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my bestie from high school, becca, got me a gift certificate to this bake shop that has various classes, so tonight i went to a truffle making class. i'm not super into cake balls or cupcakes, but truffles sounded good. and my friend rachel went to the class a couple of months ago, and her pictures looked yummy.

as a "blogger," and i use that term very loosely when talking about myself, you're always thinking about situations like a sociologist. who are these women who go to a truffle making class? it seemed that most of them were newly married late-20-somethings and early 30-somethings who think that they should be going to truffle making classes. over half the class was made up of repeat-attendees. they ask about things like cacao percentages and they know what 'summer chocolate' is. they aren't my tribe.

i know it sounds bitter, but you know those girls on facebook who have gotten married, taken the cooking classes, focused on outfitting their pottery-barn households and doing otherwise really stereotypical housewife things. there's no reason why you have to go down that path, especially when we have so many unique opportunities as young people. anyway a lot of it is probably me rationalizing not being married right now, but i wouldn't want to be a serial baking class attendee.

i also noticed that in truffle class, much like in yoga, there's always one man who's polluting the environment. it's great when men join things that are usually dominated by women, but not when they ruin it for the rest of us. in yoga, they sigh, they grunt, they toot loudly. in truffle class, our sole man, who was sitting across from me, kept interrupting to ask questions in what i felt like was an attempt to catch the woman instructing the class off guard. maybe i took too many women and gender classes in college, but all i could think about was how he kept correcting things she said, or trying to find an alternate way to do something. i don't think that's me being biased though.

anyway all of that being said, the class was really interesting. the girl beside me was really fun. we learned how to make ganache, temper chocolate for dipping (which is much harder than it seems like it would be), and i'm happy to have gone home with 16 really pretty and really yummy (i'm guessing, majjy and i have split one so far) truffles.