Day #1. I've wanted to do this for years now, and it's finally here. My very own blog. Hip hip hooray! Why, you ask, did it take me this long? Why did I never just sign up and start posting? Nothing was ever so simple--a little thing called graduate school. Recently I made the freeing decision to leave my Ph.D. program. Now I like science every bit as much as the next crazed graduate student, but I came to realize that God just wasn't jiving with what I was doing with my life, making for an extremely miserable me. While I wallowed in my misery, one thing that sustained me was my list of food blogs. Each day at lunch I would check for updates, hoping for a fantastic curry, a new soup, or a better way to bake GF bread. Such savory tidbits kept me going (and got me funny looks from my office mates). I never had the time to try my new arsenal of recipes, but that never stopped me from talking about them, dreaming about them.

So while I finish my M.S. in Chemistry, this blog will be my therapy, my figurative story board where friends and family, ideas for the future, and pots and pans, in all their multi-colored felt glory, will be moved around until they form the combination that "feels" right. In the meantime I plan to cook up a storm (I just bought my first bags of millet flour and almond meal!), marvel at the blanket of snow outside, learn about methods of polymer synthesis, and search for jobs.