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This challenge is starting to get difficult. It seems like every time I open my inbox there are at least five different temptations waiting for me. Free shipping on everything! 40% off sale items! Buy one get one free! Hearing about other people's purchases makes me angry. Looking at my favorite blogs makes me angry. Everything makes me angry until I tell myself to cool down and realize I have a closet full of things I've barely experimented with.

I can't wait to look through Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook. My friend Caroline let me borrow it after we bought tickets to see him host a cook-off here in Miami. She says she knows a way to sneak backstage. I have until November to plan exactly what I would do or say if I ever met Anthony Bourdain. But right now I should be studying for an exam.