In between

Long time no post! We were in the US for three weeks over Christmas, a trip that was immensely improved by being upgraded to Business in both directions! It was so awesome for the simple reason that the seats can be reclined as much as a recliner and I managed to catch a few hours [...]

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Home for Christmas

I can’t believe it’s time to start thinking about Christmas presents again. We’re flying home for Christmas, three weeks of being exhausted by shopping, family and eating. I’m ready for vacation, too. I’ve been having dreams about work which is not a good sign. Anyway, I’m off to watch the latest episode of House. What [...]

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My very worst job

Blogroll question: What’s the worst job you ever held, and why was it so awful? The worst job I ever had…was one that I really would have enjoyed under other circumstances. Now, it wasn’t exactly a job in the traditional sense that I do some work and get paid for it. No no. It was [...]

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10 year reunion

I’m thinking of moving my blog over to WordPress. I would like to set this thing up like kind of a website of my own, but Livejournal doesn’t really have that many features in its free version, at least not as far as I can tell. My ten-year high school reunion would be the weekend [...]

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Just one thing that I’ve been meaning to post.  An announcement from an American airport, I think O’Hare.  I listened to it for hours and the boarding call came just in time to prevent me from finding the author and doing something evil to him.  I mean, it’s different when these are Native English Speakers.  [...]

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Back in Austria

Lovely, much-needed vacation. But now it’s over. But it’s spring in Austria, which is the most beautiful time of year here, I think. Tomorrow I am joining my fun job on a field trip to Bratislava, a trip guaranteed to be full of English-speaking relaxation and drinking with my colleagues. Fortunately, they are fun colleagues, [...]

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Merry Christmas!

Well, I’m back in America. It’s pretty much how I remember. It’s been a stressful but fun week seeing family and showing Stefan around. He’s met about a zillion relatives so far. And this has all been compounded by the fact that we are engaged! He surprised me at a fancy restaurant in Vienna the [...]

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Last night in L-town

Well, tomorrow I’m off to New York, and thence to Austria. I am so nervous, much more so than I thought I would be. I worry that my tentative apartments will fall through, that I won’t meet any new people that I like there, that I will continue to have guy problems all throughout the [...]

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Ugh.

Last night I went for Karaoke with Drunken Matt and his geek posse. I have always thought of Karaoke as being, well, retarded. But I have to say, that after many many many drinks, it was pretty fun. I sang the Temptations, “Ain’t too proud to beg”, and I rocked, despite the fact that Friend [...]

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Feeling a little better

Maybe it’s just hysteria, but I read this just after writing that last post, and I got a stomach cramp laughing. Dining for a Dollar: A Look at Discount-Store Desserts In a previous survey of dollar-store delights, The Onion A.V. Club discovered what off-brand confectioners have known for decades: Food coloring is cheaper than food [...]

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