3 days to go, until I go. Today was more or less routine in a more or less pleasant way. I baked alone from 5am to about 4pm which entails zombie shuffling to the bake house at 5 to rake out the embers from the oven, then mixing dough until around 7:30 when the breakfast meeting happens. After that it's constant espresso with fresh cream, loud music from my flour saturated ipod player, and an hour of dough division until the oven has cooled enough to begin baking - 765 degrees. At 4pm I pulled the final 6lb rye loaves from the now 550 degree oven and zombie reshuffled up the hill to the intern house for a nap in the hammock with an anchor steam beer and an open book on my chest. Around 6 I awoke to mosquitos and thunderclouds. After a small solo dinner I did a (successful) trial pack of my bag for europe. So here I am with about an hour before I should be sleeping, since I get to sleep in tomorrow (7am!). 2....1...
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