Category Trials and Tribulations
Silver lining (but still not enough sleep)
So. Guess what I see after twelve hours of waiting in the airport for the next flight to London: Deja vu! A quick scramble, momentary hope for a flight on another airline to a different London airport, then bad news, a voucher for a night’s stay at the Ibis, a brief fight with a taxi […]
Thief in the night
My iPhone was stolen tonight. I had just alighted from the bus and paused on the sidewalk to finish reading an email, when around the building (on the sidewalk, far from the street) zoomed two guys on a motorcycle who snatched the phone from my hand and sped off. Bystanders expressed a moment’s sympathy and […]
First snow!
I woke up early this morning planning to spend the day at my desk toiling at a big project for work that is making life, well less happy and balanced than I would like. But I saw something odd on my alarm (which shows the weather) — could it be?! Yes, it was! So I […]
Empty row
Just what you want to see when you board an 8.5 hour flight, especially when you have that Excedrin-induced post-headache hit-by-a-truck feeling. A nap will not be long in coming…
There may be a reason you haven’t seen pumpkins used as vases before
Cute and whimsical for a seasonal arrangement? Yes. Good at being a vase? I’ll let you be the judge: After only five days I discovered that the pumpkin had melted into a mushy, moldy, leaking mess. I salvaged what I could….
Resilience
Let’s say you were chopped to the ground, uprooted, flown across the Atlantic, and buried in foreign soil. How long would it take before you dusted yourself off and pressed on with your life? As you think about your answer, please consider that it has taken my shamrock less than a week (see the story). […]
Salmon at midnight in Madrid
When one misses one’s flight and gets in to Madrid too late for a proper dinner, one makes do with smoked salmon and sparkling water. Life could definitely be harder.
Changing perspective
I felt a bit blue tonight. Work has been really intense lately. I closed a major deal on Friday which should have many that I could finally relax a minute this weekend. Only I’m so far behind on a number of other important projects that I had to jump right back in. After working through […]
Fire and fury
My landlady’s definition of a proper clean and my definition of a proper clean are not the same. I had her clean the flat twice before I moved in, and while the second attempt was a much more valiant effort, the bathroom still wasn’t habitable. Because mildew. Even after two allegedly “professional” cleans there was […]
Homeless! Homeless?
You guys. It’s a travesty to all that is bloglike that I have not been live-blogging my flat search here in London. Talk about trials and tribulations! To catch you up, let’s start with the cast of characters. Where would you rather live? New River Head — A tiny one-bedroom flat on the third floor […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 