Category Trials and Tribulations
Luxembourg is not London
I’m in Luxembourg for a couple of days this week for work. I left the office at 10pm thinking I’d get an Uber to the hotel and then get some dinner at one of the nearby places recommended by coworkers. Here’s what I discovered: The building closes and locks the lobby sometime before 10pm, so […]
It’s not all glamorous
Guess what I had for dinner tonight! Yep. The staple of mission and student years which I haven’t made once in probably nearly ten years. But when you’re starving after a day of apartment hunting and don’t want to eat cold cereal for dinner again and can’t find any nearby restaurants that aren’t what you’ve […]
Getting to Chicago
Because Chicago is such a wonderful mid-winter destination, Amanda and I planned a quick theatre weekend. As if the universe knew we’d need good blog fodder, travel drama ensued: (I’m the blue bubbles, Amanda’s the grey) Fortunately, it all worked out in the end. I got to the hotel around midnight and went out to […]
The Belgians strike again
The past four days have been a blur of all-day business meetings followed by dinners among colleagues and hours of midnight work to catch up on all my normal work that has been displaced by these meetings. Needless to say, I’ve seen nothing more of Luxembourg beyond what I saw on the first day. But […]
Puerto Rico — Oops
We got back to the condo at 9:30pm or so, which of course is WAY too early to go to bed. So Justin broke out the game of Set and we played just long enough to confirm that I’m terrible at card games before devolving into deep “truth or dare” sleep-over style conversations (only without […]
Party season! (Or, I might be crazy)
Here’s how things work at my house during the holidays: [Thanksgiving weekend — decorate house for holidays] First Sunday: It feels so festive! Let’s have a little Christmas gathering! [counts chairs; invites 15 people over for the following Sunday] Monday: [after a stressful day at work] I don’t have time for this! What a terrible idea! […]
The House: Curtain’s up!
Happy news for future house guests: You can now bathe without awkwardly drenching the guest bathroom with water and/or traipsing (even more awkwardly) upstairs to the shower in the master bathroom! That’s because I turned this: “Oh, I know,” said the idiot who designed this bathroom, “I’ll design a bathroom where there’s no way to hang […]
Bee in my bonnet
I have got to stop getting stung in the face by bees. It hurts like heck and makes me look like Quasimodo, only with the hump on my forehead instead of my back. How did this happen, you ask? Well, I was about 5 miles into my 70-mile bike ride on Sunday when a bee flew […]
I’m trying really hard not to hate living in Seattle right now
Okay, so I move to Seattle in the springtime when it’s raining all the time and I’m criticized for using an umbrella. Because why use a device that was invented — and used by the rest of the civilized world — to stay dry when you can just be damp all the time? “Don’t worry,” said […]
Office sleep-over!
If you had asked me yesterday afternoon what I would be blogging about today, I would have said something about my first foray into REI’s flagship store and dinner with a friend from law school at TanakaSan. And while I promise to go back and write about REI some other time (because AWESOME), right now […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 