I mean, holy shit. I really delivered someone's baby. It was amazing. I'm kind of proud of myself.

I told everyone that I was planning to make this last week a big one. I told people that if I wasn't hungover by week's end, I had done it wrong. I need to learn to be careful what I say to Barras' friends. You'd think I'd know this by now, but the lesson never seems to sink in. Last night, we went out for fondue in Carouge, south of Geneva, and it ( Read more... )

It had to happen eventually. Last night, my computer had an unfortunate run-in with the floor, and now the screen is broken. Thankfully, the computer still appears to operate without trouble, so I haven't lost anything important and it's just the screen that needs fixing. This, however, cannot happen until I return to the US because Mac things in ( Read more... )

I woke up on Sunday late in the morning, without any clear picture of what I wanted to do. I had been talking about going to Basel for Fasnacht, but unfortunately, no one seemed as enthused as I was about going 3 hours north, watching a carnival parade at 4AM, and then hopping the first morning train back to work on Monday. Can't say I blame them, ( Read more... )

Now that I'm down to the last 10 days, I'm really starting to think a lot about what I'm excited to come home to, and what I will miss about being here. This list will change a lot over the next week, I think, but I want to document it all, so I don't forget to thank everyone for the parts of it that they contributed to.

What I will miss.

1. Everyone ( Read more... )

Not totally sure how I'm going to get it all in. But here goes.

24 Feb, Culinary Dare #1: Haggis.

About two weeks ago, Barras and his friend Kirsteen (whom I went skiing with) decided to trade off making dinners on Tuesdays, and being around all the time, I got grandfathered into the agreement. SWEET. Kirsteen went first, and being from the Isle of ( Read more... )

I found something interesting in my purse today. It's a scrap of placemat from Cave Valaisanne on Chris' last night here. After some debate about whether or not "avarice" was the same as greed or envy, we finally managed to remember the full list of deadly sins. Then, because I always find it interesting what people think their weaknesses are, I ( Read more... )

Thursday, 19 Feb

On Thursday of last week, a tall drink of water better known to some as Chris Scholl came to Geneva for his debut on European soil. I was very honored to be the first to get to show him around, and I took my hosting responsibilities VERY seriously. There was a lot of good food and drink to be had. So we started strong:


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I know I have been neglecting you. There is just so much going on here! It took me ages to write about Valentine's weekend because I spent much of the holiday making a gift for Mike and Abby's wedding, and since then, life has been busy. Chris came to visit last weekend, which was so much fun, but did not leave time for writing. Don't worry, I will ( Read more... )

As if electing to go to a nuclear physics center on Valentine's Day wasn't strange enough, my weekend got weirder still, despite our every intention to do very normal things.

Saturday, Feb 14

Sam's last weekend. It was Sam's last weekend in Geneva (!), so we all went out for dinner in Carouge, the small town just to the south of Geneva. We had ( Read more... )