yay! i have an internship!

this summer, i will be working for douglas & mcintyre publishing group and studying how they can streamline their acquisitions process. i'll even be paid! modestly, but it's better than what i'm getting now.

i'm excited. i've got all of these grand plans to bike to work, but we'll see what happens come the end of april.

it's such a relief to have this settled; i felt like i was one of the only people left who didn't have an internship.

in other news, i experimented with my new oil fondue set yesterday to see (a) how long it would take to get the oil hot enough to fry things if i relied on just the flame, and (b) how successful i could be at making vegetable tempura using the fondue set. this is all part of my presentation plan for my history course, but i'm not sure it's going to work out. i think i've decided to make hush puppies rather than veggie tempura (just couldn't get the batter right), but that excludes those non-dairy folk in my class from being able to partake. how is this relevant to the history of ink, you may ask? well, it really is only peripherally so, but at least it makes class interesting. see, old-timey printers used to go beyond the city walls once or twice a year to boil linseed oil and make their own ink. for the germans, it was pretty much the equivalent of their wayzgoose, a day when everyone in the printing house got together for 'merrymaking' (two of the books i read used that very term) and a meal: they'd fry food in the boiling oil and eat it.

tonight, i try my hand at making berry-juice ink and prepare my presentation.