May 2011

Greth Becomes Her.

May 31, 2011

In Zug, not far from where my mother lives, there is a statue of a woman bent under the weight of a Basket Full of Fool. Here: It’s a statue of Greth Schell—as the legend goes, her husband made a habit of going out of an evening and pickling himself at the local Inn, and [...]

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Operation: Shock and Raw.

May 15, 2011

Probably, as you sip your morning coffee, you gaze glumly out the window, cursing the day ahead and longing for the halcyon days of high school science classes. And so you will no doubt be delighted to learn that you are about to re-experience one vicariously, thanks to yours truly. (I am told the experiment [...]

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No.

May 13, 2011

We didn’t get the apartment. It’s too early to break out my new absinthe, especially as I have a busy day ahead of me and I’m pretty sure absinthe consumption would negatively impact productivity what with the tulips on my legs, so I am trying gamely to console myself with something else I brought back [...]

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Schoolgirl Crush

May 12, 2011

I’m going to put up some more Paris pictures tonight or in the morning (you guys, I have SO MANY PICTURES. And SO MANY STORIES.) but I also wanted to give you a non-Paris Re-entry Update, and I’d like to keep the Alexa Abroad! bits segregated so I can put it in a link-y category [...]

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