Seasonal Birthdays

The Culinary: So much seasonal baking going on! Three birthdays this week (Susa and Sam on Monday, Margaret today). These are pumpkin cupcakes Margaret, Cat and I made. There was also an apple cake a week or so ago, an icebox cake and currently chocolate pumpkin cheesecake bars and a LOT of pumpkin puree (one pumpkin worth, to be exact), not-yet-toasted seeds and some stir-fry. Also, Margaret's brother and his girlfriend came, and they are teaching us to make bread. yum.









General: I got a new skirt this week, and helped carve a pumpkin. Also, Susa's mom sent her Halloween candy, so now we are all dying from too much sugar. The pumkin below was done by Dylan, who is a PC in one of the toasters. Also finally fixed my bike :), with help from Eames, who I took L&T with and is part of the bike co-op. It had so many things wrong with it. First the tube was flat in the back one. Which he had already tried to replace before but it had popped. And then upon trying to pump up the front one turned out that my tire was so frayed that it wouldn't hold in the front tube which then nearly popped. But now it functions, is a bit cleaner (not perfect but at least ride-able).

Dream: I had a dream and in it...Adrienne and Chris were studying on Adrienne's bed and I was on mine, and Angela came in and we fought about work study forms. (I don't know why, probably because I haven't filled mine out and she's the authority figure here)
And then I went to a college with a lot of kids from my high-school, and we were at the beginning of sophomore year and excited to be choosing were to live in terms of dorms, and all ended up on the same side of one building, by a big cozy dining area with wood paneling that looked a tiny bit like Manor. Meera and NiNi and her siblings were in it mostly.
And then Anna from Paris did this..dance? on a horse, with a whip. And the morning was Islamic themed, but I couldn't tell the difference and other people were upset. And my family was there and the food was cold.
But this is the best part:
I was reading an autobiography. I was reading the words and it was in English but translated.
The woman writing it was raised by a male gay couple in Luxenberg at a time when it was weak (either in power, or it was in strife). I knew they were Jewish because they made her wear a yamakah, it was green and she didn't find it comfortable. They were divorced now, but she was telling a story of their youth, when they were young professors, how they would take the maple-tree pods and put them on apples in the fall, giving them wings. There was a photo in the book, endless yellow leaves and endless apples.
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When I woke up I realized apples and maple seed pods are not from the same season, which upset me because I wanted to go out the give apples wings.