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American vs. Russian dating

July 6, 2009

I’ve been married for over eight months.  This makes me a relationship expert.  While I was talking this weekend with Mr. B, we got on the topic of dating and marriage.  As we were talking, I thought “If this conversation were public, it would definitely offend the greatest number of people possible. Time to post it!” We decided that Americans are way too picky when they date, for all the wrong reasons, which is why some Americans tend to marry ...

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Heppy Fort ov Dzhuly

July 4, 2009

Heppy Fort ov Dzhuly is what I wish people when I feel like being ironic and sport my FOB accent. But if there wasn’t a Fort ov Dzhuly, I wouldn’t have my ironic accent. Or my ironic keffyieh shirt.  Or an American education, American job, or American anything. I’d probably just be sitting in Russia.  I’d probably have a going-nowhere job and come home to tons of housework every night in my miniscule apartment that was 40 or 50 years ...

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Nigerian Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

July 3, 2009

Today was a beautiful day  in DC. I wanted to take advantage of it as much as possible, so I grabbed Mr. B and we went to dinner at Delhi Dhaba and afterwards stopped over at Politics and Prose to listen to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie speak.   The reason we were so excited to hear her speak is that we had heard about her on NPR a couple weeks ago.  While sitting in our Prius.  Sipping lattes.  And using Safari.  Just ...

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Casablanca

July 1, 2009

Mr. B and I finally got around to watching Casablanca, rounding out the last two people in the Western Hemisphere who have not seen this film.  Because my attention span has been derailed, much like an actual train, by Twitter, my ever-growing RSS feed, and, not being able to watch a black and white movie for more than ten minutes before yelling at our TV to stop being ‘so 1956′, we had to take two nights to do it.  Here ...

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BRIC-A-BRAC: China messes with national stats

July 1, 2009

I like to do a lot reading about the BRIC countries, given that Russia is one of them, they are dominating world economic growth, and they produce 100% of Bollywood movies in the world.  Adam , who keeps the finger on the pulse of China so I don’t have to have anything to do with it, pointed me in the direction of an article that conclusively proclaims that China fudges its economic statistics. Since I work a lot with economics ...

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