After spending many, many months making fun of Internet quizzes, I have finally created, as a way to make fun of Internet quizzes, an Internet quiz ( Read more... )

I'd been kicking myself for never getting out to photograph Red Square in the snow. See, in late February, it went straight from a high of 6 degrees to a high of 36 degrees, and everything melted and the snow never came back ( Read more... )

"The best definition of man is: a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful."
--The narrator from Dostoevsky's "Notes from Underground"

I was just "talking" with my friend lastcallforcorn about an old coping strategy of mine. When my life got really bizarre, I tried to be even weirder than my life, just to show it who's boss. Helps me keep my sense of humor and feel like everything's not totally out of my control ( Read more... )

• We are about to embark on a quest for good hangover food in Moscow. It's called the Starlite Diner, and it's a no-kidding, honest-to-goodness diner. I usually hate the idea of eating American food in foreign cities, but right now, I think I need Eggs Benedict.
  
  
• There is a confused little bush in front of our apartment building that has started ( Read more... )

Today is feeling very un-Moscow, and I'm acting a bit not-Scotlike, and it's great. You friends currently in the US with your 80 degree temperatues may laugh at me, but the 5 months I've been here have been almost entirely winter, so my basic definition of what "Moscow" means includes "cold" and "dark ( Read more... )

Here's the icon the BBC is using to describe today's Moscow weather:


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Look what's back at our grocery store:


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"Oh yeah," say Jenifer's parents. "There's a tree limb smashed through the roof into the cat room. We forgot to mention that ( Read more... )

So Americus' local newspaper is now reporting that the tornado started on South Lee Street, "destroying several of the historic homes ( Read more... )