September 2010

Anniversary and Friday Links

September 30, 2010

Blogs: Anna on the USSR I have encountered these people and they are scary How I feel now Guerilla ice cream This is terrifying French+bagel equals yum Internet: A skill everyone should have Kyrgyz boxer time Foreign husbands in Thailand A movie I want to see Korean adoptees How do you manage your finances if you’re married? How Groupon really works

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Please help me look less like Gaga and more like Coco

September 28, 2010

I am starting my new job in three weeks and I have nothing (new-job-worthy) to wear. I am looking for something business casual but with a formal slant.  Skirts and pants alike are welcome.  I would describe my personal style as “blue” and “on sale” and “OH MY GOD IT ALMOST FITS ME I’M BUYING IT.”   Also, I am short and I hate buying pants.  And skirts that fall above the knee.  Because nothing fits well. Basically what I’m ...

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Books: O Jerusalem

September 27, 2010

I’ve been gushing about this one for the past couple weeks on various social media outlets because it’s one of the best books I’ve read in a long time.  It’s really rare that I’m be sad when books end, the way I was when Jonathan Strange+Mr. Norrell ended, but this is one case where I was. The book goes through, detail by detail, of the battle for Jerusalem during the war for Israel’s independence in 1948, from both the Israeli ...

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New Digs

September 26, 2010

Check it. (for those of you reading through RSS, you gotta click through for this one. Sorry in advance those of you who have finger disabilities.) source

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Friday Links

September 24, 2010

Tomorrow is my personal financial Waterloo- the National Book Festival. Pray for me. I just got done reading O Jerusalem! which is one of the BEST books I’ve read in a long time and you should be reading it too if you’re at all interested in Israeli/Palestinian history, so I’m all in the  mood for some  pictures from 1948. Haganah members in topology class. I could spend hours browsing the Life archives on Google. Blogs: Intense debate on who is ...

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