Category: Everyday Life
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Lately
This week our Chef de Cuisine, Anthony, left us to go back to his hometown of NYC. I miss him already. Incidentally, this is what happens when you take one too many photos of a chef at work. One benefit of working in a restaurant is this: every now and then (rarely, unfortunately), there is…
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Hooray!
Errbody! I was so excited today to see this lovely review of my second book in the Austin Chronicle food issue! I didn’t even know it would be featured, and there it is just makin’ me proud. I was giddy and giggly for quite some time this morning. I have lots of other news, I’m…
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Things I’ve been doing
I’m trying to catch up with life. I just started a full-time job, and it’s very different for me! I’m used to working here and there on different projects. Now I am the full-time Director of Operations (or, as we like to say in-house, Chief of Stuff) for Foreign & Domestic. Hooray! It’s pretty awesome…
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Life in photos
I got a new phone! Well, my old phone was broken, and the little power button wouldn’t work, and also it wouldn’t hold a charge for very long, and hey! I got a new phone! And it comes with this nifty 8-megapixel camera, which makes me happy. I haven’t been lugging around my dSLR lately,…
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In my head
Lately my head has been super-full. Ironically, it’s full of things like, “I should meditate to clear my mind. I should practice yoga. I should eat well and exercise and be a better person and yada yada.” Do you ever have these thoughts, throughout the day? And late at night when all you want to…