Three bites of heaven. This is why you always go to weddings where the bride lives in Belgium. (The Maid of Honor was clearly onto something when she persuaded the guy with the left-overs to give her an extra box. If only I’d had the presence of mind to get in on the deal!)
Saturday morning before the wedding was a study in contrasts: Niko: He got up at a normal time, showered, strolled down to the dry cleaners to pick up the shirt he’d forgotten to get the day before, watched a few episodes of Portlandia online (per my recommendation the day before) in his pyjamas. Eventually it was time to […]
So. Berlin. There and back in three days. Thirty-six hours of wedding-related eating, singing, partying, dancing, speaking French, not speaking German, renewing old friendships, making new ones, saying farewell until next time. No sight-seeing. Almost no sleeping. On that last point, I’m happy to report that jetlag actually makes it easier to keep up a breakneck pace […]
We arrived in Amsterdam an hour ahead of schedule. Then the Dutch proved to be world champion passport controllers — through the line, stamped an out in under five minutes, definitely a record. So now I have two full hours to eat some breakfast, drink some Spa water (hands down the best water ever) and […]
The upside of going to work at 4:30am after becoming deranged by a series of false fire alarms is that you’ll get a lot more accomplished before 10:30pm than you would have had you gone to work at 8am or 9am like a normal civilized person. For example, you can bill 12 hours at work AND […]
[It’s 4:00am. I enter the lobby of my apartment building after climbing down 8 flights of stairs. The fire alarm is sounding for the third time tonight.] Front desk: Hi, what can I do for you? Me: What do you mean “what can I do for you”? The freaking fire alarm is going off. Front desk: […]
It’s Sunday night and, as I review my weekend activities for blog material, I’m feeling uninspired. Which is kind of unfortunate, because it was a perfectly good weekend. The problem is that I’ve been battling a headache all day, and I really just want to go to bed. I blame it on the surprise pre-General Conference Fast Sunday. First, though, here’s […]
Do you ever have those moments when you realize that you’re behaving like a charicature of yourself? You know, when you do the sort of thing that someone who knew you might write into a scene for an exaggerated sitcom character that is based on you? Well, I do. (Not the sitcom part, but the rest of it.) […]
I think I’m not a fall person. When I was in school in Utah I liked fall because I associated it with the excitement of a new school-year and the fun of wearing sweaters. Now that I just work at a law firm, I don’t have new school-years, and I only wear sweaters on the weekends. So […]
First, a quick update: This weekend is the official six-month anniversary of my getting my new bike. In the past six months, I have spent 78 hours in the saddle, traveled 1,225 miles, and burned 63,500 calories. I’ve only slashed my leg once and crashed twice (I wrote about the first time but let the other one pass […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 