My family has been here this past week. For a while before they came, I was kind of nervous. Well, maybe nervous is not necessarily the right word; I wasn't shaking-all-the-time-for-fear-of-what-they-might-say nervous (I've told all my friends here about those two years in high school during which I felt that an outfit wasn't an outfit if it didn ( Read more... )

So, it's four-thirty in the morning the day before the day before my first English essay of the year is due, and in efforts to be more responsible this year, I've decided to pull my all-nighter one night early so that editing is possible. Plus, all of my flat mates are at home for the night for various reasons, and having the flat to myself means ( Read more... )

Since I left Scotland in May, either (1) because listening to one thing on a loop for weeks on end is just a tendency I seem to have adopted, or (2) because something on a very superficial and obvious level of my subconscious wanted to hear ANYTHING Scottish, I've listened to little aside from Belle & Sebastian. In the car on my way to work, as I ( Read more... )

Tonight, my mom and I were chatting as we drove home from her brother's house, and it was all wind and stars and darkness. We had been visiting my cousin who's leaving for his freshman year of college on Friday, and we fell to discussing the subjects of family, parenting, love and the dynamics that result therein ( Read more... )

Having finished work last Friday (being a North-Easterner of vaguely Jewish decent as I am), the logical next step was obvious: time to retire to a gated community in southern Florida. So, here I am, in the middle of my three days of poolside mornings and early bird specials ( Read more... )

Tonight, I bring to you (only a little bit late) the third (and very first American) edition of our monthly series; it is even more ridiculous than its predecessors. So, without further ado, here is my...

( THEME OF THE MONTH JUNE 2006: RED (LIKE BLOOD, SHOES, AND 1/3 OF THE AMERICAN FLAG) )

I went to Europe for the first time in November 2003 to visit my German friend in Cologne, and on the second day of that trip, I visited Paris; I was there for approximately 10 horribly jet lagged hours, eight of which were spent waiting for the Elizabeth to stop taking photos at the top of the Eiffel Tour, the other two of which were spent at the ( Read more... )

This morning, at half ten, my cousin calls me ( Read more... )

Last week, I was in Florida with the cousins and the grandparents. The highlight of this expedition was my two hour long trip to Miami to see the following sculpture by Claes Oldenburg:


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Today was my last Easter for the next 4+ years. Everyone was drunk sauf moi. It was nice, aside from some Kevin drama.