( In my mind I'm going to pretend this is what happened to Kara Thrace. )

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but I  will probably never be able to have one because my husband has allergies. So when rosefox and sinboy  needed a cat sitter, I jumped at the chance. (Of course the prospect of not living at my in-laws and yet still living in the city for a week was also quite tempting). I'm loving the pleasure of a cat purring next to me on the couch as I type.

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So we have been looking and looking for a house in Queens. As you know Bob, the plan was for K and I to buy a 2 family house with my brother in Queens so that we would live in one section and he would live in the other. Our requirements were that it be near the Woodside LIRR train station and the subway ( Read more... )

Re: RaceFail 09: I've been listening and skimming. I chose to stay out of it mainly for my own personal sanity because getting involved in fights on the internet is too much of a giant emotional time suck. Moreover, I'm kind of a cynic when it comes to arguing things about race and politics; in general, I think it doesn't work and it leads to bad ( Read more... )

As you know Bob, I'm currently living in Flushing, Queens with my in-laws while we are house-hunting. While living with the in-laws is well, living with the in-laws, I am having a fabulous time exploring restaurants in all over Flushing and the rest of Queens. I'm the kind of food snob who will eat anything from a street cart or a hole in the wall ( Read more... )

My schedule for this summer freed up a little and I can probably go.

I know, I've been pretty quiet online lately since coming back to the U.S. Part of the reason is that I'm currently living with my in-laws who do not have internet in their house (they're an older retired couple who have lived computer-free their whole lives and have no reason to change that). When I do get internet, I've been house hunting and ( Read more... )

Happy Chinese New Year! May you have a wonderful Ox year!

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In returning to America, one of the roughest things to re-adjust to is the food. Not only did we come back from eating a very healthy Japanese diet to the sugar-heavy, ginormous quantity American diet, but we came back during the holidays, which (although yummy and amazingly delicious) wreaks havoc on everyone's diet in general. I've gained like 5 ( Read more... )