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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

I've spent the past 24 hours trying to catch up on laundry and to figure out how I ever get anything accomplished when my children are home. (Answer: I don't)

But hey, we're going swimming this afternoon, so that's good.

http://gawker.com/374928/akon-calls-t+pain

AFAIK, we should be around after 7 tomorrow sara

just watched "F is for Fake" and now need coffee.

not related.

I have no idea what that is. We watched Wordplay last night and now all we want to do is work NYT crossword puzzles. However, I could use some coffee myself.

Let me know if anything changes re: tomorrow night. I will put your address in my GPS and plan to come see your house after evening bitch session with other nursing students. And hey, this time I probably won't wind up sitting on your couch until morning!

Hmmmm, wait, is there anything weird I should know about the route from St. Paul to your house that the GPS might not acknowledge? Like, I don't know, bridges out or closed or whatever?

I could look at a paper map if I had to, but it's not the Hastings Way.

OUR ROADS ARE SECURE

AMERICA NUMBER ONE

I'm glad to know that I won't have to try to swim to John and K's house.

i have been surprised by how NOT hot it is here. i was, honestly, really scared about how i was going to cope with the heat, but it's not even that warm. it's actually jordan who's the sissy about heat: he sleeps with this huge fan blasting in his face, while i've got two blankets piled on top of me and tucked up under my chin.

you're calling HIM out for being the sissy about the heat while you snuggle up under blankets?

THIS tell me that it is you who is wussiest.

not that i have a bleedin' clue about Fahrenheit mind.

temperate

i live in OAKLAND not SF you big spazz

i gonna drink beer while watching opera in a park tonight. woot! also boss left early 'to go to the country' because he felt like playing hooky.

okay I am looking at Oakland on MY MAP and the temperatures ain't that different. U BIG SPAZ.

and OMG beer and OPERA.