Well, we haven't gotten off to a very great start. Even the occasional chef will admit that cooking requires plenty of tools. These include: dishes, utensils, pots, pans, fill-in-the-blank. The chef is at an admitted disadvantage without them. The student chef is at an admitted disadvantage without a dishwasher. Yes, unfortunate of circumstances, the dishwasher is broken. After pressuring the detergent-clogged appliance to work three times and wondering whether it was so quiet because it was so good, I e-mailed the maintenance with a full historical account of my struggles with the pretentious, fancy thing. Being the optimist that I am, I assumed that they would come and fix it the next day, and then the next, and the next. The dishes piled up.

This morning, I finally succumbed and washed 80% of all the dishes, utensils, pots, pans, fill-in-the-blank that we own. So exhausting and time-consuming was this terrible chore that I had no energy for anything but a bowl of toasted honey oats.



Tiny, tiny steps is the way I walk, folks.