Help my students by eating!!!

Here is an easy and tasty way to help out some amazing students from Richmond High School. I have a few 12th grade students who are undocumented and are thus, ineligible for federal and state financial aid. My students are leaders at their school: student government, service clubs, and academic clubs. They have worked really hard the past four years to make college a possibility and you can help them get a step closer to their goal, just by eating!

Cafe Cacao (http://cafecacao.biz) in Berkeley has agreed to donate 25% of your total bill to my students. All you need to do is eat there any weekend in February and present a printout of the donation card ( http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddgfrwzj_0t3sdxccw) Easy, right? Cafe Cacao has brunch (french toast, chocolate banana pancakes, poached eggs in rosemary butter, savory egg scrambles), yummy mochas (one time they drew a kitty cat in chocolate powder on top of my mocha foam), and sweet desserts. It was even featured on "The Secret Life of: Brownies" on the Food Network! Cafe Cacao is located right next door to the Sharffen Berger Chocolate Factory, so you can book a free tour to the Factory (http://www.scharffenberger.com/factory.asp) and eat at Cafe Cacao afterward.

Cafe Cacao is open for weekend brunch 9-3 on Saturdays and Sundays. For large groups, you can rsvp by calling 510. 843. 6000
Don't forget to bring this printed card! http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddgfrwzj_0t3sdxccw
Happy eating!

~Amy

fried calamari

i've been having a tough time  :(  as a result, i've been scared to fall asleep without sleeping pills...  i'm afraid that i won't be able to fall asleep and i'll stay up all night alone.  also, i don't want to wake up in the middle of the night and not be able to go back to sleep.  *sigh*

getting up after taking a sleeping pill is a challenge.  even though i give myself the 8+ hours of sleep recommended it fucks with my mind.  Sunday morning I woke up and could not bear to pull myself out of bed.  not only was I weighed down with several heavy blankets, but my mind was hazy and slow.  i stayed in bed, groggy and literally terrified that i wouldn't be able to get up.  it felt like a giant squid's tentacles were tightly wrapping my body and limbs... i kept thinking that the suction tentacles were injecting a slow but steady stream of poison into my body to keep me from leaving my bed.  it was only after i said a prayer that i had the ja-sheen to pull myself up... 

i think i'm back to blogging