Goodbye.

I leave at 7:30 pm tomorrow, which is today, really. I lay over in O’Hare and leave at 1 am. Thursday mostly doesn’t happen for me and I get to Incheon at 4am on Friday. Mañana got away from me; I’m sorry Hillman library-ites that I never came back to say goodbye. [...]

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t-minus 8 days.

I may be a terrible person for wishing that a terrible and inconvenient thing had happened, but wouldn’t it have been funny if my dad got pulled over on our way to have breakfast at Kings at 8pm while my mom was drinking a Miller Lite in the passenger seat? So maybe funny isn’t [...]

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I have not accomplished much today.

My saturday crossword puzzle campaign involved much Google.  Did you know that Yankee Candles are made in Deerfield, Massachusettes, which is the second most visited tourist attraction in New England?  That there is a place in London called the square mile which originally contained the East India Company's international headquarters until Edward Lloyds, who did [...]

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Ghana beats USA!

I'm wearing my Ghanaian shirt to mark the occasion.  I can't even imagine the revelry that must be going on there.  Having never watched a football game before, I am suddenly interested in who wins.  I would like to see a Korea vs Ghana World Cup.  Can someone who knows about this sport tell me [...]

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They must be sorely disappointed.

The search queries for pornographic content that lead people to my site never ceases to amuse me.  Sorry, no photos of naked Indian girls here.

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I never thought that religion would come up at the dentist.

My dental hygenist on South Korea, Gandhi, and Jesus:
"At least it's a Christian nation–North Korea now. That would be hard. They're killing their own people. That famine is just terrible." Insert my explanation that Americans cannot get North Korean visas. "But you wouldn't want to if you could?" Then–"My husband [...]

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No more roadtrips, please.

It is becoming a family tradition that one of my relatives will comment on the people who are from the country that I am going to. Let us not forget my uncle's post-Christmas question: "What will you do when you get back from India, Sara? Open a 7Eleven?"
My grandmother's sister asked where I [...]

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I suppose I shall fear no evil.

Little Esther made a display of pictures of Uncle Jack. They, Jack and Little Esther's mother Esther, and their friends, look like the rat pack in spiffy suits and dresses at their country club parties; he's always wearing a bow tie, is barely recognizable except for the distinctiveness of his lower jaw. Esther [...]

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I only have a month left to learn hangeul.

This is how California sometimes made me feel.

Probably because they have dumpsters for this.

But Lake Arrowhead was nice.

Dick Clark owns a house up there. John Candy once did. The cousin's boyfriend's dad gave a boat tour of the million dollar waterfront properties; he'd installed a lot of rich people's alarm systems.
I got my [...]

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Welcome to the Hotel California

Reporting from the high desert on my adventure in not breaking my grandmother while visiting family in the land of Republicanism and Bible camp.  I am learning a new set of vocabulary: LA and its outlaying areas are "down the hill," if you live in the Mojave, you are more simply "from the desert," and every [...]

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Poll question:

Should I take the LSATs in June? Possibly wasting $118 in the (likely?) event that I 1. don’t do very well because I had a month to prepare or (related or unrelated to the possibility of 1.) 2. decide that law school is for losers.
I just spent two days in a cabin in the woods [...]

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