mom placation was ironing by which mens perrypops in a womansuit is the new child mystericating teats that can taint baconated digestive broads plastercasting gnostically from the great gospel wwjh

i need a new book. i predicted the ending of that danielle steel 'novel' like 20 pages in.

we don't like a show we LOVE IT

i just found out my college mates had their baby like 20 days early via facebook's 'x# of your friends changed their profile pictures" alert.

hi itr!

She lives! Well, she was already alive.

It's a summer Saturday in America, you must celebrate with a backyard cookout or something.

of tofu marinated in.... something

pig blood

or bacon grease, your choice

John makes things the way you like them!

We're in Madison and back in a proper time zone. I could never get into my car again and be happy. But we're going to go eat some dinner, and I'll probably feel better after that.

(Cuz then we're going to go swimming, yay!)

<3 madison!

It is a nice city!

Today: drive home!!!! I am going to be happy to sleep in my own bed tonight. :)

we went to a restaurant in oakland last night where people threw their peanut shells on the floor!! it was weird.

also: sunsets in oakland are the most amazing beautiful i have ever seen. we were sitting out on this deck at the restaurant and the sun was this amazing blood red - i've never seen anything like it in my whole life.

and i ate a huge bucket of clams. they were great! and jordan was totally cool about kissing me afterwards :)

That last post is the definition of an open goal.

Urgh. I have a nasty cold. Better now than when I'm cycling to France, I guess, but still. Ickiness. Am tempted to just let my nose run, ,like small children do, but it's so ticklish I can't!!

However, I did spend the afternoon playing in the park with friends, and had an ice cream, so things haven't been too bad. I think the cold was duplicating the hay fever so relatively speaking I did okay. How medicinal is red wine? I really want a glass but it's only 6pm...

Hey rubes, for some reason you haven't updated your blog since you got to the US - will this shameful state of affairs continue?

"for some reason" lol

mark, i recommend some whiskey.

How medicinal is red wine? I really want a glass but it's only 6pm...

And you call yourself Italian...

blog will be updated tomorrow! haven't really had time, but jordan has to go back to work tomorrow, so i'll have 8 hours to kill :(

i've been ducking in here to post a little whenever jordan checks his email or we're just on our way out, because i MISS you guys! but tomorrow i will make a big detailed post on my thread about the last few days and also the weird experience i had at customs.

i had my first burrito yesterday! it was nice, except that i forgot cilantro is coriander - which tastes like soap to me - and i got it with this cilantro/lime/rice stuff.

oh no you are one of THOSE.

have you burgered yet?

mmmmm cilantro... mmmmmm

SO happy to be HOME!

And now having a strange craving for burritoes.

SARA WILL EAT YOUR TOES

Only if I think you're special, though.

Deep fried toes.

yes tza, i am one of those people... but i can't help it!

have not burgered yet - jordan wants to take me to the best burger place here in oakland, which he has thoroughly researched, but i just can't bear to make him watch me eat a big meaty object.

Awwwww, you guys are both so sweet!

Maybe the place has a lovely veggie burger that he could enjoy? You are in Oakland, after all.

this just in: working -- still for losers

Thank you for reminding me, this evening I go to the fullbright commission so they can tell me how I can get my school paid for and stop working.

i want one!!!

I would like to be paid to read, watch movies, and sleep.

hells yeah, i need a nap right now. at least boss won't be here for another 30 min or so. but then i will just want to shoot myself. oh yeah, btw, back on the job hunt but at least i'm getting paid for now?

i desperately need more coffee but i can't leave.

I am paid to read and watch movies - except that sort of doesn't work as I'm expected to do both those things outside of office hours.

then what do you do during office hours?

Well, it would still be all right if they would then pay you to sleep at the office. ;)

Mark your job is totes awes.

I don't get paid for anything anymore. But while i was in the pub watching the cricket this afternoon a recruitment agent phoned me up and lined up two interviews for this week.

Yay on the job interviews! Sounds promising. :)

fanks :) just shows what you can achieve when you set your mind to it daytime drinking.

both companies seem quite fun and young and google-esque but i think i'll just be happy as long as i can cycle to work.

that is v v important for quality of life. since giving up on driving to work i have been A++++++ excited about pretty much everything.

What he said. Then again I never drove to work.

i don't drive to work but an hour on the subway with 2 transfers is also not healthy.

If I could take public transportation to school, my life would be vastly improved. So much less gas money and so much more study time...

Then again, subway = underground = I get paranoid about earthquakes due to having seen too many disaster films as a child.

i just miss daylight. also, i find it really hard to study on the train; i don't retain anything, so i use it as podcast time, but now i am supersad bc a) ipod seems to not work anymore and b) npr canceled my favorite show (i.e. 2 hours worth of podcast daily).

Yes, I'm probably thinking it would be more productive than I think it would. Mostly I am just panicked about the driving I'm going to have to do for school in the fall. I should really listen to podcasts while I drive back and forth at least... I got out of that habit this past spring somehow.

What was your favorite podcast from NPR?

JOHN I AM COMING TO THE CITIES ON WEDNESDAY. If you guys are free that night, I might be able to come see your house. I am coming up for a meeting at 4 pm, but then planning to go to dinner with nursing school friends - so it would be later in the evening.

Is ITR dead? Guys?

The shocking possibility that I could be in the Twin Cities has obviously stunned everyone into silence FOREVER