I’m leaving in a matter of hours. Soon I will have fascinating things to write about–although I can’t say when I’ll have internet access again. Funny, but it is Hindi that comes to mind: kabhii na kabhii, kahiin na kahiin. Some time or other, somewhere or other. We’ll talk again.
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How to sound like an American
On Friday I returned Don, a Hindi film starring the ubiquitous* Shahrukh Khan, to a little Indian grocery store in Lexington that also rents movies. I didn’t have a chance to make any conversation in Hindi the first time, because the woman at the register was on the phone. This time, when I […]
Holy crap.
I’m really sorry for how it looks around here. I’m trying to understand the mechanics of making my own theme–this lovely tutorial has been of great use–but the style will have to wait. Right now I’m just happy that I can read some very rudimentary PHP.
As a French kid once said upon beating me at foosball (le baby foot), “YESSSSS!”
I got it.
So did Joe, but that was never really in question, him being an upstanding citizen and all.
We’re going to France!
I am in a hotel room in Schererville, Indiana, with Joe. Tomorrow we will drive into Chicago to go to the French Consulate and submit our applications for visas.
I still do not have a crucial part of my application, that elusive arrêté de nomination stamped by the Direction du Travail. It has been […]
I just called France. It took me probably five attempts to get the string of numbers right, but I finally talked to someone at the rectorat de Dijon. It was the crackliest, most muffled of connections, but there was definitely a French man on the other side. What he said to me […]
xkcd for Firefly fans