On one of our super fun weekends back home, we went out to the Oregon Coast for the weekend with these people we know. There were lots of pelicans there. Seriously. It was almost scary, like in The Birds, or in a short story of a similar nature I read this one time in which [...]
When life gives you a country that thinks “lemonade” is a clear, carbonated lemon-lime flavo(u)red soft drink that frequently tastes vaguely of Alka-Seltzer, buy some lemons, and make your own damn lemonade. So good. BONUS: then put it in your favorite new thermos that your totally awesome favorite friend(s) sent you from home in a [...]
So I’ve never had a nightmare. The problem is that if I am conscious enough to remember it, I am conscious enough to rationalize my way out of its absurdity. Like this one time I had a dream that someone broke into my parents’ house and tried to stab me, only he just repeatedly stabbed [...]
1. Found out that dreams really do come true—at the Cumberland Pencil Museum! Replica graphite mine! Old pencils! New pencils! Pencil-making machines! World’s largest pencil! The best part was the secret WWII pencil: regular type pencils squirreled away from the factory under cover of darkness so that they could be hollowed out and have one [...]
Okay, maybe not you exactly. More like for a new English baby named Oliver who is 3 weeks old. His scarf features the colors of the mother’s football club. He also has one in the colors of the father’s football club, but I figured that mum has put in the most work thus far, so [...]
1. Halloween is just coming into vogue in the UK; we got a single trick-and/or-treater whom we duly ignored. Bah, humbug! 2. Instead, we wholeheartedly embrace Bonfire Night. Technically the 5th of November (as in, “remember, remember the”), but aside from a few fireworks last night, the celebrations tend to be moved to the weekend [...]
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 [...]
So we’re moving to England! Sometime next month, although it will not be official until Cenaida and others who are at the very top of the notification list receive a simultaneous text message confirming our plans. I have been preparing to live in an entirely foreign country by reading things like An American Looks at [...]
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, [...]
I must say, Internets, summertime is a horrible time for blogging. I will not apologize for my delinquency, however, because I know this to be the very height of rudeness: I read in an etiquette book once that one must never apologize for not responding earlier to a letter, as this implies that one is [...]
