Trial by phone

So, today, after my daily failed call to my special lady friend at the DC Consulate, I called the main office. I talked to a man with the most charming and stereotypical of French accents, only to fail in my mission yet again. “I’m looking for (you know who),” I began.
“Ah yes,” he […]

Pretty!

I’m not a ringwearer, but I am inexplicably attracted to them. Maybe it’s because I can’t make them myself. This one is beautiful. (Wish the diamonds were rubies, though.) And, of course, I like every ring Cathy Waterman has ever designed.

How it all began…

Girly has started a new story arc in color. For those who don’t know, Girly is a silly and cute web comic about a girl and her sidekick (or a sidekick and her girl, whichever). And a cat.

Petition

MoveOn has a petition going to encourage members of Congress to support clean energy. I signed it. You can sign it, too.

Testing, again

Just trying to figure out if I like the idea of “miniposts.”

Experimenting with simpleflickr

Hope it works.

Les nouvelles

And, of course, I forgot to mention the most important thing about yesterday: Joe received his arreté. His, at least, is from the place we expected. Joe’s job will be somewhere in the académie of Dijon. No links to his exact placement because the letter is in transit from Kentucky to […]

More on Harry Potter and Hindi…

This is really just for symmetry’s sake: Joe and I saw the fifth Harry Potter movie today. It is unremarkable, in the same way that all the Harry Potter films are unremarkable, because they are pale imitations of the books.
Anyway, the good stuff: Our film was a big hit at Friday’s extravaganza, […]

The world is safe again…

…now that I have read every last word of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I read the last three-hundred pages or so with Joe, which is also the way we read the entirety of the sixth book. I like to think of it as a good omen that our reading paces are […]

Jewelry

So over on the left I added a little page about jewelry. It is, like everything around here, a work in progress. I don’t know about that table. I just don’t know.
Most of those photos are old. I have made newer jewelry, but I was in a hurry to sell it, […]