Pastry Dough and Politics

10.13 am

There's something nice about getting up early in the morning. I like waking up as the sun is just starting to peek through my curtains. If I time my shower right, the whole bathroom is golden with the sunbeams cutting through the steam like spotlights. Plus, there's usually nobody using the laundry machines.

I made scones this morning, cutting the butter in instead of melting it. It's like making play-doh, but better. You coat the pieces of butter in flour, then squeeze and squish until they end up as small, flour covered flakes. The flour starts to get thicker, almost coming together like a dough as you plunge your hands into it and squeeze.

10.20 am

Notes of interest from the morning paper:

Apparently, experience is not, after all, a desired quality in a presidential candidate. The person with the most experience in the executive branch: Cheney. The presidents with the least experience before coming into office: Abe Lincoln and both Roosevelts.

Foreign investors are rapidly buying America. Citibank had been bailed out by Abu Dubai, Singapore, and Kuwait. Perhaps we should ask Japan to invest in Cal in exchange for requiring all students to learn Japanese and eat only with chopsticks.