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Name: Jessica
Country: United States
State: California
Birthday: 4/22/1983
Gender: Female
Interests: Badminton, Wushu, reading, origami, volleyball, gymnastics
Expertise: Chemistry, badminton, jumping, being boring
Occupation: Chemist
Industry: Chemistry (CRO)
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AIM:  thelam83
MSN: earthday83
ICQ:  11875258
Member Since:
2/1/2003
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| i happened upon this website while looking up ciabatta on wikipedia: Artisan Bread Baking. looks like it has a lot of good tips for amateur bakers. i definitely learned some things.
i've been sticking with basic recipes so far, since i don't want to go out and spend a ton of money on specialty flours and ingredients if i'm just going to botch up the bread.
on that segue...the Ralph's close to my apartment has a huge selection of flours: corn meal, oat flour, rye flour.. expensive of course, but at least the choices are available.
so two weeks ago i made a overly-salty pain de campagne. last week i made a modified pain de campagne and baguettes of fermented white bread for father's day gifts. this week, i made 2 loaves of ciabatta, one with garlic. (these all came from recipes in books.) next up on my list is pizza-made-from-scratch from my leftover fermented dough. i had a sandwich for my first time at Panera last weekend, and it came with sesame semolina bread. the sesame tasted great, so i'll definitely have to get me some for baking. the crumb of the bread was soft and had a pasta-like chewiness. (pasta is usually made with some percentage of semolina flour.) i liked that too, so i'm going to keep an eye out for a semolina bread recipe to try next.
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| WOW: Star Trek. This movie looks like it has an awesome cast. Simon Pegg! Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, among others =P.
Also, I'm excited about this movie too: Twilight. Go Cedric Diggory (Robert Pattinson).
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| I'm moving to San Diego for sure now. I will be taking the position of Head of Analytical Chemistry down in our San Diego lab. It's a small place; there are only 8 people working there right now. But the idea is that there is a lot of potential and something has been holding them back. I'm hoping that I can go there and push the company forward. The lab is located on Sorrento Valley Road, north of La Jolla and UCSD. Obviously I'm looking for housing near there. If anyone has suggestions or advice let me know. The weather is warm there and there is a lot of beach. I'm hoping to continue playing volleyball down there, but we'll see what happens. My relatives are in LA, so I'll be spending quite a bit of time there too. The timeline for the move is Soon. I'm taking into consideration certain weekend activity commitments that I made long before, and trying to fit my move in sometime at the end of April, or perhaps early May. There were serious pros and cons that go with this decision to move. A lot of my friends are up north in the Bay Area, plus my parents. I have activities here and everything. Moving down will be a significant expense, with the increase in rent that goes with living on my own. I don't really know anyone in San Diego. But the pros are: that this is a big career opportunity. It's a big jump in position, and comes with a nice raise. It'll be an adventure to go and live in a new city. If I do well there, I have a big opportunity to make a significant impact on my company. In the end I made the split second decision to move. I hope I can live up to expectations and still hold on to my own long term goals. | | |
| Work is killing me lately. My boss shifted a project that failed at our San Diego lab onto the Menlo Park lab, so it's behind schedule, the customer is unhappy, we have to rush it, and the boss is breathing down our necks. He also decided to shift another project that some other company failed at onto us, so boss wants it ASAP, he's breathing down our necks, and is unhappy when he hears it's not running 24 hours a day, literally. So I guess whatever plans he had of sending me to San Diego fall by the wayside until he stops taking on projects with unrealistic timelines. | | |
| It's rather discouraging when you're cold, tired, and unmotivated. I was supposed to go to the gym yesterday. I was supposed to spend a little time studying. I didn't do anything productive. Ahh I need to get out this funk and kick back into gear. On a brighter note, the annual wushu ski trip was this past weekend. It was fun, tiring, and a little stressful. I hope everyone had a great time, since I did have a hand in planning this year. I hope my stress paid off in fun; then it would definitely be worth it. I had fun cooking chicken fajitas on Saturday, and it strokes my ego that my fresh baked bread got completely gobbled up. We played the most engaging rounds of Mafia ever. Some of the players had great strengths: logical James Chen, honest Jimmy, charismatic Shahaub, leaderly Qing, passionate Michael Choi, inconspicuous Jennifer, innocently-confused Jon, intelligent Alan. I wonder if we'll ever be able to get a Mafia group like this together again. I think my snowboarding improved, as my third time. I managed to board more relaxed after lunchtime, and eventually managed to go down the slopes sideways, instead of constantly on my heels. I think if I have another chance to board this season, I'll be able to get the toe-ing and then start working on carving. Last step will then be learning how to alight the ski lift without falling. (It's so hard.) | | |
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