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I must have been tired because I fell asleep really early yesterday. I think I was sleeping around 9pm. After that I intermittently awoke and watched some videos on youtube and fell back asleep. I feel well rested today so I guess it wasn't all for naught.

Sometime next month I'm finally going to be doing special effects work for that photo shoot I mentioned months ago. I wasn't sure what was happening with it since I never got a time frame despite asking a bunch of times. Apparently it's going down in a few weeks. I guess I should start making the stuff for it. My guess Is that I can do most of it in a week or so and spend another week working on details and techniques. Hopefully everything comes out well.

I need to learn how to make some more Mexican food. I'm in the mood for Mexican but I have no ideas beyond that. The normal things I know how to make already (tacos, burritos, enchiladas) aren't cutting it. Maybe I'll break down and find a cookbook. Rick Bayless maybe? He was good enough to win Top Chef Masters, he should be good enough to fulfill my Mexican cravings.

Speaking of Top Chef, the new season is in effect. Already there are a few standouts, though mostly they are standouts for being horrible or being total douchebags. Once those people are eliminated I'll be excited to see what happens. My guess is fat, bearded, teddy bear guy wins it!

I have been really lax on finding things to read as of late. I think I'm going to start finding scans of books online and reading them while I'm at work so that I can kill time more effectively. The problem there is that I only want to download books that I wouldn't actually want to pay for. Maybe it's going to be a slew of science related stuff.

So it looks like from today (yesterday really) I am officially baking all of my own bread. I started a starter dough last night but didn't actually make any bread as the dough had to rise and refrigerate for 5 hours. Today will be the first day I actually make something though. I'm going to make bread bowls for soup I think, although maybe not considering I don't have any soup to make. What do you guys think is the best soup for a bread bowl? Definitely some type of cream soup right?

After work yesterday I went on a hunt for some kind of baking stone. I went to maybe 8 different shops but of course there was nothing even remotely resembling baking stones or even that much involving baking at all. I did go to the baking specialty shop after everything but, even though they sell a "pizza stone" it wasn't available at the shop I went to. I guess I'm forced to go to Shinjuku to get it. Maybe Tokyu Hands has one? That's closer at least.

That was pretty much it for yesterday. I went to sleep early in hopes that I could not be tired today. I'm not really that tired today but I still lack all motivation to do anything. Although, it's still early so maybe the motivation will pick up later in the morning or at least after lunch. Probably not though.

I haven't seen the Obama speech or the apparently disastrous Jindal speech nor do I have the want to. I am glad Obama is the president but beyond that I have given up caring about American politics. Considering I used to help write a political blog with a few people, this is a big step in a different direction for me.

I guess the clothing that I designed will be ready for an initial fitting some time this week. That should be interesting. Hopefully everything comes out like I imagined it.

I'm excited for the final episode of Top Chef today. I'll "watch" it via Gawker's live blogging. If anything, I really hope that Stefan loses. I don't really care who wins out of the other two though as I wanted Jeff to win and he was eliminated again on the last episode.

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