Thoughts

Thanksgiving left-overs are amazing! Especially all mushed up together, even if they are cold.

and the air is colder in davis, its more like tahoe air.

Oops

I meant to post the last blog a few weeks ago, but I always confused the Save as Draft, and Publish Post button.
-Genna

"You just never want to sell yourselves, because then you become a fellon"

Publish Post!

Oh, the Internet, what an entertaining place!

So being a product of hippie love from a hippie town I decided to pick some olives, look up recipes on the Internet and try to make my own olives. Right now I have about 10-20 olives soaking in hot water in an old applesauce jar in my bedroom. But I also heard about other food around campus and went looking around on DavisWiki.org. I’ve found some interesting things under my search for "Free Food"...

"Road tomatoes are free in the summer months. These are tomatoes that fall off the tomato trucks while in transport. Usually plentiful around on/off ramps. "
ew?

"Berries - Blackberries grow in many of the wilder areas around the edge of town. Probably other berries, too. The little strawberries you'll commonly see growing around downtown are decorative. They may or may not be poisonous, but regardless, they don't taste good and aren't worth picking"
Hey Bob, want me to pick some strawberries for you? I swear they are tasty!!

"Free Liquid Bread
See Free Beer"
Already found that thanks.

"The food science department often has free taste testings where they ask you deep and meaningful questions about the texture of a cookie."
For some reason the commentary in this sentence made me think of Sara.

"Walnut trees grow all over Davis. They look like golf ball sized green balls, not the walnuts you find in the store. This is the outer husk, which needs to be peeled off (and stains like crazy!). "
omg they stain?? really?? I didn’t know that.

Now I've found the page titled "Good Ideas For Dates" in Davis. Here are a few funny passages:

Try to catch a squirrel by the bike tunnel behind Davis Commons.

Go to the Arboretum and yell at people you see feeding the ducks.

Go to rummage sales and see who finds the most random object. You can find a list of rummage sales in The Davis Enterprise. If you're really cheap, go Dumpster Diving.

Great cheap date: On a Tuesday night, eat a $2 bowl of Tortilla Soup at El Mariachi, have a $1 scoop of ice cream and then go to a $4 movie. Later entertainment will surely be free ;)

And my personal Favorite

"Sneak onto an Amtrak train. Make love in the rest room while they collect tickets and then sit in the dining car and see how far you can go until they kick you off for not paying. "

This link is also entertaining... http://daviswiki.org/Makeout_Spots

And last but not least...

"Squirrel Fishing

A different sort of sport. It's playing around with the squirrels.
Take a fishing pole, or just a stick, and wrap some string, twine, whatever, around a couple of nuts. Not so tight it won't come off, but tight enough to hold a couple minutes. Let a squirrel grab the nut, and wrestle it back and forth. A squirrel shouldn't get hurt by this, the string is wrapped around the nut, and the goal of the game is to to lead the squirrel closer to you (gently) before letting him get the nut out. Squirrels can be really cute rolling around and wrestling, even if you're not trying to lead him anywhere. Just be fair, don't tease them and take the nuts outta their hands. It's harmless fun as long as you don't overfeed or be rough with a squirrel by accident."

Brownies.. College Style!

So my roommate Emily needed to bake a batch of brownies for her friend's birthday. So we decided to make a night of it and bake brownies and watch movies. So Emily, Sasha, and Laura went to Rite-Aid to get the mix, a pan, and other ingredients. Apparently the store was out of vegetable oil so after some Internet research we decided to use applesauce. So we made the brownies in the pan with a plastic spoon to mix it, no mixing bowl, and no wooden spoon. After adding the applesauce we realized it was homemade and chunky so we now had apple chunks in the brownies, so on the walk over to the oven (in a different building) Emily took it upon herself to pick out all the apple chunks with her fingers. That was after Laura dipped her scarf in the pan, leaving a few fuzzies in the mix. The kitchen was off a room where there were some bad trombonist playing something loudly. The kitchen was tiny, and we couldn’t figure out where the oven was at first, for some reason the over was under the sink... which Emily didn’t think was possible. Oh and there were Bibles, in the cupboards. So after getting the brownies in we wandered over to "Games Night" in another building. It was a bunch of board games and video games set up for gaming nerds, and those of us with inner game nerds. But all four of us just stood around the food table eating candy and broccoli and watching people play video games on giant screens, Guitar Hero was amazing. After 27 minutes we went back to check on the brownies and had to wait another few minutes before they were done. We removed the pan with a scarf as a potholder.
Back at our dorm the brownies actually tasted not too bad. The saltines, soup, raw Raman, frosting, granola, chocolate, starbursts, broccoli, and animal cookies were also tasty. We ended up watching random things online, listening to music, taking pictures, and then in the end watching the first two episodes of Weeds.
So far I'm still in my jammies :) I have gotten a lot of homework done however. Tonight should be fun as well.
Here are the pics that I'm too lazy to put in with the text.