I've been reading Erica Johnson Debeljak's Forbidden Bread. Erica is an American who married a Slovenian poet and lives in Slovenia, and the book describes basically the cultural shock she experienced when she settled down with him here ( Read more... )

Stressed out. Working on restarting my MS (I think, never quite sure about comparisons between our and American school system). This requires quite a bit more work than I expected, so I'm a bit surly about it. Particularly feeling aggravated against two professors that I had thought would make life easier for me, not harder ( Read more... )

I had a dream yesterday. I dreamt about visiting Maggs in America. She lived in a sort of a 18th century palace in what appeared to be a palaces-filled quarter of an 18th century city, but right when we came there there was a tornado warning and we had to take refuge somewhere infested with brown recluses. :O I kept having that terrible itches and ( Read more... )

From inability to let alone; from too much zeal for the new and contempt for what is old; from putting knowledge before wisdom, and science before art and cleverness before common sense; from treating patients as cases; and from making the cure of the disease more grievious than the endurance of the same, Good Lord, deliver us.
Sir Robert Hutchison

I decided to tighten the Lent resolutions. I started with giving up chocolate, but with me being able to munch on other kind of sweets this didn't really affect me this badly. I decided that from tomorrow on I give up sweets altogether - leaving only dried fruit stuff - because otherwise I couldn't even eat muesli and that would rather limit the ( Read more... )

Husband: Are you going to make fudge again ( Read more... )

December runs by with incredible speed. We've got nearly all the gifts, and I'm relatively happy with them, particularly the ones that contain something we created ourselves ( Read more... )

It's been ages since I've updated ( Read more... )

Pravkar sem v emailu dobila kopijo cerkvenih oznanil iz Bevške župnije. V njih župnik sporoča župljanom, da je njihova krščanska dolžnost, da grejo na volitve, IN DA JE NJIHOVA KRŠČANSKA DOLŽNOST, DA VOLIJO CERKVI PRIJAZNE STRANKE!!! Potem pa naprej razlaga, katere stranke so to - govori o levici, ki da bi šla preko trupel, uničila cerkev itd itd, ( Read more... )

I just finished reading The Skinny Bitch ( Read more... )