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I can’t believe I’m flying home tomorrow and it’s back to reality.  I’ve sort of forgotten this concept of “work”; it seems strange that I will wake up Monday morning before the sun is up, put on dress pants (ugh) and a sensible top, and go to this place called work.
I’ll put up pictures from […]

The cousins were confused as to why D and I thought this sign was funny:

Then again, it took me a good five minutes to figure out why they were snickering when we mentioned a shag carpet.

I was going to motivate myself to write a bit about London and Prague. Yeah, right. Instead, Little Sister and I somehow ended up looking at footage of Bush-isms on YouTube for about two hours. At some point it all started to repeat; one man, no matter how idiotic, can’t be expected […]

My cousin had a day off from work so we drove to Swanage, yet another coastal town with winding cobblestone streets and old-fashioned inns.  After a bit of walking around we decided that all these towns are starting to blend in together but at least there is never a shortage of good fish-and-chips places.  We […]

There is so much beauty in the south of England. Yesterday my cousin Marcin took me out to Hengistbury Head where we walked around for almost two hours:
It was super windy and very cold but we couldn’t get enough of the fresh air and lovely views (which no photo can do justice):

Today I was […]

I finally have a bit of time to write a few things. Having a good time in the UK but it is bloody cold (especially on the coast). London did have nice weather and I got to walk around, eat fish and chips, and discover my new favorite store Paperchase:

The cool thing about […]

Some folks we know have gotten a case of the bedbugs (no it’s not me, honestly, it isn’t) and I decided to read up on the topic on Wikipedia. Yeah…ummm, next time I’ll find a better way to spend 10 minutes, like picking my nose or pouring bleach in my eyes. But now […]

I am normally too cynical to get excited about a politician but hearing all the great things about Eliot Spitzer when he was attorney general made me think that he was different. I was so psyched when he was running for governor. Here was a man who wasn’t afraid to go after corrupt […]

D has a cousin who watches movies every free moment of his life.  His taste in movies is fairly limited - guns, boobs, and bucketfuls of blood.  He’s always lending us movies, telling us how good they are and how much we will enjoy them.  We take them to be polite, often with no intention […]