Jesse, I hear there's some really great RAMEN in the restaurant building just before Porter Square, so close you could walk to it from your parents' place. Including a noodle place that gets major lines.

Speaking of cool food, I had some Soup Dumplings at a Malay place in Chinatown last week. Not dumplings IN soup, you bite into the dumping and there's hot broth inside.

Yeah, there's that new ramen place where Zing! used to be, but it's a different style of ramen, apparently. The lines seem to have died down?

OMG you guys, I am so fucking tired. Why could I not fall asleep last night? NO REASON. And now I have to go talk about my family to a group of strangers and then come back and do my actual job, and I don't wanna.

Speaking of cool food, I had some Soup Dumplings at a Malay place in Chinatown last week. Not dumplings IN soup, you bite into the dumping and there's hot broth inside.

I've had that! It's nifty. I have a recipe and it doesn't sound terribly hard (the trick seems to be to gelatinize your broth so you can. Fill the dumpling relatively easily, and my broth udually gels up well) but I haven't actually made it yet.

There's a place on the lower east side that does French onion soup dumplings. Best fusion cuisine EVER. (They're served in an escargot plate with the cheese melted over the top, and you pick them up with a fondue fork. The dough is thicker than what you'd get in a traditional Shanghai soup dumpling so they're not as awkward to eat.)

Speaking of cool food, I had some Soup Dumplings at a Malay place in Chinatown last week. Not dumplings IN soup, you bite into the dumping and there's hot broth inside.

That sounds delicious!

There's a place on the lower east side that does French onion soup dumplings. Best fusion cuisine EVER. (They're served in an escargot plate with the cheese melted over the top, and you pick them up with a fondue fork. The dough is thicker than what you'd get in a traditional Shanghai soup dumpling so they're not as awkward to eat.)

As does this. I have no dumplings That may have to change soon.

French onion soup dumplings

Where do I meet you at noon?

I don't know, the crouton soaking in the broth is a crucial part of my French onion soup experience. I can't imagine a dumpling satisfying that.

Although as a separate item and not a thing to eat when I really want French onion soup, that does sound delicious.

Mmm, soup. I don't think I have time for soup until Friday. Dumplings are, no doubt, longer off than that.

Now I want French Onion Soup!

I am wondering- in places other than Universities/Colleges, do departments charge other departments for things? That is, where I work, if someone who is not in my department wants to use our conference room, they have to pay us through an interdepartmental transfer of money. We do this so that we can pay the university for our space. This seems like more work than it is worth, and I wondered if for-profit places did things like this.

I was going to say, we do it here! But I also work for an institutional nonprofit. I had to pay the design department to put some logos on a piece of paper.