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London &c: London!

06.22.11 – 18:06

Okay, FINE—in an attempt to back away slowly from the slippery slope ending in All Sheep, All The Time, we will now turn our attention to our delightful London &c Trip. After my parents went back home, we had a few weeks to ourselves before Stephan’s sister (Ronda) and brother-in-law (Bill) arrived in London. [A [...]

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Exaggeration for Effect

06.05.11 – 19:06

For literally years now, I’ve been wondering what British people say when they’re hyperbolizing about a sure bet. For instance, I will bet you dollars to doughnuts that our weeks of dry weather will be broken at precisely the time I’m walking to and/or from town tomorrow. But seeing as the Brits don’t actually have [...]

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You Look Like A Monkey

03.23.11 – 22:03

Great news, Internets: it’s almost my birthday! The way we know this is that today is actually my brother’s birthday. Of course, he and Stephan have a hilarious joke amongst themselves regarding how, since they were born in the same hospital five days apart, chances are high that they were switched at birth. At this [...]

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Google Voice: Ruining Lives Since 2009

05.04.09 – 20:05

No, this is not what she actually said.

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This Will be on the Test

04.19.09 – 12:04

Hiya, Internets! So I’ve been quite busy lately spending 4 weeks working in London and 2 weeks entertaining my favorite parents. This is what I did: National Portrait Gallery which, among other things, houses all of those portraits of Henry VIII’s wives that you see in books and never actually realized were real, also this [...]

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I Can be Your Hero, Baby

02.10.09 – 17:02

When we stayed with Stephan’s sister and family at Christmas, they made us play Guitar Hero approximately the entire time we were there. “Please,” we’d say,  “can’t we just go to bed? It’s been 14 hours.” “YOU WILL PLAY,” they’d say. “You will play and you will like it. And stop adoring our children.” Because [...]

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Usefulness Update: Also Applicable to Moms

08.26.08 – 22:08

Sometimes, if you’re lucky, your mom will give you helpful advice like: try ironing with some fabric sizing next time. Of course, now that Stephan is fully MBAed and no longer has any stories about full schedules to tell me, I’ve already managed to foist off all button-down-shirt-ironing duties. But I hear it works great. [...]

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Pseudo-update

02.26.08 – 22:02

Guess what, Internets? We are still here; we have not passed go, we have not collected £200. Still waiting on a work permit, which means still waiting to go to San Francisco to apply for our work visas, which means still no tickets even. Not still waiting to move out of our apartment though! Or [...]

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The Apples, They Fall

01.12.08 – 08:01

Before the CD lapsed into obsolescence, my music listening program went like this: listen to one CD over and over until I get sick of it and then don’t listen to it for a few years. Now with the iPod, I can at least listen to multiple albums of the same artist on a constant [...]

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We Meet Again

10.19.07 – 21:10

Remember that one time a little over a month ago when I posted about the horrible injustice of working a 40-hour week? That was before I worked a 70-hour week to do all of the desktop publishing and 70+ graphics for a proposal. While I was sick. So that was pretty awesome. Two weeks later, [...]

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