Have any of you heard of this book before?

My favorite quote:

Semen is inexpensive to produce and is commonly available in many, if not most, homes and restaurants.

Two things have occurred to me that I should tell you:

1) There was a gas explosion in Heidelberg about 45 minutes ago. 5 people have been severely injured. I am at work, ergo unharmed. My apartment is also located nowhere near where the explosion was. My favorite bar, however, is :'-(

2) I have been watching NIN's "Closer" on youtube all day today ( Read more... )

Who can give me an opinion on this gem?

One of BSC's* products that I am responsible for translating is software for employee performance reviews. Sometimes, although there is a full-time, paid translator on duty, the developers think that they should skip the middle man and write the English texts themselves. Thus we came a hair's breadth away from calling the date on which an employee' ( Read more... )

This first part is really short: I met up with ( Read more... )

I made croissants* this weekend. The dough turned out really well, and I came to truly appreciate the virtues of a pastry scraper. Who knew that a piece of plastic could make life so much better**? My only problem is that the recipes all said something about "proofing" the croissants, but none of these recipes were so kind as to tell you how to ( Read more... )

My fucked up sleeping schedule has permitted me to stay up late at night wondering about things I usually can't be bothered to think about. Tonight, the topic was a boy named Geoff Grahams. He was my first-grade boyfriend. We used to hold hands at storytime and talk about how our classmates just didn't understand our love ( Read more... )

Back in the Land of the Deutsch. Being back in Michigan was magnificent, and the wedding in Toronto was beautiful, but now I'm tired.

As my friend P, who found this gem, said:

Football, fashion, dance, style, Germans. That combination was never going to work.

The text message I sent to 14 of my international friends today:

On behalf of the American people, I say "You're welcome".

It's been a long 8 years. I deserve a second to be a snot.