Jo wrote about her interests this week. I am interested in way too many things, which makes it hard to focus on any one for very long. I do bake break every week. Bread baking has begun to become more intriguing and less successful lately, as I have been experimenting with refrigerated dough that has a lot more yeast than the no-knead, unrefrigerated dough I usually make. I think baking in the cast iron dutch oven is the trick, but I’ll have to write a whole blog entry on this topic to do it justice. Stay tuned for my sad tale of the search for bread nirvana. I also like baking muffins and cupcakes. Who doesn’t love cupcakes? I think they’re really for adults and not kids—what adult doesn’t smile when given a cupcake with pretty frosting on top? I ate one from a bakery at Findlay Market a couple of weeks ago, chocolate with chocolate ganache and white chocolate shavings. It was bliss and felt so decadent. It’s perfect little size made me feel it was just for me, and guilt-free!
Origami—I took that up a few years ago when I needed a little frustration (just kidding!). I made my first trip to NYC last June to go to the Origami USA Convention, something I had wanted to do for years. It’s amazing what people can do with paper. I added a link to my flickr page on the blog (Uploads by bsktlisa), so you can see some of my work and the work done by my flickr contacts—its really amazing how creative people are.
Other interests—well, we already wrote about reading, and I just finished Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Wall, and The Help by Kathryn Stockett, both of which I recommend. They could probably be called historical fiction.
I love to be outdoors. A dream come true would be going to Washington State this summer and going hiking in the Cascades. I also enjoy taking pictures, and will try to post a photo I took last year that I really like. I like to get together with girlfriends and try to get my 7,000 words per day in (isn’t that how many words women supposedly say in a day?). I like medical blogs, medical journals, medical shows, and crime shows (what is it with crime shows?!). I like dogs and would really like to get my very own dog. I was going to steal Boone from Jodi but he’d miss Wrigs and Sid. My friend Melanie said she’d give me one of her dogs, Chewie, if I’d take the other one too. I’m frowning, and dogless so far.
I like working with students (pharmacy students are usually the victims of my enthusiasm). I like teaching, which I like to do as a collaboration and not just lecturing. One of my hobbies is rubber stamping, and I used to be a demonstrator for one of the rubber stamp companies. I didn’t really care much for selling stuff, what I liked about it was sharing stamping with others. If I designed a card and precut the materials for 12 people to make the card, each person came out with something different. It was really fun to see how creative people are, and how some will follow the instructions exactly, others not at all, and there are lots of cool ideas that get shared. On that note, I am really stuck on adhesives for papercrafts. Give me a coupon for Michael’s crafts and turn me lose in the adhesives aisle, and good luck getting me unglued. I like glue dots, glue sticks, the puffy self-stick circles that add space between layers, the Hermafix variotabs (little flat squares, my favorite), and the liquid glue with the tiny applicator tip. I love yarn, the beautiful colors and all the textures, especially the soft, fluffy baby yarns. There are some really cute ponchos for little girls, I know because I made several for my 3 nieces a few years ago. A great crochet project helps pass the time on an airplane. Enough of my interests for now, what are yours?
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