To-Do List

◘ = Not done
↑= Done

↑ Feel tired and overworked on a Tuesday
↑ Make incredible salad with feta and homemade honey mustard vinagrette
◘ Vote on Matt's art for a Magic card at http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgcom/daily/ymtc31
↑ wish the sidewalks were better plowed so i could take a walk without fear of getting run over by a car
↑ Make molasses millet rye boules
↑ Drink two big glasses of a rather nice cabernet-shiraz blend
Write about the upcoming trip to Paris*
↑ Get a great back massage from daN
↑ Make plans to have dinner at Aria's new place sometime in the next couple weeks
◘ Finish taking down the Christmas tree and decorations
◘ Formally annouce that I won't be attending the conference to which i was accepted as a presenter. Financial reasons. It's the week after Paris, i won't have the money, and Hampshire knows of know resources to throw my way. Ah well. It was good to be accepted.
↑ Drink more water
↑ Remember to turn the heat off because the oven is doing a great job
↑ Wish i didn't have such a bad cough and couldn't stop sneezing; AKA, fear i'm coming down with something; plan to go to bed early

I'm really excited about my bread! (the boules listed above) I made the recipe up, sort of. I had a base, but i had different kinds of flour. I'm looking for some bread that's going to be moist and delicious but isn't so heavily reliant upon wheat flour, because it makes me kind of sluggish and tired.

*PARIS: I'm so excited! The hotel we found is a 3-star hotel in Montmatre, and for those of you who are not familiar with Paris, that is where the movies Amelie and The Moulin Rouge are set. Montmatre is fun, spunky, with fun hills and curvey roads with tons of interesting little bakeries and cafés, and there are some museums i would like to check out in that district as well. We're definitely planning on seeing Le Louvre, L'Arc de Triomphe, and Le Tour Eiffel, if only because daN has heard of them and wants to go to the places he's heard of. Additionally, I want to see the Musée de Rodin, Musée de Picasso (again), and L'Éspace de Dali. Ooh! And perhaps the Pompidou Modern Arts centre again, too!

We're generally planning on doing museums in the morning and other sight-seeing in the afternoon after grabbing lunch at a brasserie or something. Then in the afternoon, after some wanderings, we'll stop in at a café and get some dessert and/or chocolat chaud (hot chocolate) for revitalization. Yay! I'm so excited! We're not going to make an exact schedule, because we want to be able to play it by ear and do what we feel like doing, so i'm psyched about that. I don't want to have everything totally mapped out -- it's nice to have some freedom to feel OK about being pooped when you're travelling.