I'm sitting in my new room in my new apartment in Milwaukee. Almost all of my things are put away, my air mattress is inflated, and I've gone grocery shopping. What's missing? My roommates, that's who. There's a bit of a mystery here. I thought this was a four bedroom apartment with three people living in it, but I count only three bedrooms, ( Read more... )

We drove my sister up to the Culinary Institute of America yesterday then my parents turned right around and pointed their van mid-westwards and I took the train into New York. Whooo ( Read more... )

When I grow up I want a big friendly orange boycat to keep me company. They're the best, cat-wise.

Exactly one month until splashdown in America the free.

Thailand was great, again, and I'm hoping to hit the Philippines one last time before heading home. My multiple entry visa to Chiner expired quietly, having been used only once in six months. Oh well. Scarcely more than a month till I'm back on American soil and I've been looking at Facebook a lot and missing you, my friends, with terrible ( Read more... )

Turkey is pretty great. I'm really tired though, and so will have to write more later.

love,
me

Impulse purchases yesterday:

1) Book and CDs to teach myself French.
2) Book, dictionary and CDs to teach myself Italian.
3) Bottle of cheap red wine.

Je suis una very classy mademoiselle.

Ciao bambinos.

I just made a boatload of fresh salsa. My hands smell like lime juice (freshly squeezed!) and garlic. MmmmmmmmIwannaeatmyhands. It's 5 a.m. here but I am not sleeping. But maybe I should. I'm going to South Korea for Thanksgiving. That's right before the Kanye West concert, for those of you keeping track. Too much fun, allatonce ( Read more... )

Okay. So I'd been commissioned to make large amounts of salsa and guacamole for spanish club this week. And since this is Hong Kong and you can't find mexican food ingredients in the Cub Foods just down the block, I had to take a bus and a train into Central to CitiSuper, one of HK's super swanky grocery stores (more on that in a moment ( Read more... )

I want to see this movie so very, very badly. But I think perhaps it will not come to Hongy Kongy land. Certainly not any time soon.

I'm going to a Rosh Hashanah dinner in about an hour. Yay for being an honorary Jew.

There's more going on in my life, of course, but it will have to be written later.