Category: Food
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Quarantine Day 62
I\’ve been eating extremely well, which is one of the bright spots amid the general quarantine gloom. This helps both me and the local restaurants, so I don\’t feel too bad about going out because I want these places to still be around when we reopen. Taiwanese popcorn chicken was one of the first things…
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Quarantine Day 27
Well, here we are. It\’s been 27 days since the office shut down, 21 days since my last post, 12 days since Maryland was ordered to shelter in place, and 10 days since I last wore shoes. Today it occurred to me to mark the first day of quarantine in my work planner, you know,…
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Life Goes On
Welcome to adulthood. You get excited now when you use your day off to buy a new keyboard and go to the Korean market. That keyboard was not cheap!!! ?? Unfortunately I really needed a keyboard with a number pad, which makes life a lot more pleasant, and even more unfortunately my new computer did…
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I Went Out and Didn\’t Die
恭喜發財!!! It\’s the year of the rat, and with any luck we can treat this as the official start of the year instead of January 1, because my year began well enough and then started sloping gently downhill after the first week. 2020 hasn\’t been particularly convincing so far, but the year of the rat…
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Karo Dreams of Noodles
It\’s been a bizarre couple of weeks. First there was the week before last, which produced the worst Wednesday I\’ve ever had. Then there was last week, which was generally all right but contained an unpleasant surprise. Then there was this week, which actually was fairly normal but also made me dream about two equally…
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Karo is a Peasant
It all started with Getty Images. I was shopping through Colonial Williamsburg stock photos for a work project and completely minding my own business when I started to think, These are really nice photos. Never mind that the last time I went to Williamsburg I was in fifth grade and Completely UninterestedTM in American history. I…
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Pad See Ew
I\’ve finally conquered rice noodles. The first time I tried to cook dried rice noodles I was very very new to the noodle game, which means that what eventually came out of my wok was a solid mass of noodle-shaped objects. It was like chewing a carpet. Cue three- to five-year montage of me rolling…
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Awesome Con 2019
Don\’t talk to me about season 8 also LITERALLY NOBODY BETTER COME FOR MY SWEET BABY I WILL MURDER THE FIRST PERSON WHO TRIES TO SPEAR HIM (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ In other news, I went to Awesome Con! I wasn\’t planning to, but my friend Heather was curious and neither of us had ever been to a…
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So Over April
Spring has come to Maryland and apparently this is a good thing? I can\’t speak for everybody else, but tbh I\’m pretty over it because we\’re right smack in the middle of The Pollening and everyone\’s been sneezing their brains out. The good news is that cute Easter rings arrived in the bakery at work:…
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Kitty Paws
After five(ish) years with a 5S, I finally upgraded my phone! Okay so technically that\’s not accurate: I did upgrade somewhere around 2016, but literally only to swap my 16GB 5S for a 32GB 5S. (Seriously, that was the reason.) There\’s a number of reasons I\’ve been resisting everything past the fifth-gen iPhones, including (1)…