My mother has two German Shepherds and loves them to death. Appropriately, they love her back just as much. Every Saturday morning, rain or shine or snow or apocalypse, she takes them to tracking training, and they romp about in a field trying to learn to follow by scent, and also acquire the discipline of … Continue reading
I’m currently holed up in my room, grinding out an application to study in Taiwan this fall. I think the application process tests little more than fortitude in wading through oceans of etiolating bureaucratic vicissitudes. That’s a handy life skill, I’m sure, and one any respectable candidate should exhibit—but can’t they just ask me? I … Continue reading
Everyone’s supposed to have seen the “Yes We Can” video by The Black-Eyed Peas by now. It’s a nice effort. I find it interesting how much high-profile support the Obama campaign has garnered. A complement to that, of course, is the irrational vitriol against Hillary gushing out of every media outlet. But that’s the topic … Continue reading
Perhaps this treatise will be more familiar to you than it was to me. I tend to stick to the regular watering holes of my RSS feeds when I surf, and so I often miss the goings-on in the internet wilderness. No doubt this meme is already well propogated. Whenever I get a package of … Continue reading
Among the Americans I know here, there’s a lot of joking about the short hours Germans work. This actually started after weeks of being dumbstruck by locked doors of shops and municipal buildings during the first month of living in Munich. Coming from a large American city, it’s difficult for me to understand that stores … Continue reading
It may have had to do with the drinking, I really don’t know. Voluntary alcoholism coupled with sleep deprivation from exams, and I got knocked on my ass this weekend. I’ve been sleeping about 16 hours a day, coughing up all sorts of hideous things, and hiding from light. I couldn’t even use my computer … Continue reading