My new favorite cake is Chocolate Almond Sans Rival from Conti’s. I was given a whole box by a pancreatic cancer patient, and it was great. Usually I just have my mom cut these gifts into tiny pieces to be distributed to whoever wants it, but this time I asked that she leave me a whole, calorrific slice!

In the spirit of gluttony, hedonism, and diabetic ketoacidosis, I find that these cakes are best served with red wine, so I broke open a bottle of Red Moscato given to me last Christmas and drank about seven drops of it. On a somehow related note, my favorite dessert during annual conventions and other events held in hotels is a tiny, tiny piece of leche flan placed beside a huge piece of watermelon, with the watermelon juice running into the base of the leche flan.

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I’ve seen the documentary The Kingmaker last October, and the most remarkable thing about it that left my jaw on the floor was not the conversion of an island into a private safari, or the remark that he shouldn’t be seen flying economy, but that in one scene one of my friends from med school was seen giving the imeldific one a bouquet of flowers for her birthday! Looking back I never really knew her political persuasion anyway, but I immediately messaged her to clear the air. Apparently she was working as a physician in an NGO at that time, and they were required to give the flowers. We breathed a sigh of relief.

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