I’ve been a bad blogger, I know. I’m going to try to get back on the horse. The World Cup and a sudden heat wave in Paris zapped my motivation. Here’s my update:

1) I feel like I’m in basic all over again. It’s not that were doing anything difficult, but I am in a slump. I haven’t been happy with anything that I’ve made since the first week. I turned macaroons in to brownies yesterday (they are not at all similar, I have no idea what went wrong short of a magical elf intervention in the oven). I am hoping that this turns around. Today.

2) I am a fan of World Cup soccer. It is so much fun to watch and even more fun to watch in a pub, surrounded by other LCB students from around the world. I have my eye on Brazil (duh), Germany, and England. I’d love to think that the home team was going to make a showing, but it’s pretty dubious at this point.

3) I’m addicted to cherries. I eat about 500g (that 1 lb to you and me) a day. They are crisp, tart, and sweet all at the same time. Somehow here they are so much better than at home.

4) I dreamed last night that we got our “panier” for the Cuisine final. For Superior cuisine, they give you a basket with certain items in it and you create a dish based on these ingredients and certain parameters. I dreamed that my class’s panier contained hot dogs, buns, nacho cheese, all the makings for chili (except chili powder) and popcorn. In the dream, I was panicked because a) how was I to make chili without chili powder and b) of course this basket screamed chilidog, but then everyone else was going to make the same thing.

I’ve never eaten a chilidog in my life. How disgusting can a food get?