I am cutting out a boring introduction in which I explain why I haven't written lately. Who cares? I've been busy, and now I finally have the time to write about my trip to the Netherlands, which was amazing ( Read more... )

I was so tired on Friday that I just wanted to go home and go to bed, but Chris told me that he would be home and online, so I got online to chat and play World of Warcraft with him. Eventually he told me that he was going out to meet one of his friends, and this is when I finally tell you about that group he was a member of and that he’s rejoined ( Read more... )

In my last post, I wrote about how I made a new friend named Honza and he and I went to the cinema together. He’s new in Prague, so I decided to invite him to dinner with my friends on Saturday. I was sort of thinking that he might be interested in dating Leslie, because she’s fantastic and he's, presumably, single. I didn’t know because we didn ( Read more... )

I realized last week that my mom and I have switched roles in the way that we communicate with each other. When I lived in the US and even in my first several months abroad, she would write to me constantly to ask how I was. Usually, she’d just send something to say, “Let yo mama know how you are!!!!!” but with a few more typos. Now? I don’t ( Read more... )

I don’t have much contact with Fouad anymore, which is as it should be. He pops up every six weeks or so, usually to ask me for something, and then he disappears for the next six weeks. I think his asking me for things is pure desperation, because I have not given him anything since we broke up, and I really don’t think I’ve given any signals ( Read more... )

On Saturday, I had dinner with my friend Manuel. I was a little worried about it seeming like a date, so I asked Caroline along but she declined. I think she is starting to hibernate-it’s cold and dreary here, which isn’t the kind of weather that makes you want to go out and do things. And this is basically what happened last year. Often, if I ( Read more... )

I have an appointment in Munich Thursday morning for something visa-related, and one of my coworkers will be joining me. But we learned this morning that traveling from Prague to Munich by train takes a ridiculous amount of time (13 hours each way), and flying seems impractical and expensive ( Read more... )

So, after oversleeping for my new job on Tuesday, what should I have done the following day to correct this mistake and begin to make a winning impression on my coworkers ( Read more... )

Yesterday I joined Caroline, Jirka, and one of Jirka's 15 friends named Petr for a wine festival. Earlier this summer, a guy from California asked me if my living so close to Napa Valley for three years had turned me into a wine snob. Not even close, I told him ( Read more... )

Not even a minute had elapsed since I posted on Tuesday proclaiming all is going well here in Prague that I received a Skype message from Caroline telling me that her cellphone had been stolen. So much for peace and tranquility in our little lives ( Read more... )