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Yogurt shouldn't hurt
I've spent a long time now (altogether, albeit in very short bursts over several years) considering the implications of the UK spelling of the word yogurt, with an h in the middle of it. "Yoghurt", to me, subconsciously suggests hurt, which makes it an unappealing concept indeed. My recent discovery that people in the UK often pronounce it ( Read more... ) -
Being in college but at the same time not.
UB is entirely different from Naz. That much was actually obvious from the outset, but what I'm not sure I was expecting was how different my experience would actually be, being still an undergrad ( Read more... ) -
Living in Buffalo may confirm my distrust for human nature yet.
Why are people so flaky?
I was supposed to have five demos so far this week. So far I've had one, and only one of the two more I should have had will go off, unless it gets called off in the next hour. As recently as 1:30 I thought I was going to have two today, but as I was on my way to my 2:00 appointment, I pulled over into a parking lot to ( Read more... ) -
Chain-link fencing foil
Done with Cummins for good; there's not a great deal that I think I'll ever miss about it. A month and a half in Amherst and I think I'm pretty well settled in. At least my room looks like the kind of place I might have lived in ( Read more... ) -
Live from Room 119 of Lycée Pierre Bayle in beautiful Sedan, France...
I'm supposed to be teaching right now (or at least, in charge of a small class), but they didn't show. Not sure what's up with that, but I didn't see their teacher in the salle des profs when she's usually there, which means she's probably sick. And since my class just *happens* to be in a computer lab, I will take this opportunity to update, as ( Read more... ) -
There should only be one Jimmy Dean
And frankly, it's not the actor ( Read more... ) -
E-mail archive #21: "I have returned."
Dear Friends ( Read more... ) -
Arrêté de nomination
LGT Pierre BAYLE
rue Rogissart
08200 SEDAN
Sedan has a population of about 20,000 (a third bigger than Jamestown) and a train station with direct service to Rheims, Charleville-Mézières, and Metz, and is only about 10 km from the Belgian border; I could pretty much walk to Belgium from there. I am psyched. -
Palindromes
Baas, neem een racecar, neem een Saab. (Boss, take a racecar, take a Saab ( Read more... )
