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I've been doing a great deal of thinking about my plans for the future. I still want to transfer to a different school. In fact, I'd still really love to go to the Art Insitute. So I thought, if I wait until I'm 24, by then my lease will have run out, and for the purposes of Financial Aide I will finally be an independent, and I don't care if I don't have any dependents, I defy the federal government to tell me I can afford the 40,000 dollars it will take to finish my degree there, when I don't even earn half that in a single year. So, that's development number one.

Development number two is, I'm switching my major to Pastry. Yup. From what I've seen, I think I'd like that a lot better, and I really do love baking. I still can't make brownies for the life of me, but cookies and cakes and breads, I can do. Thankfully I came to this decision while it's still early enough that it won't make difficulties, such as right before graduation...

On to The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore!

The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore

Nothing evokes the spirit of Christmas like murder, one night stands, and zombies! God has sent an angel to Earth to grant a Christmas wish. The angel, who is none too bright, grants the wish of a little boy named Joshua, who witnessed a woman murder her ex husband while he was in a Santa costume. Joshua wants Santa to come back to life so that Christmas goes forward as usual, so the angel resurrects the dead santa, as well as all the other dead occupants of the town, who suddenly and inexplicably have a craving for brains.

I know

aurillia has already read a Chris Moore book, so she knows what I mean when I say that the man if fucking funny. He has a great sense of irony, and the book is peppered with random pop culture references and profanity, and well, it's just great.

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I think you are making the right decision. Go where you want and receive the education you deserve...screw the debt!

Oh and pastries...MmmmmmMmmmmmmMMMMmmmmmm! That's all I have to say about that!

Also, thanks for updating me on yet another book I must read. You cannot talk about zombies and not expect me to jump in there and buy the damned book!

It was when we were working with chocolate that I really began thinking about switching...I mean, the culinary part, as an abstraction, is interesting, but working on the line sucks! It's hot and hectic and you really don't get to be creative; you do what the executive chef tells you to do, and maybe once in a while you'll get to do a special. Whereas the pastry people pretty much get left to themselves to come up with pretty deserts. Most people in the culinary side don't want anything to do with pastry, and vice versa (my friend says she doesn't like to fondle meat--she makes it sound so dirty!), but I've always liked and appreciated both.

You cannot talk about zombies and not expect me to jump in there and buy the damned book!

Which is the entire point of writing a review about it, silly!

Well your love of meat and pastry may serve you well in the future. I think your program sounds simply fascinating, and I'm sort of jealous of you...although I'd NEVER give up teaching to do anything else!

Oh and yeah, I know you want to get other people to buy the book, but it is simply torture for me...I don't have time to read right now.

I do know the feeling, wanting to stay up late at night digging into a novel, but knowing that it's not the most intelligent thing to do...

But hey, cooking is a fantastic hobby, too. There are a couple of retired people in the program who are just doing for the fun of it. I use "fun" in the loosest sense of the word. It is sometimes, but it really is a hell of a lot of work too. (Log book ick ick. I still think it's fucking stupid to have log books when every other profession has you work a semester long internship, and then gives you an evaluation, as opposed to this year long crap.)

But cooking is fun for me, so I can understand how keeping a log would suck...but the cookign itself is amazing. I made a giant crockpot of chili the other night...I never make it the same way twice...and it was amazing.

The past couple of nights, I've been watching 30 Rock before bed. I really love Tina Fey.

Yeah, I pretty much agree with everything

impeccablesimon said. It's your life, so you may as well do what you want to do.

Ditto to the mmmm pastries.

And to the zombies. A Christmas zombie book? You had me at the first sentence. I'm going to the bookshop tomorrow, and hopefully there might be a copy.

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It's just at a certain point I was so frustrated I no longer cared which program I went to, as long I was in a program. But this whole thing has been a huge learning experience, and I'm actually glad things happened this way.

Bah! Stupid Borders does not have the book. I'm going on a bookshop hunt tomorrow. Hahahahar.

Moore is wickedly clever! I haven't seen this edition before but I think I know of it - it's the same angel who was in Lamb, someone told me. They recommended it too but I forgot about it. It's going on the list!

I'd love to be skilled at bakery stuff - I can only do simple things, sadly. Pastries - have to echo Michael: Mmmmmmm Mmmmmm Mmmmmm!! Does that mean you have to start all over again? I'm guessing not but I'm a little confused. Your degree - what you've already done - is transferable yes? You're continuing on with this degree at this school?

I am planning on retaking everything. Basically I haven't really learned anything, the success (or lack thereof) of Monday night service is based on skills I already had, and the few students who have been in the industry and are just now getting a formal education. Any reasonably intelligent person can follow a recipe; I didn't need to go to all the trouble and expense of moving down here for this shit. There are still people who want me to stay here, and say things like, well you're only paying for the name, blah blah. The thing is I am also paying for a real education, and yeah, the name. Names open doors. If I'm applying for a job and one of my competitors is a graduate of the CIA or Johnson and Wales, and here's me with my little A.S. from GCCI, all other things equal, who's gonna get the job? Maybe if I was planning on staying in the area it wouldn't make much difference, but I'm not. And anyway I want to go ahead and get the B.A., and AI is the only other place that offers one.