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Monthly Archives: March 2008

So Here We Are

Nearly one week later, and while I have lots of important things to share, like how they call their orange juice with pulp “orange juice with juciy bits,” we would prefer not to pay £13.99 per day for hotel Internet, so limited blogging. And I of course left my list of super-important things to share [...]

England: An Entirely Different Country

Have I told you that we’re moving to England, Internets? For real, this time. Tickets in hand, even (itineraries, anyway).

I’ve realized yesterday that I’ve never been anywhere older than about 300 years, excepting Chaco Canyon and Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump which I’m not counting because they’re natural features and/or not continuous civilizations.

My good friend Eddie Izzard [...]

Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?

Work permit: approved. Online visa application:  submitted. Biometrics appointment in Portland: next week. Tentative flight to UK: 2.5 weeks.
One of the questions on the visa application, right after all of the questions about my criminal offenses, assorted war crimes, and whether I had ever been involved in, supported, or otherwise encouraged terrorism:
Have you engaged in [...]

Cenaida (Mexican Flan)

I became friends with Cenaida by accident, when I called the women’s dean to find me a roommate for my sophomore year in college and the ever-responsible Cenaida had paid her room deposit already and so was hustled to the top of the list.
She was not, contrary to my persistent belief, at any time a [...]