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…for all you n00bs out there…

;-)

All I’m saying is, no one should ever do this. Ever. There’s just something unnatural about it, like that time they shipped an elephant embryo overseas by putting it inside a rabbit. Or something. I mean I know we live in a free & democratic society, but take some freaking responsibility, people.

Everything in public education is jury rigged.  The difference between my school and most traditional high schools is that in traditional schools, it’s the important stuff that’s jury rigged.

Old & busted = cars that parallel park on their own

New hotness = cars that do EVERYTHING on their own

…driving home from the city on 280 between 4:30 & 5:30 am. It was pitch black when I left at 4:45, & by the time I got home at 5:15 I didn’t even need headlights. At about 5:00 am the reservoir was absolutely gorgeous.

Off my balcony, 5:15 am

“We broke up 2 months ago!”

“That doesn’t mean we can’t still go out.”

“It does, actually. That’s what breaking up is.”

~ Wayne’s World

[This is a good one to memorize. Seriously.]

I would like you to know that this past weekend, I made pizza for the first time, and it was really easy! That means you can do it too, if you want.

Step 1: Wake up with a craving for pizza.

Step 2: Feel disenchanted by the caliber of pizza options readily available to you.

Step 3: Go to the grocery store, and buy a pizza crust (whole wheat, because it makes my blood sugar happy).

Step 4: Buy lots of mozzarella cheese.

Step 5: Go to the produce department (and meat department, if that’s what shines your boot-heels), and think about what you want to be on the pizza. (That’s the best part of making it yourself.)

Step 6: Buy all those things too.

Step 7: Feel happy you have one of those baking sheets with holes in the bottom, for cooking the bottom better.

Step 8: Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.

Step 9: Put spaghetti sauce all over the crust. (In retrospect, it seems that spaghetti sauce really isn’t ideal, and it might be better to use something a little thicker.)

Step 10: Cheese.

Step 11: Some toppings.

Step 12: Cheese

Step 13: More cheese.

Step 14: Bake for 10 minutes.

Step 15: More cheese.

Step 16: Bake for 5 more minutes.

Step 17: Enjoy!

So yeah. Easy, fast, and good. If you’re high-falutin’, I suppose you could make your own crust and sauce, but I think you take my point.