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Writer's Block: Tea for two
Now this is a good one......
So.
Frederica Potter from 'Babel Tower' and 'A Whistling Woman' by A.S.Byatt. Or, if she's busy, Hercule Poirot. If I was with the former, we would stroll though Swinging Sixties and Early Seventies London going for coffee and talking about literature, art, current affairs, and anything else we could imagine. If it was ( Read more... ) -
On A Lighter Note
As Valentines Day fell on a Monday, how romantic, Jim and I had a lovely homemade meal with wine and honey cake to celebrate. Dinner was chicken in a white wine sauce flavored with onion, red and green chilis, mushroom, and a generous helping of paprika. The chicken was served on a bed of seasoned long grain rice and washed down with a nice, mild ( Read more... ) -
Two Things That Are Not Related.
One: Going to Vienna on Thursday. Have canceled all my classes today as you need a full day ( A FULL DAY) to get all your paperwork together and, as you need to sit around and wait half the time, you need to have time to do so. I've lost, in total, a weeks worth of work. This is SO going to show on my Feb. invoice and, dent an already modest income ( Read more... ) -
Ten
1. I need to go back to Wein, Austria because a) there is no record of my Visa interview and b) my Ceska Posta Notary wasn't enough. Cross post from FB ( Read more... ) -
Medea/Media
I normally avoid politics on LJ as I already talk about it enough in real life and, after a few glasses of bila vino I start tossing around derogatory phrases to describe Tea Party members and uber-conservatives that, really, do no justice to thoughts, opinions, and ideas. Nothing good or constructive can come from calling Palin 'The Alaskan ( Read more... ) -
Ha!
I've been granted a reapplication appointment in Vienna! Like all Visa appointments, its very early in the morning and, will require yet another day trip and time off work, but, the fact that I was given said appointment is a really, really good thing ( Read more... ) -
Hits The Fan
I have been denied my Visa on the decision of the FP. I posted something like this on Fb and while my first entry of 2011 was going to be a chipper recount of my Christmas break, this pretty much put a big, massive, wet, all-encompassing damper on whatever plans I had for the early part of the year ( Read more... ) -
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2011. The future is now...or so I thought. I would have expected more of this time as, when small, 2011 seems eons and eons away. But, now we all art here and whatnot. However ( Read more... )
