I have found my calling:

The King Arthur Flour Cookie Companion

It's a cookie cookbook that's thicker than my AP Biology textbook (and more useful). It has page after page of delicious sounding cookies. Fudgy brownies just like the box, bakery style date bars, fancy cookies, biscotti, everything that looks and sounds delicious.

So far I've made their fake Girl Scout Samoas (quite good, especially warm) and "Americanized Chinese Restaurant Cookies" which are light almond cookies dipped in chocolate and chopped almonds. Tomorrow I plan to make the Pecan Pie Bars and apricot bars.

I was so taken with the book that my mom had bought for herself as a treat for getting a raise at work that a few days later she surprised me with my own copy. Hopefully next year I'll find time to try even more recipes. We can add some variety to our end of the semester sweets-orgy (last year it was chocolate chip cookies and cake, mostly).

The big news around here is that my dad found out because he's a partner, the office will pay for high speed internet. Then I found today that if we sign up for a package deal with one of the new competing cable companies we can get high speed internet, better cable than we have now, and phone for half the price my dad pays now for phone, cable, and dial-up. I'm quite excited. He said he'll call tomorrow! I'll have to remind him.

I'm also excited because my parents are getting me a car to have on campus next year. It seriously reveals what a dork I am though. I find out I'm getting a car, and I'm excited because it means I can get to church and the grocery store! No big plans here. Though, of course, it will make trips on school breaks easier and let me go to movies that I want to see more than any of my roommates. And if any job interview or doctor situations come up I don't have to worry about transportation. Like this spring when my paresthesia started the health center people might have referred me to a neurologist, and I wouldn't have had any way to get there.

Today I got a job through the temp agency I signed up with today. I'd signed up with another one that didn't have many job listings in my area, so I signed up with the one I used two summers ago and they said they needed someone to file and do stuff in their office, so I start Thursday. Until then I'm going to try and do more on the quilt I'm making for my roommate Laura, who's getting married in August. A deadline! I've been working a week and I'm 14.5% done with the main area. I drew blood for the first time yesterday which is doing quite well. And I've learned that I quite prefer size 10 betweens (needles). Nines are much too large.