Holy crap! It's so random that I happened to look at The New York Times book review just now, as it's something I've only read a handful of times before, but what did I find ( Read more... )

So, regarding my country of exile, I decided to give my long-stem red rose to Turkey. (Did I just make an allusion to “The Bachelor?” That is, like, soooo 2002. Being out of the US has completely warped my sense of American pop culture ( Read more... )

I have some pretty big news that became official when I went to the Czech embassy in Munich yesterday (which, by the way, was a pretty nice trip--especially for a paid day of work).

Anyway, the news is that I'm leaving the Czech Republic for a while. I have to leave the entire EU and Schengen countries because my visa won't be ready until I've ( Read more... )

Squee ( Read more... )

In case you were wondering about my safety and if Leon and I took his fifty-something parents to the Seattle zombie rave as we had planned on our original agenda (Space Needle, Underground tour, party like the undead), we did not go and are all just fine. We went to the Sci-Fi museum instead ( Read more... )

We were awoken this morning around 9:00 by repair work on our roof. Directly overhead, we could hear loud hammering and what must have been stampeding buffalo. Assholes ( Read more... )

I got an e-mail from Sarah Bunting and my letter is going to appear in her advice column today. I'll post it as soon as she updates her site ( Read more... )

It isn't fair for me to write about the wedding without providing pictures, so I'll start with the events leading up to it and hope that my professional pictures arrive in the next couple of weeks ( Read more... )

I got my job offer yesterday afternoon. My new title is Web Producer 2, which totally rocks. I've been so excited that it's been hard to sit still these past few days ( Read more... )

Does anyone know a good place to find inexpensive picture frames? I need 12 12x12 frames, preferably black. I want to hang a series of photographs in the living room ( Read more... )