Friday night was the company Christmas party, where I couldn't get anywhere near as drunk as I wanted because my stomach was acting up. I'm not sure what it was. I don't think I ate any bad food, because no one else got sick. At one point, I thought I might puke, so I went into the bathroom and sort of hung out there for awhile, contemplating how ( Read more... )

Best moment of my weekend: Sitting in a window seat (unfortunately at Starbuck's, but, since having a window seat was an integral part of the pleasure derived from the whole experience and Big Forest Green was the only place with one free, I bit the bullet and took it) with a ginormous seasonal coffee-girluccino-concoction writing out Christmas ( Read more... )

I go out and get piss drunk with people I just met.

Then I can take pride in being at work with a hangover. On a Wednesday. Rocknroll. 

 I was so exhausted by the end of my Thanksgiving dinner for 21 that I passed out on A's couch before all the guests had left. But it was worth it and, if I do say so myself, the food was pretty damn good. The pumpkin pie was glorious, I made a crust fit for a king. But silly Germans aren't into pumpkin pie, so they went for the pecan, which was ( Read more... )

I <3 train strikes. They are what allow me to experience the joys of the 721 bus, aka the Pukeytown Express, on my morning commute. Today, however, it wasn't the serpentine roads that made me want to vomit, but rather the manners of our busdriver, who cussed out a passenger this morning because she couldn't leave the area in the front of the bus ( Read more... )

The only thing I did this weekend worth mentioning was bake a pie. And although I forgot to add milk to the filling, thus (I think) fucking up the consistency and making it unable to bake up properly (the top was all crusty and the bottom all mushy*, rendering it impossible to cut neatly), it tasted AWESOME. I found a recipe that doesn't require ( Read more... )

I had been wondering why S, this creepy, stinky programmer (and that's even by BSC* standards) that I have the pleasure of working with, asked me out yesterday seemingly out of the blue. Now it turns out that sleazy E, my former officemate, is the person behind it. Apparently E had told S he should ask out one of the girls on our floor "
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I've never been impressed with German Halloween. This is because it's not an original German holiday and, as such, it's even more blatantly commercial than Halloween in the States. Someone here saw what we've done to Halloween, saw dollar euro signs and imported all the crappy plastic masks and prepackaged candy, neglecting to inform people of any ( Read more... )

It was a wonderful, albeit cold and rainy, trip to the Balkans. Croatia is supposed to be one of the sunniest coutnries in Europe, but the place was apparently not feeling cooperative while we were there and decided to piss down rain on us almost the entire time. But even the shit weather couldn't take away from the beauty of the Stari Grad in ( Read more... )

 Off to Dubrovnik for the weekend. Will keep you informed of any progress towards the Goal.