Perspectives of a Canadian in the Old/Deep/New/Geographic South: This is where I ramble on about nothing in particular and post a few nice pictures.
Chicken and sausage gumbo
Encountered the new Carolina Creole food truck at today’s Blessing of the Vines out at Irvin House Vineyards today. The gumbo was pretty tasty. Good cornbread. If I had a little more cash on hand, I’d have gone for a few other things as well. I really wanted to try the gator bites.
The end of the year is usually a pretty busy time of year for me. Normally I’m trying to get the last of the x-ray units tested before heading into the holidays. Add school into the mix and busy turns into crazy.
Four mammography units, 3 CT scanners, 1 RF room, 1 x-ray room and 1 bone density unit left to test. There’s also a ton of other miscellaneous work stuff that needs doing in between all that.
On the school side, one project for bioengineering class and tests/homework/project for stats class.
Top it off with trying to get my research work going again.
I’ll be glad when the end of the semester rolls around.
Jason Layne ran an interactive photobooth off in a side room at Cupcake Camp. It’s a rare occasion that I get captured on the other side of the camera, and even more rare that I do it voluntarily. It seemed like a fun thing to do and this is what happened.
Yesterday’s Cupcake Camp Charleston was another great success judging by the number of people that came and the number of cupcake bakers. The number and variety of cupcakes seemed almost endless, with some very creative cupcakes.
This year’s Cupcake Camp was also a fundraiser for Pattison’s Academy, a school for children with multiple disabilities.
I didn’t have too many cupcakes, but the ones I did have were all really good. Would have liked to try them all, but that probably wouldn’t have been too healthy for me.
There were clearly people who had been to last year’s Cupcake Camp. Not content with a mere paper plate, they were the ones that brought their own boxes and large containers to hold their cupcake haul.
You might think being a Cupcake Camp judge would be pretty awesome, but after looking at all the cupcakes they have to sample, I’m thinking maybe not so much (although I still probably wouldn’t say no).
Also present was Coastal Coffee Roasters, roasting up some beans and serving some freshly roasted and ground coffees for people to try out.
Another good time was had at this year’s Cupcake Camp Charleston. Next up in April is Cupcake Camp Summerville, in case you haven’t had enough cupcakes yet. That will probably be enough time for people to recover from this year’s cupcake binge.
Zuppa di Pesce
It’s good to see La Fontana and Chef Gary return to West Ashley. The new La Fontana is a slightly smaller place (a former Pizza Hut) than the old location (where Grindz Burgers and Brew currently is) but it has a nice cozy atmosphere, friendly wait staff, and great food.