HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Excellent effort by all involved with the Pumpkin Carving Extravaganza of 2009

Biggest news at 48

Julie finally uploaded pictures!! Now there are pictures up of all of us from various activities early in the semester. So our photos on facebook will be chronologically out of order. Annoying.

What can't you make in the microwave?

Chelle and I recently embarked on an adventure. A culinary adventure, obviously.

Part I:


Part II:


If you aspire to make equally amazing things, here is our recipe. We've decided chocolate chips are a must, though we didn't have any at the time.

Microwave Hot Chocolate Cake:

3 Packets of hot chocolate mix
3 tbsp of flour
1 egg
3 tbsp of vegetable oil
3 tbsp of water

Grease a large mug. Pour dry ingredients into mug and combine well. Stir in the egg. Add the water and oil. Mix completely. Microwave on high for 3 minutes.

It's genius! You'll never have oreos and milk for your midnight snack again.

Brownies and Beans

After waking up to the lovely (cough, cough!) aroma of rancid beans this morning, two things had to be done:

1.) Take out the trash.

2.) Make Betty Crocker's super chunky brownies.


Also, discovered last night that after spending 3+ hours in the Orgo lab yesterday, all that was left to show for all that effort was tar. Aka "amorphous unidentifiable byproduct." But really. Tar.

Collaborative Culinary Success

Tonight a delegate from 48 Sunset joined master chef Jordy and sous-chef Chelle to partake in what was originally advertised as a tex-mex leftover extravaganza. After determining that the leftover beans smelled bad and the rice was moldy, it was decided that new food would simply have to be made. Still stuck on the tex-mex trend, the chefs began by making Jordy's world-famous pico de gallo, and by sauteing peppers and onions, essentials for any tex-mex meal. Ideas were tossed around, and finally settling on fajitas, the chefs continued on their mission. Earlier that day, Jordy had found an easy tortilla recipe, and discovering the presence of shortening in the cupboard, she exclaimed that we would make the tortillas by hand! Beehler took control over the operation, letting the final doughy product set until she recieved "the vibe". After approximately 12 minutes, the top bowl covering said dough shuttered and fell to the side! Just the sign Beehler had been waiting for!! After much rolling and heating, the tortillas were baked to perfection, and the three ladies settled in for a most satisfying meal.

For picture documentation, see food blog by messsers Wolfand and Beehler. Coming soon to urls near you.

Update: check out http://madchaotic.blogspot.com for food bloggage.

Food Seems to be all that is on Tufts Croquet Club's Collective Mind. What Fatties.

For this, my first post, I will be exploring a subject near and dear to my heart. Although many other issues of great social, political, and Tuftonial importance will be discussed, I hope to return to and continually explore this topic throughout the duration of my blogging. Without further hesitation, rumination, reiteration, alliteration, or obfuscation, I present:

WHAT'S IN BEN'S STOMACH?













Primarily, it would probably be spaghetti and meatballs at the moment. Indeed this was my rather late dinner. Additionally, this would be accompanied by a splattering of sauce (both Five Cheese and Tomato Basil). The meatballs were made by my own two hands, and while I cannot claim to have created the pasta or sauce, I did select them from myriad choices at the grocery.

Moving on, the meal was later washed down with the most appropriate of liquids available.












Yes orange juice is the pinnacle of class when it comes to drinking, and Tropicana is the pinnacle of orange juices. (Except of course
Dole, , but one can't have everything). I would have preferred pulped orange juice, though, but beggars can't be choosers, and more importantly, Anisha did the shopping this week.

Now one might expect my appetite to be satiated following such a large course of carbs and protein, but this is not at all the case. Said meal was followed shortly thereafter by the crisp cracking of an apple and the delectable crunch of chocolate covered pretzels.

After this veritable feast, I would have checked my ingestion; I am but a man however, a man who was raised on milk, and who am I to deny milk's favorite cookie. Thus, the icing on the cake of my consumption was actually the icing of an Oreo cookie.
Finally my stomach was filled, my eyelids were heavy, and my belt was loosened. And for now, that is all that is in Ben's stomach.

My life is average.

This weekend:

a) Jenna's boat hit a bridge.
b) It snowed.

Bring da heat

Heat's on for the first time at 80 Bristol!

Shockingly early in the year, but this means no more numb toes whilst studying (which can be very distracting and drive one into bed with a heating pad and "Peyton Place" and be unproductive thence forth). 

BIG SHOCKING WEATHER NEWS: Possible SNOW this Friday. Break out the parkas.

Also, today one of the books I checked out of Tisch hadn't been checked out since 1963. Guess no one pays much attention to Charles Lamb anymore. I felt obscure and righteous. 

(Wuthering Heights, Charles Lamb, Little Women: pure comfort)

Our heater makes little clinking and rushing noises, like there are mice spelunking in the vents with leaf-blowers. 

How many does it take to change a lightbulb?

Things have been super exciting lately.

Denali got a new art kit:

And made us a new painting for our kitchen (picture soon!)

We made apple brownies.


Found inventive things to do with coat hangers...


Chelle broke out the flannel.


And Ben finally got a date:


We also had a fabulous game of telephone pictionary and learned that Laura really did kill her kindergarten classmates and that evil envelopes attack trees. We've also learned a new game called calzone fencing.


And if you were wondering how many people it takes to change a light bulb, we'll let you know when it happens. So far we've gone through 4.

Epic fail.

Today Chelle and I did the crossword in Orgo Lab Lecture. We totally failed. Perhaps it will be posted in the upstairs bathroom of 80 Bristol.

Update: Denali did the entire crossword in comp sci. And refuses to get gmail.

Update update: Denali got gmail. Also, this is the fourth day running she's done the entire crossword. Oh smack.

In other news, today we are having tacos for dinner. Jenna and I discussed getting Halloween decorations for the house. Tombstones are 25% off. And leaf garlands are only $2.99. We calculated that buying three for less than $10 would give us 27 feet of garland.

This morning 80 Bristol's late night Wiki-Team had a dream colloquium.  

Laura dreamt of giving a presentation on Art History and having to pee, and Kathy Griffith said, "I should warn you, I'm going to be vulgar." Related themes? We think so.

Denali dreamt an entire Civil War History essay test. The final question was: "If you could be any book character, who would you be? OMG I would totally be Hagrid." Professor Benjamin Carp, that is a fallacy. You would be Hermione. 

Update from forty eight

We three were saddened that we couldn't join the gcal event of an outing to the Davis farmer's market. But we are exceedingly excited for Giselle on Sunday. Well, we being Emma, because Julie is doing homework that day and Emily is going home cause her dad is getting surgery for his cancer. And I just effectively ruined the upbeat mood of this post.

To get back on track...we made a delicious dinner tonight. So that's good. And note to 80 Bristol: adding paprika to garlic bread is genius, and you should all do it. I mean, people in other countries can do that too, but you're probably too busy eating haggis and drinking tea to buy some paprika.

48 out!

What happens when the clock ticks midnight.

Do you know what happens when Laura finally makes it home for the day? We're proud to say that we have uncovered the secret:

What a crazy.



Today will be filled by a many crosswords, word jumbles, and the pending drama of whether or not Professor Stolow will still be standing by the end of lecture.

Tea Time

Jenna made some tea. But then she forgot about it. Don't you hate when that happens?