I love this song. It's so good. I just wanna dance every time I listen to it. Why is Latin music so good? Makes me dream of summer. I don't want to write this research paper, I just wanna go have a bonfire on a beach with tiki lamps and listen to this song and salsa dance.

Emily and I made our avocado pasta yesterday and it was so good. And so easy! Also made some edamame mmm.

Avocados and Midterms

So along with beets and goat cheese, avocados have been added to my list of current food obsessions. I was looking at foodgawker per usual and saw this recipe for avocado pasta which sounded amazing to me. Why have I never thought of this before? Avocado is good on everything! So Emily and I are going to make some pasta this weekend. This was on Monday though, and Saturday seemed like too long a time to wait for smooth green deliciousness, so on Tuesday I went to the co-op to buy some avocados! I got two and I just had one spread on a toasted wheat bagel for dinner YUM. Yup, I brought my own avocado to the dining hall, no big deal. Also picked up some delish organic mint dark choc.

Anyways so this weekend is midterm break (aka we get Monday off, woohoo...) which is much needed, but unfortunately all of my profs decided to assign stuff for tomorrow, so I'm currently writing this blog post instead of studying for my religion midterm and writing my deconstructive essay on Murakami's Sleep. Good job me! Definitely looking forward to being done tomorrow afternoon. Still got lots to do though!

I've been looking through old pictures and realized today that exactly one year ago I was starting my self-portrait for my painting class! I remember Natalie and I going outside on a freezing cold/rainy day and her taking pictures of me to try and find one to use for the painting.

Also stumbled across this treasure

Miss ya so much Costling! Gotta head back to Europa.

Waltz

April 22

Cupcakes!

Irish Car Bomb cupcakes for St. Patty's day! Guinness chocolate cake, Irish whiskey-infused chocolate ganache filling, and bailey's frosting :D

India Round 2: Kerala Edition

So I'm trying to start up this blog again because I think I'm going to delete my facebook.  I've been thinking about it for awhile, and have deleted it on and off, but I think it's time to get rid of it for good (at least until graduation when I freak out about losing touch with everyone).  It's just such a waste of time, and I feel that it's a poor substitute for real, genuine human interaction (at least in my case).  It's sort of sad because I will inevitably lose touch with some people, but those relationships probably weren't real in the first place right?

This summer I am heading back to India! This time I am heading to South India, primarily Kerala, to follow the path of the artist that I researched in the fall (Amrita Sher-Gil).  I will visit the same sights that she went to on her own tour of the South and record my experiences through painting and drawing along the way.  I am thrilled to be going back, but also a little nervous since I will be traveling completely by myself this time.  Also it will be monsoon season in Kerala, so it should be interesting trying to deal with all the heavy rain...but it's an amazing opportunity and I know it will be an amazing trip.  Hopefully I'll do a lot of drawings and meet a lot of new people!

This term is going by so quickly.  Tomorrow is the beginning of fourth week, so crazy! So much Chinese to do.  I've been keeping up with my usual distraction of food blogs, and my latest obsession is anything and everything with beets and goat cheese (like this). Yummmm.

Also, I have a radio show from 11AM-12noon on Tuesdays (Minnesota time--aka 12-1PM east coast, 9AM-10 west coast). Listen to The Merry Troubadour here!