This evening, I removed a stack of glasses from my cabinet. I separated the top one from the one below it, and put the other two back in the cabinet. About five minutes later, we heard a shattering noise. When I reopened the cabinet, there was one glass, with the shattered remnants of the glass that had been above it settled in its bottom and ( Read more... )

This was rather frustrating. And quite unexpected. (Stop thinking what you are thinking! That is not how it happened ( Read more... )

In Israel, people don't plan ahead as much as they do in America. They go with the flow, and plans change with impressive frequency. This means you end up having all sorts of experiences you didn't plan on having - and sometimes, they are rather pleasant surprises.

Last night, I had plans to get together with boroparkpyro and another friend (if she has an LJ ( Read more... )

So, yesterday, I went home to my parents' house because I made a last minute medical appointment. On the way to the doctor, my mom and I stopped at Costco - where none of my toiletries existed in bulk. I bought some shorts, but I am probably returning them ( Read more... )

That's what I thought the van parked in Chinatown said. It's much more interesting than what the van actually said - "demolition and carting" - and it also shows how tired I was on Friday ( Read more... )

Yesterday was stressful ( Read more... )

Today, in honor of Independence Day, I did something incredibly American - I shopped. For many hours ( Read more... )

This evening, while heading over to AB's for dinner and learning (only one of which actually happened), I was stopped from crossing Amsterdam at 96th street by a bus in the crosswalk. It wasn't just sticking out into the crosswalk - it was right in the middle of it. The sign said walk, but there was no safe way to walk around it until after the ( Read more... )

Last night, M took me out for my birthday/graduation to La Creperie. The food was good; the dessert was excellent. (of course, the company was great as well...) I had sea bass, and I ate everything on my plate. Including a fishbone. Though that one took a while to swallow - it was stuck in my throat for a few rather annoying minutes. So that was ( Read more... )

Oh wow! I just did a Google search, and came up with one, and only one result! Granted, one of my two "words" was a phrase, but I had it in quotes, so it was still two search terms - I was trying to find more information on the school where I will be interviewing later this week, so I put in the name of the school, and the word "school" - and the ( Read more... )