Tonight I'll be going to see Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food and The Omnivore's Dillema, at the Strathmore in Maryland. I will be attending with my mother after a dinner, and I will be bringing a notebook and my camera. If possible, I will try to take notes and/or video of the lecture. I'm extrememly excited.
Today I managed to bring in my main reference book, On Food And Cooking: The Science And Lore of the Kitchen, and I will be keeping it here along with my other to encyclopedic volumes. I'm slowly buiding a library. c: I'm considering bringing in my copy of Salt and a couple other books, but not sure I want to keep them here where they're not locked up.
I still need to bring in the transfer chip for my camera, but then I can start to move over pictures and build larger posts and tutorials. I still need something to present, so I'm going to try and write up in a more colloquial way starting tomorrow. For now I will be making a list of movies and books I'd like to read and see. I've already submitted a list of movies to our tech people at the school so that I might be authorized to stream them via Netflix during school hours. Otherwise I will see if I can get copies through the public library and watch them on the school computers.
Will not be here Friday, as I will be leaving school early to make the trip down to Charlotte, NC, to visit Johnson & Wales's campus there. Hopefully at that time or before I'll find out whether or not I've been accepted. JWU is my top school and I really really really really want to go there to study food. Though I'm not yet sure if I want to work practicals or theory (kitchen versus office) I know I want to study there because they have very good programs on all of their campuses. Ideally I'd be at Miami, but if Charlotte looks good I might go there because it's closer to home and family. There's also a fairly large lesbian population nearby, which would be a great support to me.
15 minutes left in my day before I leave, so I will wrap up by saying that I feel that I am finally starting to make progress on this. I have gathered a lot of information and I'm looking forward to being able to articulate my thoughts in a way that I can share with other people. I really hope that I can turn this into something as interesting for other peopel as it is for me.
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