http://recipitation.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 25 Jul 2009 03:42:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Summer months, redolant with humidity and mosquitoes, occasionally require a bit of indulgence. In my husband's imagination, this indulgence expresses itself in the sleek lines of a grill. You've reached financial bliss when you have a grill, and our grill-less state indicates otherwise.  Of course, the reality of a small NYC ... http://recipitation.com/?p=305 Undoubtedly, the trollbots who read this blog have noticed a lack of posts about my consumption. Why? A breather of sorts. Lucky grad student that I am, I find myself employed in a summer job that pays almost as much in three months as an entire year of graduate stipendship. ... http://recipitation.com/?p=303 Today I thought I knew what I would do. But it didn't work out that way--the needed camera necessary for a trip to the NY Historical Society was hidden somewhere unknown, and with time ticking away, I found my plans unwound into a messy tangle. Lunch, then, would not arrive with ... http://recipitation.com/?p=295 Image from stickers and donuts. My one shopping moment of note, this entire semester (if we don't count the trip up the Swiss mountain), happened late one Wednesday evening, after a three-day marathon of paper writing. I rewarded myself by indulging in a bit an imaginary reality by purchasing two ... http://recipitation.com/?p=287 April 14th, 2009. The mad, final push to finish filling out my federal and (two) state income tax forms. I finish. Submit. It gets rejected for my husband typing in his ss# incorrectly.  Funny, in that he cannot recall the number assisgned to identify him. All in all, we "broke even" ... http://recipitation.com/?p=285 I left a day earlier than my husband for our spring break family reunion, all the result of spending an 8 hour layover in London. I have a college friend who now lives outside London, and we arranged to meet at Paddington station. So my first expense of the trip ... http://recipitation.com/?p=280 I've spent a lot of mental money this week. My closet? 90% donated to clothing recycling, 10% retained, and off on a second-hand store spree. Thanks to graduate student finances, and a pile of papers all due on the same day, I have exhibited great restraint. That restraint is ... http://recipitation.com/?p=278 It's official. My record keeping is a mess. While cleaning today, instead of paper writing (the ultimate avoidance technique as the house always needs cleaning), I came across a receipt that I don't want to lose. It's not for much, a total of $8.33 (cash) spent on a pound of strawberries, ... http://recipitation.com/?p=274 Expenditures: $20 (cash) on food at Momofuku with a group of fellow food studies grads, one prof and a visitor whose name I do not recall, but has recently published a book on Bengli food. My mental discussion of this expenditure eerily resembles a previous post (What happens if you ... http://recipitation.com/?p=260 $2.75 (cash) on a slice of pizza from the campus eatery, because I failed to pack lunch, and knew that if I did not eat something, I would find myself a raging mess of emotion and headache in a matter of hours. $11.81 (cash) at Atlantic Fruit and Vegetable on dinner ... http://recipitation.com/?p=266