Houston is pretty desolate when it comes to the bar scene (unless you are into top 40 clubs filled with high school kids). The only club with mentioning is Numbers, which sometimes has decent concerts. There is a hipster scene in Houston, but most of it is annoying instead of amusing. If someone drags me to Bazil again I may get homicidal ( ( Read more... )

So here are my top picks by category, if I missed something or you disagree please comment. Note that this is very Rice area centric (except for Chinese, which you can’t get in West U, sorry kids) because I don’t like driving. Also, most of these places are seafood heavy (though a few of them have fairly extensive menus), so if you don’t like ( Read more... )

This is the first entry I’ve written from within the United States. And I am still not entirely sure I want to do this blogging thing. My life in Seattle will hardly be as sensational as my life abroad and I wonder if it will be worth writing about at all. However, I am quite determined. I should also mention my entries are going to be friends ( Read more... )

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I leave Bratislava on Saturday morning, and I was contemplating what exactly I've picked up during my 2 months in Eastern Europe, so without further ado ( Read more... )

I wrote a straightforward account of my Milan experiences on Monday only to delete it by mistake. Instead of writing it over (which seems unbearably tedious) I am giving a short summary: I saw the Duomo, the Castello Sforzesco, the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, and the Pinacoteca di Brera. They were all lovely. I shopped in the Quadrilatero d' ( Read more... )

I wanted to update yesterday but I was busy booking Milan things. I am very excited about this trip, I haven't done any shopping for two months now, and I intend to eat altogether too much gelato ( Read more... )

I am carrying a 20 pound bag up a hilly part of Graz's Old Town, lumbering under the weight and sweating from the 90 degree heat. "Why don't you leave the bag in a cafe somewhere?" Martin (our resident Austrian) asks me ( Read more... )

This is a long, dull week and the temperature is steadily rising. I can't bring myself to do much work because it is painfully boring to google how something is done in VB 6 and then google how its done in .NET and then change code from VB 6 to .NET. I've been flipping back between my e-mail and hotels in Milan for the past few days. Somehow I ( Read more... )

Thursday afternoon I escaped Bratislava with the other interns for the Pohoda festival in Trencin. I didn't want to miss a day of work, but supposedly there was this big medieval performance Thursday night at the castle. Anyway, we get to Trencin and I find out that Dani, James, and Catharine don't want to stay at the hotel we booked - they want ( Read more... )