"I Told You I Was Trouble."

On Blast: Amy Winehouse - "You Know I'm No Good."

I think I'm watching too much E! Entertainment Television.  It first started with me always watching Chelsea Lately every night, but as the days went on, I just kept the TV on.  Now I think it's a problem, I've woken up to The Soup, kept it on through the True Hollywood Story: Eva Longoria Parker, and now I'm going to continue through watching a rerun of Keeping Up With The Kardashians... and I hate to admit it, I've probably seen every episode of Keeping Up With The Kardasians... twelve times.

I suppose the rational choice is just to turn it off, but I can't.  Khloe Kardashian is currently trying to get back into her DUI class!  Err, I mean, yeah I should turn it off.  I am no longer tickled by other channels I used to like, for example, The Food Network.  I suppose ever since I jumped into the culinary industry, having my life revolve around food 24/7 is a little too much for me.  Ever since I started culinary school, I've been exposed to many people who's lives solely orbit food and everything about it, which I find pretty boring.  I like having the multi-faceted aspect and I indulge in exposing myself with people who are the same. 

 I mean, I don't hate it when people really love the food industry, but when I enter a room and people either find out I'm a chef-in-training or something and start bringing up some foodie crap, I don't really know what to say.  I mean, for God's sake, I have no shame in eating Spaghettios or $0.29 ramen in front of my chef instructor and my peers... 

We're in a recession people.  I'm not the fanciest girl in the kitchen, I love making pretty things but I don't indulge in eating it all the time.

When I get home from class, I usually just find something in the fridge (even if it's been there for ages) and just eat it.  My guilty pleasure has gone full circle back to my first potato love, criss-cut fries from Carl's Jr.  Whenever my culinary classmate friends and I decide to walk to the Carl's Jr., we mostly eat it outside in the smoker's area instead of inside... maybe it's shame, maybe it's just that we like the sunshine.

Anyway, it's Saturday, and I don't know what my plans are.  I might persuade my mom to go outfit shipping with me for my 21st birthday next week but she's acting like a homebody today.  Ann C. is home from Santa Barbara so hanging out might happen, but I haven't received word from her yet.  Tomorrow is my grandmother's first posthumous birthday so I'm probably heading up to Sacramento to jam out on the cemetery lawn and eat sketchy Filipino food.  

For the record, Keeping Up With The Kardashians is STILL on.  I have made no progress.

-KJ.

"I'm Living Without You."

On Blast: Garbage - "Special"

Yes, I know I keep deleting blog posts all the time but I think I should start fresh. I'm still without a laptop but HOPEFULLY I'll get one for my 21st birthday... but we'll see though, recession sucks, unemployment sucks, paying for culinary school sucks.

But other than that, things are relatively peachy. Only petty things to complain about but I usually refrain from doing so. I mean I'll slip up (most likely on this blog) but whatever, it's cool. Among the petty things, I miss San Francisco and everyone I left behind there. I visited the City a few weeks ago and it really made me miss everything even more.

Anyway, I'm exhausted--culinary school sent me out to a bakery in Castroville around 3am-8am, I was very pessimistic about the experience upon waking at 2am but the bakery was so much fun. The owner, Claudio, was probably the chillest guy ever and shared his recipes with whoever asked.

Yadda yadda yadda, I'll try to keep this updated but right now I'm pretty boring.
-KJ.