What can you say about a travel day? The airport was a breeze, and other than the fact that I was seated in the children's section, including a seat-kicker/whiner behind me [with a negligent mother], the flight was fine, too. I sat next to an old couple from Pakistan...They were nice &were headed to Cambridge. Customs was easy enough & finding ( Read more... )

I'm sure you've all heard by now of the events in London yesterday morning. I wasn't directly affected at all, in fact, I was participating in a celebration over the fact that we procured warm toast at breakfast when the attacks happened. However, the comments I make here are solely from my watching BBC nearly all day in the presence of native ( Read more... )

OK, so any recent comments I made about traffic being better, I hereby retract. I had to take our new kitty in to the Humane Society to be spayed yesterday and pick her up this morning. Sunday at 0700, traffic was a snap. (On a side note, I can't believe how well behaved this cat is - especially in the car). This morning was another story. ( Read more... )

Ok, so I'm marking off things in all these guide books that I want to see while in the UK. I've put little sticky note arrows on my map of london, so I can plan a walking route(s) to efficiently see most of what I'm interested in, and I've looked at the london theatre guide online for what's going to be running. Is it so wrong that I want to see ( Read more... )

yeah yeah yeah. Ok, so I've taken a 6 week LOA...unauthorized, but how many of you really noticed ( Read more... )

Okay, so recently, this ghost of a species, the ivory billed woodpecker reappeared down in Arkansas. I would say more, but I have a final in an hour, and I think this article (reprinted without permission from the New York Times) makes for very good food for thought ( Read more... )

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Champion!
You've seen 86% of the internet, and shed 73% of the tears...

Congratulations! You're the internet master. You've managed to see just enough of it without turning yourself into a monster.

And don't go any further! It's dehumanizing from here on in. If you ( Read more... )

Your Linguistic Profile:

75% General American English
15% Yankee
5% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

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