this morning i invented a caramel apple pancake. it was also high in fiber, being composed partly of all-bran cereal. :) it's now in recipe R&D, so i would be willing to share the recipe once i've perfected it.

yesterday i turned in my grad school application. i rewarded myself with the only (i think--not counting singles/EPs) hefner album i didn't have yet: we love the city.

tim: did you know that the hefner brain is part of a trilogy of EPs, the others being the hefner soul and the hefner heart? i think we should compare collections.

on a related note, i *might might might* be able to go to ohio in april. which would be really good for me. i am getting homesick and bored here. it's partly the city and partly the money problems. i feel really wasted here. i don't want to be apart from K, and he doesn't want that either, but perhaps a little time apart would improve things. i don't know. i want to be so many places now and i don't have any money. i want to be in ohio in april, back to london for may 3, i want to visit friends in both chicago and the twin cities, i want to be in iowa in august to take advantage of fun temporary work like i have the past two years, i want to be in iowa in early september for my parents' birthdays, i want to be back here starting school (god willing) in october. so that's a lot of transportation and time off work that i cannot afford, nor do i wish to ask my parents to subsidize these ventures. i am already able to get K to iowa for my birthday if things go well, but...i am going to need money for the rest of it. which suggests that i have to go back to the states ASAP. unless i suddenly get, say, an apprenticeship with a baker in a neighboring town who pays cash in hand. or something like that.