Meet my mixer, Edwin.

He's licorice. At least he claims to be. Edwin is my mixer. A real, heavy duty mixer with all the attachments. He has Flour Power 14! I didn't have time to do anything with him yesterday. Then the pressure of "very first mixer batter" petrified me. Blaming the cheap egg-beater was first in my line of defense for why the cake fell, why the brownies taste bitter, why the cake was salty. What if all these hours of whining about a lack of a mixer and blaming my equipment turned out to be displaced realizations of inadequacy? To put it simply, my cakes fell because I slammed the oven door (twice), the brownies were bitter because there IS such a thing as too much baking powder, and the cake was salty because Korean salt is so much more potent (but I didn't know better). Without something to blame, I would have to own up to destroying a bag of flour because I couldn't follow directions. Swell.

Luckily, my dear mother graciously went first. She is making pan-fried pork-napa-cabbage-chive buns. It has a thicker, doughier exterior than dumplings and a nice grilled taste from the cast iron pot. I wonder how much better crepes would taste if I made them on the cast iron skillet?

Today was a monumental day for Cosmomorphic Cookies. After sorting out a bank account at Union Bank, I was able to link the "Buy Now"/Donation button with something that can take money, and launch the Kickstarter project! My project is started! The clock is ticking! This it! Then I promptly got so excited that I spent 8 hours writing my IP paper, thus turning my brain to mush. It's not "writing itself" as easily as I would like. Netflix is an infinite mind suck, instant brain liquifryer, intelligence lowering, entertainment MASTERMIND. If we gave free television, and lots of it, to the world, people would not engage in conflict longer than the commercials. Has someone done a study linking hours spent in front of the television and the number of international violent aggressions by the country?

I'm off to make small post-its with conversation starters such as "Vertical Integration in Quartz movement-era Swiss Watchmaking," and "IP Law with built-in Quality Control." Work, brain, process something! Earn your keep. If I don't finish this IP paper, I don't have to worry about the Bar because I won't graduate!