Boost - Have you ever used Arborio rice? I used to like Jasmine the best but a few months ago I started using Arborio and now that's about all I use, it's so creamy and delicious.

Keep posting updates about culinary school so that those of us who are spending the summer teaching calculus to summer school students can live vicariously through you (not that I don't like my summer job).

Also I made a pizza a couple days ago. This isn't by any means the best-tasting thing I've made lately but it's the first time I've made my own pizza so I thought I'd post it here. The toppings I put on it are gouda cheese, roasted red peppers, jalapenos, tomatoes, red cabbage and a little bit of balsamic vinegar. It was OK but not up to the standards of any decent pizza place.