My not-so-secret aspiration.

So you know how everyone has these secret aspirations? If I was more daring, I would become a lounge singer. I secretly think I could be a great film director. I wanna be an astronaut. Or, in the words of Alex from "Everything is Illuminated" (its a good movie, you should watch it) "I write too, but I think I was born to be an accountant."

Well, my secret aspiration involves me being a restaurant co-owner. And not just any restaurant co-owner.

I want to make pies.


I love pies. I love making them,  I love eating them (although I love making them more, which is probably a good thing.) I like the creativity of arranging a restaurant and themeifying it. I like the idea of having an industrial sized oven and going home with flour in my hair. I like the idea of working with Elika, even if its 14 hour days.

And until this year, this dream has been kind of a random ambiguous type aspiration. But now I'm kind of thinking, why not? I like baking, I make tolerably delicious desserts, I'm a fair head with numbers, and UAF* has both culinary arts and business classes. (I mean, I'm still wanting to take foreign languages...but I can do both, right?)

Another sign that made me think Hey, this could actually work! is that in a secondhand store today, I found waitress outfits.

So this is me in my head, thinking about my future:

And this is the dress I got for Elika, just in case (and if the whole restaurant thing doesn't work out, we could always be the waitress sidekick from the delicious movie "The Waitress"):

So my secret aspiration: unveiled to the world (although everyone who reads this proabably knows it anyway). See you in 10 years: possibly as a translator, possibly as a bum on the other side of the world, and possibly as a foreign traveling piemakeress (think Vianne in Chocolat, only with pie), possibly in Anytown, USA, with a cheery smile and a menu.


*Oh yeah, that's where I'll be next year, if I didn't tell you. Go Nanooks!