For those of you not connected to Jenifer's hometown of Americus, Ga. (where I also lived for 6 years, and where we got married and where her parents live now) it was hit by at least one tornado last night, plus winds that knocked trees over all across town ( Read more... )

Pardon me while I get all proud of myself for a minute ( Read more... )

In HP Book 6, chapter 11, during the quidditch tryouts, Ron is described по-русски as having turned a "нежно-салатово цвета ( Read more... )

After waffling for quite a while, I've finally made up my mind: I definitely like The Decembrists ( Read more... )

OK, friends who knit and who have been wondering what to knit next (because there are actually a couple of you...)

Your mission, should you choose to accept it: sweaters for penguins. No, really.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wear/6367787.stm

Thanks to duckssaymip for this little blog thing ( Read more... )

It's time to renew that time-honored debate over which country has the more ridiculous bureaucracy -- Russia or the United States ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I posted a proper entry, so here are a few random observations on life in Moscow ( Read more... )

So I was all set to complain about the rain I just walked home in. On January 19. At midnight. In freakin' Russia. And it's raining.

Then I read the BBC: hurricane-force winds in Scotland and Germany. And the recent ice storms all across the U.S.

If all I get is rain, I'm starting to think it's maybe not such a bad deal...

This is the funniest thing I've ever read on the BBC, especially after having seen French protests "non a la CPE" last spring...

Sign the petition -- "Non" to 2007!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6222153.stm