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til it starts to get brown and is a consistency that you like i line my pan with parchment paper so it doesn t stick plus fewer dishes wash your shrooms and slice them into thin slices boil your egg noodles drain your egg noodles over the mushrooms this will soften them while maintaining all the good flavor texture and nutrients transfer your egg noodles and mushrooms back to the pot douse with sesame oil soy sauce and toss in some ground or fresh grated ginger don t measure measuring is for sissies just make sure it tastes good you ll know when you get it right let everything cool seriously this salad is best cold so put it all in the fridge and go have a drink or four fill a giant bowl with lettuce use all the lettuce you want because like it s lettuce it doesn t count top it with your noodle mixture and tofu and then sprinkle sesame seeds on top look at you all fancy like it also makes a killer lunch the next day see next time i m adding broccoli because i fucking love broccoli 1 comment from weeknight cooking in a messy kitchen who is this girl may 29 2013 today i woke up early even though i didn t have to i put on pink lipstick i got a mani pedi for the first time in years god bless groupon and the salon behind my office i got home ate a salad with quinoa and tuna and then made meatballs to freeze ah the fruits of our csa i went for a two mile run to keep myself ready for saturday s 5k i got my ipsy bag in the mail i tried on the coral lipstick perfume and brow gel as i stretched my legs against a wall listening laughing and crying to this american life i put the nail polish next to the other pinks in my roygbiv sorted nail polish collection i ate a bowl of strawberries i prepped dinner more salad more quinoa salmon and challah bread 20 year old renee doesn t recognize 27 year old renee 15 year old renee sure as fuck doesn t recognize 27 year old renee come to think of it 25 year old renee wouldn t recognize her either i kinda like it adulthood is kinda cool 2 comments from uncategorized a poem for a typical end of semester day april 25 2013 waking up early playing candy crush for an hour realizing you have a meeting and you re now late forgoing a shower not preparing for said meeting meeting followed immediately by research interview followed immediately by class wherein you finish your slides for your next class twenty minute break realizing you forgot to eat all day fixing all the problems with your partner s slides instead of eating at least there are people handing out chocolate on campus final presentation beer me breathe 2 comments from uncategorized they call it strong arm robbery april 1 2013 here s the thing about getting robbed you don t actually believe it s happening as it s happening and when you start running after the fucker who snatched your iphone out of your hands you don t even think about what you re going to do when you catch up with him because at that moment you re going to catch up with him not catching up with him is not an option it becomes an option when your legs hurt your lungs hurt you re in a neighborhood you know isn t safe and you can t see the fucker anymore and that s when you realize you ve just been motherfucking robbed and that iphone is not coming back let s review how it happened you re sitting on the el casually browsing pinterest when all the sudden you feel some fucker s hands on your hands and your phone is ripped away from you and you re all mother fuck you know regina george style so as the train doors are closing you take off after him and yell he has my phone he has my phone and you run like hell in his direction and you wish you d had started training for that 5k a few weeks earlier when you finally resolve that michelle obama isn t coming back that was my phone s name r i p you turn around you don t know what to do you see a bodega but it looks sketchy so you cross the street to the subway you ve never seen a subway where the workers are behind panes of glass you re clearly not in kansas anymore toto a woman an angel named beverly asks you if you got your phone back she was on the same train car and watched you take off after him she offers you her phone to call the police and your husband she asks what you re doing on the west side clearly noticing that a nerdy white girl is a bit out of place you explain you live in the next suburb over she waits with you and walks you to the street when the police arrive you give her a hug wishing you could give her more wishing you could give her peace in her neighborhood knowing this happens all too often the police take their sweet ass time you wonder if they would ve been quicker to respond had it happened in another part of the city like the gold coast you file a report you don t expect to see your phone again you get back on the green line and shed a few tears not because you miss your phone but because you just got motherfuckin robbed when you get back to your little suburb you stop at the neighborhood bar and drink your feelings they taste like amaretto sours you wipe the data from your phone remotely and make sure your husband reported it stolen to at t you let your hands stop shaking you explore all the feelings you re feeling and you realize that you re pissed you ve become a statistic you re pissed that the fucker that robbed you is a statistic you re pissed that he was a young black male and you are a young white woman and he s forced you two to play into stereotypes you re pissed that your race your gender and your age likely made you a target you pray he sells your phone for something good to help his little brother buy books to treat his lady to ice cream to help his mom put food on the table you re probably wrong but deep down you still think that people are really good at heart 8 comments from lessons learned truth post scintilla 13 horizons march 19 2013 today s prompt what have been the event horizons of your life the moments from which there is no turning back my junior year english teacher shot down all my research project proposals she said renee i really think you should do body image and the media i did i ve been studying some form of it since then it was time to consider colleges i spent countless hours on collegeboard com thinking about the decision butler bradley washington american roosevelt depaul i took a tour of saint mary s i applied early decision i needed a summer internship everyone else was getting one i decided to see if the local congressman took interns he did he catapulted my career in politics i developed a crush on joe i told myself i wasn t going to hold back no more walls no more games he deserved more all or nothing he got all we ve been married almost four years i hated my job i hated my boss i hated my coworkers i wanted to be a teacher i was told it would take me 6 years part time to be a high school social studies teacher i decided to apply to a masters program instead i got in and then i got into a ph d program and here i am a feminist saint mary s alum political junkie married professor in training 4 comments from personal scintilla 13 a chance meeting march 18 2013 today s prompt write about a chance meeting that has stayed with you ever since i realize as i begin to write this that it may seem like my participation in the scintilla project is only serving to toot my own horn about all the fantastic famous people i ve met but these stories are just some of my favorite stories and it s a good excuse to