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How I remember the New York Times doesn’t have me in mind: “You had a lot of people who graduated to a level of consumption they could not really afford,” said Adrianne Shapira, a retail analyst at Goldman Sachs. “Two-hundred-dollar … Continue reading →

While I was in England, the temperature stayed in the low forties most of the time, meaning that I, who had packed light sweaters and a heavy overcoat, spent most of my time walking briskly and being overheated.  I was … Continue reading →

Our housemate’s mom called me this afternoon (she lives across town) to make sure I made it in safely, and to see how my cat responded to having someone home again.  And when I was in the grocery store, I … Continue reading →

I slept well, but was still up by 8:00am (after going to bed at 2:00), and by noon I’d taken care of the mail, vacuumed the house, gone to the post office, and had left for the grocery store.  I … Continue reading →

I’m home again, safe and sound.  Although my travel day was long (made longer by the additional five hours I picked up on my flight back), all went really, really well.  From 7am (London time) when I woke up to … Continue reading →

Sydney didn’t feel great today, so he spent the entire day in his room. I, not knowing what was going on and reluctant to leave him on our last day together, also spent the day in his room. But by … Continue reading →

By this point, I thought I had academic institutions figured out.  Much of the fun of arriving at a new university was that of finding hidey-holes in which to read, walks to take, and places to find food or treats.  … Continue reading →

My ugliest ID photo by far to date was the one on my Department of Homeland Security card—I sent in a nice enough photo with my application but somehow it was transformed so as to make me look like a … Continue reading →

Yesterday was a bit confusing, with all of the rushing around, a bit of losing my way, and some very sore footpads.  But this morning Sydney and I both went off to class at 10:00, he to a lecture on … Continue reading →

We had a long day today, leaving Sydney’s professor’s house at 6:50 and tramping around Oxford all day.  I don’t know if it’s that the concrete is hard, or we’ve just done something crazy, but our feet are killing us.  … Continue reading →