My good roommate Masato made donuts and left behind a bunch of dough (recipe). Clearly, I decided to turn the dough into cinnamon rolls!

It's pretty easy. Just roll out the dough and cover it with a cinnamon sugar-butter paste. The recipe for my paste is:

• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 3 tablespoons ground cinnamon
• 1/2 heaping teaspoon of nutmeg
• 1/2 heaping teaspoon of cloves
• 1/2 cup (1 stick) of unsalted butter

Just cream the butter and sugar together. Roll the dough so it's about 9 inches in height and 18 inches in width. Cover the dough with the paste. Cut into 2 inch vertical strips to give you 9 rolls. Roll them up and dip them in the remaining paste. Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 20 minutes. Serve with icing. I used this Ermine Icing. Yay!

In other news, life is okay. I just got back from visiting Duke, where I interviewed for the their Statistics PhD program. I thought it went well, but I'm often wrong about these things. In any case, it was great catching up with some old Duke friends. It was a particularly nice surprise to run into a friend from Boston.

The fact that I've been rejected at 2 schools so far gives me some anxiety, but I trust that things will turn all right no matter what happens.