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Thanksgiving Disasters, via NYTimes.com

Your Thanksgiving won't be as bad as the guy who fought someone in the process of robbing his car on the Upper West Side...I promise.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/22/its-thanksgiving-were-doomed/

Get Your Thanksgiving Pants Ready!

Why be uncomfortable on a holiday that revolves around food?

Harry Potter Cast Learns to Speak American

So glad I grew up in the Harry Potter generation.

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Back to the Blog

I seem to follow a pattern of blogging for a few months and then stopping completely...and then starting again...and stopping again. But I'm starting again (again) and this time I'm going to try to keep up with it. Let's see how that goes.

To get back in the swing of this, I'll share some pretty autumn pictures I've taken recently:

West Broadway

East Hampton

Also, a word about Glee. It's been pretty bad lately, but I liked last week's Gwenyth Paltrow episode. Watch these two clips and tell me if there's anything she can't do.

Strawberry Bread

Yummy - followed this recipe exactly and it turned out great!

Recipe:
2 eggs
1/4 cup plain yogurt
1/4 cup vegetable oil
2 tsp pure vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups white whole wheat flour
2/3 cup sugar
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 cups fresh diced strawberries

Preheat the oven to 350 F and grease an 8 x 4″ loaf pan.
Whisk together the flour, sugar, baking soda, salt and baking powder in a large bowl.
In a separate bowl, beat the eggs until the evenly yellow (but not frothy). Stir in the yogurt, oil, and vanilla and stir until evenly mixed. Pour into the dry ingredients and mix until there are no longer traces of flour. Gently fold in the strawberries, then pour into the prepared pan.
Bake for about 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then run a sharp knife around the bread and turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely before slicing.

Vassar Graduation

I became a Vassar College graduate exactly one week ago...and it's still sinking in! Here are some highlights from graduation. It was a beautiful day; rain was predicted but never came. It was warm but there was cloud cover, which was nice for us in our big black robes, and the sun broke through the clouds a few times during the ceremony. It was held on a hill on campus that overlooks a lake, so it was a really beautiful setting.

Lisa Kudrow, Vassar Class of '85, was our commencement speaker. Her speech was really interesting - if you feel like watching it, go here and fast forward to around 78 minutes in.

Meryl Streep (class of '74) is on the Board of Trustees, so she was also in attendance. She's sitting on the far right in this photo, with the blue drape over her shoulders. Click on the photo to make it bigger and check out her awesome heels!

Senior class marching to the hill.

My Italian professors in their academic garb.

Ty, future Vassar student, class of 2031!

Ty's picture even made it onto the Vassar website, since he looked so dashing in his Vassar t-shirt - go to http://commencement.vassar.edu/ and click on picture #27!