Just that half a pound. Oh, well. A loss is a loss. Bring on the pies.



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Yesterday was my company’s holiday party, which kept me out until 3 AM. Because late nights are fairly typical of work dinners, I told Chris that I wouldn’t be online to talk to him last night. (Yes, we meet online every evening unless we let the other know.) So he called me at the end of the work day just to let me know he was thinking of me ( Read more... )

I am not going home for Christmas, New Year's, or my sister's wedding. The flight is $1700, and there is no way for me to rationalize that. Yes, I suppose that I technically have $1700 that I could spend on a flight, but I would rather not. That's fucking expensive, and a flight in the spring would be half that price ( Read more... )

When I was in Austria, my sister's fiance Greg sent me a message on Facebook to tell me that they had decided to move their wedding from January 2010 to this New Year's Eve. This wouldn't be a big deal to me except for the fact that I wasn't planning to go home for Christmas this year ( Read more... )

After a five-hour train ride last night, I am back from nine days in Vienna. That was nine days spent in close proximity with Chris, living in his apartment. Aside from two nights out--one at a concert during which I met two of his brothers and his parents and the other at his best friend's birthday party--our time was entirely one-on-one ( Read more... )

My grandpa died yesterday. In the hospital of my hometown, where I am not. I didn't go home for Christmas; I stayed in Prague ( Read more... )

Today is day 24 without internet access in my home. O2, my lovely Czech internet provider, told me that my inability to receive proper service is due to my inability to speak proper Czech. Charming ( Read more... )

I took the internet's advice and gave my parents the bad news before Christmas. Actually, it wasn't a rational decision to let them cope before I arrived; I had become anxious to the point where I could no longer function as a normal human being. I felt that if I didn't tell them, I was going to explode from the pressure of holding in such a ( Read more... )

Leon commented this weekend that I've not been posting very much lately, and although I pointed out that I had three new entries last week, he said that this was hardly anything and I suppose he's right ( Read more... )

Last week, I emailed most of my family about our plans at Christmas, specifically, what I should buy as gifts. No one responded ( Read more... )