The end of an era

I have decided to end my time posting here. From now on, please read my posts at the new Mobilize. Divide and Conquer. Look Good Doing It.

Thanks for stopping by!

You want some tots?

My friends and I went to Grill last night around 2:30 a.m. Apparently it's the place to be at that hour, because there were tons of people out front and it was pretty packed indoors when we got there.

I've been to Grill once before, as a freshman undergrad. I remember eating french toast, and that's about it. Oh, and the table we sat at was round. We were there on election night 2004 with a bunch of other Young Democrats, depressed because things weren't looking too hot.

I guess the most exciting thing you can eat at Grill is tater tots, because my friends were adamant about the fact we were going to get some--to get a lot of them.

I was not at all in the mood for any sort of food. Water was fine. I could've gone for another beer, but no food.

Despite my stomach's advice that it was still full from a delicious pizza margherita dinner at Zona 78, I tried some tater tots.

Now I am not a huge tater tot fan. They're usually sort of soggy and greasy. But these at Grill were crispy and delicious. I actually ate more than I planned.

But I will admit the ketchup was my favorite part of the snack. I have no idea why.

So if you're up and about in Tucson and want a crispy, savory snack, I'd suggest Grill. Especially after 10 p.m., because that's when everything in Tucson closes.

Another hiatus

So I haven't posted in almost a month. I'm going to blame that on the fall semester.

I've been pretty much swamped since school started, and that's never fun. But I've been having some fun despite being swamped.

Because I started graduate school, teaching and editing at the Wildcat, I have barely had time to cook anything decent, so my diet has gone to hell. I ate truffles for lunch two days in a row this week, and then almost got away with just eating brownies for dinner one night. Until my stomach almost chewed it's way out alien-style and forced me to eat a stuffed bell pepper.

I'm working on that. I figure I'll eat better if I start cooking for people in the newsroom. And it seems like people in the newsroom need home-cooked meals, so I'm down with that. It'll be a nice counterbalance to the candy jar I set up in the arts desk cubicle thinger. The candy's wiped out by the end of the week, and I've spent about $20 on candy a week so far. Talk about an expensive enterprise.

In other news, grad school is going well. Lots of homework but never a dull minute.

Teaching is going extremely well (or at least that's what I think...), and I'm happy I decided to do it.

I've met lots of wonderful and interesting people so far this semester, which is good. Especially since all of my friends left me for far-off and interesting places like California and Poland. *Sigh*

We'll see how much longer this thing lasts as a food blog. It may end up becoming an...I don't know what...grad school/newspaper/teaching stress lamentation blog.