I've found it!It comes from a little bakery down near the central Cumbayá plaza called "Cassolette". OMG. It doesn't feel fattening or have a lot of sugar but is still incredibly creamy and delicious. The crust is perfect too, sturdy enough to stick to the cheesecake but crumbly and moist. And it can come with fruit on top. So far, I've only tried the one with blackberries on top and the one with passion fruit on top. I think I like the blackberry one better to be honest. Mmmmm. Cheesecake. It is the only kind of cake I like (I hate cake) and even...
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Thursday, July 29, 2010
I finally got a cat! Yay! She's almost two months old and her name is Luna.Naming her was a huge debate between my dad, my mom, and me. Originally I intended to call her Andromeda, but mom thought that was too long. So mom and I named her Frejya. Unfortunately my dad didn't like that one so we went through a name database and shortened it down to Eowyn, Ariel, Lillith, Norah, and Luna. She was actually named Eowyn for about 5 minutes before my dad...
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
So, I've decided to have a playlist post every so often of the songs I'm currently listening to. I just listen to an eclectic variety of music, so I thought I'd share. It changes a lot with my mood and with what I'm doing since I usually listen to music when I'm working or trying to write. So here goes!Playlist One:(1) "Time" (Hans Zimmer) from the Inception soundtrack - So I haven't actually seen Inception yet, but I'm really dying to see it. It won't be out here in Quito for another 2 or 3 weeks, so that's a little irritating. Anyways, the track...
So I've been in a funk basically since I left college. For many many reasons that only my closest friends are privy to and that I don't want to go into detail in this blog. A few days ago someone told me something very true about one of these things that I didn't want to admit to myself. They told me, E, you don't need this, you want this very much. And if you stop tricking yourself into thinking that you need it, things will fall back into place and be where you want them to be. And they were right. I did some meditation yesterday to spiritually...
Sunday, July 25, 2010
My Favorites:(1) Films: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Garden State(2) Directors: Christopher Nolan, Wong Kar-Wai, Zhang Yimou(3) Cities: Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Qingdao, China(4) Books: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, anything by Roald Dahl, The Daodejing, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Ficciones, Aura, Paradise Lost.(5) Writers: Roald Dahl, Jorge Luis Borges(6) Food: As much of a foodie as I am, there really is nothing better than a good grilled cheese sandwich.(7) Drink: Coffee...
So I went to this 4-year high school reunion thing last night because my friend W made me. My High School classmates spent the evening trying to get me drunk, I spent the evening giving inspirational speeches to them when they came over to tell me about their life struggles. I don't quite know how I feel about that. Anyways, my pants broke somewhere around 2 in the morning but W and Q (who was also there because W made her) insisted that I stay longer. Luckily, my sweater thing was one of those long cardigans that covered up the burst seams. Also,...
Friday, July 23, 2010
Today is July 23, 2010. It has been exactly two months since I graduated from that " highly selective, residential, liberal arts college located in the heart of the Hudson Valley in New York State" and one month since I finally set foot back in Ecuadorian soil for the first time in six months. At the risk of sounding really cliched - tempus fugit, eh? The weird thing is that graduation also seems like forever ago. I think that's because I've been keeping very busy these past two months and particularly the last few weeks. Putting together budgets...
Thursday, July 22, 2010
I'm feeling somewhat nostalgic today. I was reading J and D's blogs and it got me thinking about how much I miss being up in the Hudson Valley. Quito (and Ecuador) is really a beautiful place, somewhere that is definitely worth visiting at least once in your life. I love the mountains here. I missed them while I was abroad. But I think I like the landscape of the Hudson Valley more in general. I miss the trees and the creeks that run through campus. And the ducks. And the heron that lived in the woods behind our house. I wish I had been brave enough...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
A few hours ago, as I took a break from writing a very lengthy business plan for a film project I'm working on, two of my family's dogs (Danny and Maggie - short for Daniel and Magdalena) walked into the dining room where I was working and decided to be cute so I took some pictures. They look especially cute and fluffy today because they were taken to the groomers where they were bathed and dried. Danny in particular looks like a big fluffball.They're...
Hi!So, I'm new to the whole blogging thing. Well, I tried it once and it didn't quite pan out very well mostly because I started right before I went to a really intensive language program in Qingdao, China in the summer of 2008 and the program kinda left me with no free time and then I forgot altogether because of the amount of work I had to do junior year of college. But now that I graduated, and am sort of on my own schedule (I'm self-employed), I figure that I should at least try. I recently was told that a good friend of mine had also started...
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
I graduated two months ago (say it isn't so!) from a "highly selective, residential, liberal arts college located in the heart of the Hudson Valley in New York State" (anyone want to take a guess at that one?) and, like most of us unfortunate members of the class of 2010 of any college found myself jobless and adrift in the world. I made my way to Amsterdam to visit my aunt for a while, hoping to find some bearings. I sat in the Leidseplein, drank...
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