Just got tickets to go to Edinburgh, Scotland for one of the biggest New Years celebrations in the world. Hogmanay ( Read more... )

Because of our trip to Prague this weekend, Matthew and I decided to plan Thanksgiving dinner for this past Sunday. After a lot of planning, a lot of stress, and a lot of searching for impossible ingredients (including the mission of finding a turkey), we did it. I started cooking on Saturday because, besides the green beans and the pecan pie, I ( Read more... )

Ward and his friend Taylor are in town visiting on their way to Germany. I hadn't seen Ward in a couple of years I think. It's been great reminiscing about old times with everyone. Lots of UCB quotes and GI Joe PSA parody quotes being said. We went to the Museum of Contemporary Art the other day. Usually I hate modern art but this museum was ( Read more... )

I was having a dream about Michael Jackson (?) and all of a sudden, I was woken up by this:

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I love France.

It's such a beautiful day today. I woke up at 8am to go run a million errands. Did the CAF so I can start getting money from the state, went to SMERRA to get more money, finished my carte de sejour stuff so I'm not living here illegally, bought the new Sigur Ros CD and DVD (sooooo good by the way), and had lunch. The weather is great and the trees ( Read more... )

Just got back from London this morning. Running off of 3 hours of sleep due to my plane leaving at 7am and needing a 3:30am wake up call to have time to get to the airport ( Read more... )

London tomorrow!!! Iron and Wine on Wednesday!!! Stoked!

I just got back from Amsterdam yesterday. What an amazing trip. That city is incredible. The weather was PERFECT fall weather. Absolutely beautiful and there is so much stuff to do and so much great food and people and everything. I'm in love ( Read more... )

Oh man. The All Blacks AND the Wallaby's lost yesterday. Sad news for the top two teams in the rugby league. Great news for France though since they are now in the semi-finals for the cup! The whole city was celebrating last night's win. People were driving down the streets and honking their horns continuously, singing from balconies, singing in ( Read more... )

Our fridge REEEEEKS and we cannot figure out why. And it's not all the smelly cheese. That's good smelly.