HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLOG!

It’s been a year since I posted about that fruitcake!  Wow!

I would love to get this etsy card!  Also this is what showed up when I googled ‘birthday celebration women math’

My favorite baked goods of the year:

• Fruitcake (the very first one!)
• Pavlova
• Molasses cookies
• Raw vegan brownie bites
• 1-ingredient chocolate mousse
• Pecan pie

My favorite math-content posts of the year:

• Quasi-isometries and an open problem in geometric group theory
• Ramsey theory
• Curve complex stuff: 1- Intro, 2- dead ends, 3-connected.  My favorite of these is the connected post.

My favorite other posts of the year:

• I am a woman in math
• Why should we do math?
• Read about women in science
• I am still a woman in math

Not gonna lie, sometimes I look back at my blog and random posts and giggle to myself at the puns.  I just did that with the puree pun in this post.  Wish I could make a list of my favorite puns of the year but there are far too many.

THANK YOU very much for reading, whoever you are!  It’s been a fun year and should continue being fun as I go further in my Ph.D. journey.  Oh a few weeks ago I got my candidacy letter (and promptly put it up on instagram).  Coming up in the next year: a better layout for this blog (it drives me nuts!), more baking, more math, more non-baking cooking, starting with my mom’s thit kho (Vietnamese braised pork) recipe!  Tomorrow I’m going to be baking a turducken in my cousin’s oven; it’ll be the first time my family’s eaten my turducken.  Wish me luck, and happy Thanksgiving =)