Someone mentioned chocolate

Video presentations in a hour and then that's done.  Someone mentioned there'd be chocolate. Final tomorrow. Rehearsal tonight.  Need to work on action, definitely have all the lines down, have varying ideas of why I'm saying them. We have two hours to run it. Someone on the bus last night inspired me to write haiku again, but my mind's been pretty blank since I stepped off of the bus. Ride was weirder than usual.  (I no longer have the crush, but he was the best thing in the movie.)

My other two classes are full now, so definitely running. Five more weeks until I face what scares me the most. (And if I make it through that, maybe everything else will seem easier to face by comparison.) I should take some time off in July, the last two weeks I'm in class 22 hours/week (split over 5 days.)

I should have waited to eat lunch, people keep offering me food.

Ugh. So far to go. Don't know how to proceed. And I still don't know what to do for the collage. I feel like the expectations are really high, and I don't want to be lame. I am often in this same spot.

December 5, 2009

And behind the Advent Calendar Window for December 5, 2009 we find...a cream puff from beard papa's fresh and natural cream puffs (http://www.muginohousa.com/index.php). There is a choice between green tea, chocolate or vanilla filling for the puffs, I was feeling basic and had the vanilla, though I'll probably try the green tea at some future point.

They fill the cream puffs to order. The store I went to was at the Uwajimaya shopping center in the Seattle's International District. It's near the terminal southern stop of the bus tunnel, and so on the light rail run as well.

Dec 1, 2009

I saw this blog from Budget Travel by Meg Zimbeck where she made a virtual Advent Calendar of affordable treats in Paris. I decided to make a virtual Advent Calendar for treats in Seattle. I will include pictures when possible as well as website links if available.

December 1 is more decadent then affordable but today's treat is a Double-Chocolate Calimyrna fig from Fran's Chocolates. Here is a link to their website http://www.franschocolates.com/locations.phpThe retail locations are listed here. You can purchase the figs individually in the stores. I had seen these in a local magazine a while back and then tried them in the store in University Village. These are made from whole, dried Calimyrna figs, filled with a chocolate ganache and dipped in a chocolate coating. Delicious! Probably one could share. If figs aren't youre thing, there are also chocolate apricots (yum!), chocolate-covered ginger, orange peel, nuts, truffles, cups of rich hot chocolate as well as the salted-caramels they are best known for.