Snow!

We thought that with the thaw underway yesterday we’d be able to ride our bikes soon but woke up to this! As you can see, though, it is already beginning to melt. Last bit of wedding dress fixery has been completed, only have left to find good dry cleaner and potentially purchase storage bag. Ooh! [...]

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Bike vs Body

Since arriving in London two weeks ago, it has been go! go! go! and I have been riding my bike at least 10 miles nearly every single day. Several days it was more along the lines of 20-30 miles a day. After four months, during which time I only managed four rides, I have lost [...]

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At Long Last!

When I arrived in London I had possession of four bags, two of which contained 89.4 lbs of stuff in them by themselves. Traveling from Heathrow Airport to East Dulwich is no picnic, especially when you’re trying to transport a wheeled duffle bag, a giant camping backpack (bigger than dude-sized as the boyfriend said when [...]

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I Can’t Believe I Ate the Whole Thing!

Americans will remember the Alka Seltzer commercial where the dude wails that out but in this case, it is not I, in bed at night with heartburn but in the chair, in the afternoon, surprised that I have consumed an entire tub of Kozy Shack chocolate pudding. I have been on a mission to eat [...]

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Everything Old Is New Again

Lately I’m whining about how hot it is, I feel like I’m melting and it’s one third of the way through November. I know I’m just being a wimp, especially after weathering supra-106 F temperatures in northern California. You want to know what it’s like to be cooked, that’s where you’ll find out. NYC and [...]

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I wish I had better video capability

I swear to god, this country’s weather is insane! I can’t stop talking about it! I want to do a video of a rainy day. It was raining! Then it wasn’t! And the skies were blue! And then the sky was black! And it was raining really hard! And now it’s just spitting. Forgot to [...]

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Tube Strike

For the second time in nearly four years I am in a city faced with a massive transportation strike. December 2005 saw a 2 day strike in New York City. I worked in the city and lived in Brooklyn at that point, and didn’t have any mode of transportation aside from my own two legs. [...]

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Oh Hai, Rain!

Can you believe it’s raining again? Oh wait, no, the sky is a beautiful blue. Wait, no, it’s cloudy again. Were it not a complete and utter shock every single time the weather did its highly-varied dance of confusion, I wouldn’t post about it so often. I swear, it happened all within about 20 minutes [...]

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A Query and More

We finally fixed the side gate, the access to our part of the building. It hadn’t been secured since before we moved in and was keeping one of our roommates up at night with the incessant screeeeee-ing and banging in the wind. It’s a pull-style latch and the boyfriend’s worried someone will yank on it [...]

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The Rain in Spain Stays Mainly on the Plain

Man, the boyfriend has warned me a couple of times that you can’t take for granted that the weather will stay the same here for any length of time. For instance, last Thursday, when it was totally warm when I set out and then became shudder-inducingly cold by the evening, and we still had the [...]

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