It's been two weeks since Anna left for Brussels and a week until I leave to join her. I'm totally psyched about three weeks abroad (and out of the office!) but anxious, too. I'm worried about handing the cats off to my mom for a month, getting ahead on work before I leave and keeping up with it while I'm away, the abysmal exchange rate, learning ( Read more... )

Me: Two nights from now, you'll be on the big airplane, crossing the big ocean that my ancestors took weeks to cross on a big boat.

Me: Your ancestors didn't go anywhere on a boat. They just stayed where they were.
Anna: They were traveling domestically.

a few new photos. 

A cup of coffee and my bags are packed
The same vow not to look back
Familiar emptiness inside
As the distances grow wide

And though I vow to memorize
The last look in your loving eyes
It's here dusk and there dawn
Oh it's like a curtain getting slowly drawn

--e.s.

Hi all. I'm here, alive, kicking, and all that ( Read more... )

Uploaded some new photos on Flickr. 

Hello, cruel world. Joking! You're not that bad.

I'm typing up this trash on my new macbook. The little Dell that got me through my last year of law school and the big bad bar finally threw up the blue screen of death over the holidays. The CD drive hadn't worked for months, the battery would die after only 20 minutes unplugged, and crashes were an ( Read more... )

Wow, way behind on posting! If you wonder what I've been up to lately, swing by thepricewasright.blogspot.com and read about what Anna and I have been doing.

The latest news with me is that I have high blood pressure and anxiety-related chest pain. No joke. If I'm going to be a mess like this anyway, I should have just gone to a firm where I'd at ( Read more... )

My desk lamp at work has gone missing, and I forgot my wallet that held my lunch money. No food and no light today. Shoulda stayed home.

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Saw this on tv this morning. Laughed out loud.