Hello and welcome to our website! As implied by the website name, we are Taylor and Dana. We live in Jersey City NJ (JC, baby!) with our crazy dog, Josie. We hope you enjoy our site!
Summer Fridays have finally gone into effect!! Yipee! I like Summer Fridays because (a) we get to leave at 1PM and (b) I wear flip-flops in the office all day (it’s my own little way of expressing the fact that I am only here temporarily on Fridays). The good news is that I finished the project that I was working on, so I can actually leave at 1 (and take advantage of a lunch special somewhere…reason (c) that I heart Summer Fridays).
In other news, we signed a lease on a new apartment in JC this week! We’ll do most of our moving over next weekend’s long weekend, so if when you here “independence day” you think “carrying-boxes-up-two-flights-of-stairs-in-steamy-July” then give me a bell. Happy Summer Friday!
This week has felt like two-weeks-for-the-price-of-one.
I have some theories about why…but at the core of them is the fact that way too much has been packed into the last few days! Just a few: I had class two nights this week (rather than my usual one), I had to go do field research last Saturday and again tomorrow (when I’ll spend my day counting bi-valve colonies in a wetland in Queens…in the rain…), and also seeing the This American Life movie last night (yes, “that show where those hipster know-it-alls talk about how fascinating ordinary people are”) – which was, by the way, really great. Or maybe it’s all of the sugar and delicious vegan cake that I’ve eaten this week (vegan oreo cake was definitely the best birthday cake yet).
My week definitely got off to an amazing start with the pasta tasting menu (paired with wines) at Babbo…if only all weeks could start that way! We’re hoping to write a long post about each course if we ever get around to it…the short of it is: add that meal to your list of must-dos. We (shockingly) didn’t take any pictures, so hopefully our verbal expertise will allow us to recreate the meal.
At any rate, there’s always a feeling of accomplishment when you make it to 4:30 after a long week…which is why I’m writing this post. Happy Friday!
We are back from a wonderful trip to Europe and will post many pictures (mostly of the food that we ate) some time soon. In the meantime, please enjoy this excellent short preview clip from Mariah Carey’s new video (just trust us…)