share them one fall joe and i returned to the place we met notre dame for a football game like we always do at least once a season we have a few traditions we park in his old neighborhood for 15 we hit up the library for a bathroom break we watch the band we eat port a pit chicken which i didn t realize is almost solely a south bend thing you guys are missing out we watch more of the band we head to the stadium it started out like a perfectly normal football saturday it was sunny and beautiful we parked the car in joe s old neighbor s lawn and head to the library for a bathroom break that s when things get weird once inside the library there s a bit of commotion i mean there s a lot of commotion on game days at notre dame but this was weird i found myself being pushed back by a giant dude like a giant giant dude that s when i realize i had nearly run into taylor swift her body guard moved me out of the way because i was like gonna run into t swift you guys she was crazy tall and skinny like scary so tall so skinny apparently she was at nd because her brother goes there or was thinking of going there i don t know i didn t care because how often do you go to a notre dame game and get pushed out of the way by taylor swift s giant body guard in the library not everyday folks 2 comments from personal scintilla 13 viva la vie boheme march 15 2013 talk about a time when you were driving and you sang in the car all alone why do you remember this song and that stretch of road i m modifying today s scintilla prompt there s a second person in the car with me her name is erin and we were on our way from chicago to indianapolis for a mini blogging meetup i had made the most ridiculous playlist for the 6 ish hour drive full of showtunes boy bands and terrible pop music that we could sing along to without getting bored somewhere around lafeyette indiana on i 65 we found ourselves in a horrible rainstorm i m talking barely visible conditions my windshield wipers could not go fast enough we could barely hear one another over the pounding of the rain as the driver i was scared no doubt about that but it seemed too dangerous to pull over what if someone didn t see us what if someone skidded into us so i just gripped the steering wheel and took it slowly around the height of the rainstorm my ipod started playing la vie boheme from the musical rent something about the rhythm and rhyme of that song settled me erin and i both started singing along giggling like 12 year olds at the dirty lyrics it was almost meditative nearly chant like and exactly what i needed behind the wheel to ginsberg dylan cunningham and cage lenny bruce langston hughes to the stage to uta to buddha pablo neruda too why dorothy and toto went over the rainbow to blow off auntie em la vie boheme 2 comments from about me scintilla 13 a step by step manual to driving chelsea clinton around town march 14 2013 today s prompt tell a story about something interesting anything that happened to you but tell it in the form of an instruction manual step 1 step 2 etc step 1 check my email step 2 see an unknown email address step 3 open email step 4 realize this email is an offer to help with the hillary clinton 2008 campaign step 5 realize this campaign help involves driving chelsea clinton around south bend step 6 reply immediately to volunteer step 7 wait the day arrives step 1 pick up rental car provided by the campaign step 2 get rental car swept by the secret service step 3 watch bill and chelsea clinton step off the plane step 4 load chelsea and her staff into the car step 5 follow bill s driver to the first speaking location step 6 stay with the car but roll down the window to listen to their speeches step 7 say hello to the former governor and ask him where to take chelsea for lunch step 8 take chelsea and her staff to a local cafe for a salad and coffee step 9 drop chelsea and her staff at the airport step 10 ask for a picture so my family doesn t think i m a compulsive liar 10 comments from about me scintilla 13 tell a story set at your first job march 13 2013 craving a bit of bloggy community i decided to join the scintilla project i remember seeing a lot of buzz about it last year so i m excited to be a part of the project this time around over the next two weeks you ll be seeing some stories that tell the tapestry of my life today s prompt is tell a story set at your first job my first job was slinging ice cream at a little shop called ritter s frozen custard it s a chain but their locations are sparse if you live near one consider yourself lucky it s the best damn ice cream outside of real italian gelato the environment at ritter s was happy like really really happy employees are known for their friendliness and if you have ritter s on your resume service industry managers in town especially know that your service is top notch because how could you be depressed when there s so much free ice cream around and you get to listen to the radio and you work with your friends i m telling you it was a fantastic job even though i was paid 5 50 an hour except let s be realistic everyone has bad days even ritter s employees and one day i had a bad day i don t remember what set me off but i was irritable short tempered and just ready to leave now that i think about it my bad attitude may have been due to a caramel apple sundae selling contest my kingdom for a caramel apple sundae right now before the end of the night i had absolutely snapped at my assistant manager i felt awful my assistant manager was a nice dude he was very positive and knew how to motivate a team but i was over it that night the worst part was i assumed this was going to go into my file you see every ritter s employee at that time had a file when you did something spectacular like win a sundae selling contest it went in your file when you did something questionable like snap at your am it also went in your file when i saw my am go into the office i thought for sure he was writing my outburst into my file i knew i had to confront my general manager and apologize it was one of the scariest things i d ever done at the time during my next shift i told my general manager that i needed to talk he sat me down and i explained everything that i was frustrated that i snapped and that i felt terrible about it i figured he needed an explanation as to why this black mark was on my file he told me that the am hadn t written anything down from that shift but he was proud of me for apologizing i was proud of me too 1 comment from lessons learned older entries in a nutshell 26 married ph d student geek reformed political junkie women s college grad smick chick isfj brunette aries homebody struggling to be domestic uic comm cyber footprints about me twitter facebook academia edu tumblr 20sb affiliates advertise here email me categories navigate this blog through its categories academia media studies powerful woman monologues women s studies personal about me lessons learned life update most opinionated student life truth post miscellany friday fun i find this funny pop culture geekery social media geekery weeknight cooking in a messy kitchen wordless reviews recommendations sponsored unsponsored guest posts people love me belle renee subscribe subscribed belle renee join 121 other subscribers sign me up already have a wordpress com account log in now belle renee subscribe subscribed sign up log in report this content view site in reader manage subscriptions 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