a few winter pictures

Homo marcus in the wild

How does the future look?

Hey all,
I haven't posted anything in a while, so I thought that I may as well.
So, what's going on in my life? I'm going to Virginia after Christmas to have a Christmas party with Jenny and Elena. That should be really fun; it's been a long time since we've all three been together. From there I'm going straight back to school.
Next term I'm going to be taking Drawing 310, Human and Animal Relations (Bio 297?), and Modern Philosophy: Kant through Nietzsche (Phil 303). It should be pretty fun, though the philosophy class may be a little dry. I'm sick and tired of Nietzsche! I've already studied him at least three times in three seperate classes, and let me tell you, he's a complete pig!
Other than that, I haven't got too much planned for the immediate future. We'll see how things turn out. Until then, take care and much love!

delecious cookies

This makes delicious shortbread cookies. Pure butter. yum. I got these from the NYT magazine a few years ago, so I've had to translate into normal ingredients from their bizarre foodieisms ("high-fat plugrà butter to butter, or virgin fine ground sea salt from Jupiter's moon europa to salt...)
sablés
2 sticks butter
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup conf sugar
1/2 tsp (sea) salt
2 egg yolks at room temp
2 cups flour
(optional decoration: 1 egg yolk, crystal sugar)
cream butter, sugar, salt, beat in egg yolks until blended. Add flour with minimum of mixing. dump dough on surface, gather into two balls. Shape into smooth logs 9 in long, wrap in plastic wrap and chill for at least two hours.
preheat to 350, brush egg yolk and sprinkle with sugar. slice into 1/3 inch cookies. bake for 17-20 min. (you can add lemon zest to the dough with the sugar, if you want)
the GOOD ones - chocolate sablés
1 1/4 cups flour
1/3 cup dutch cocoa powder
1/2 tsp b soda
1 stick + 3 thbs butter, room temp
2/3 cup packed brn sug
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp vanila
5 ounces chopped chocolate or chips
sift flour, b soda, cocoa, together. cream butter, add sugar salt vanilla, beat. mix in dry ingrds as liitle as poss, toss in choc, mix. make two logs 1 1/2 in diam. wrap and fridge for at least 1 hour. heat ovn 350 - slice 1/2 in rounds ( I rolled the logs in sugar - can't have too much!) bake 1 sheet at a time for 12 minutes on center rack.

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