Since it’s a 3-day weekend and I probably won’t be thinking about the world economy or how ridiculous Putin is, and Mr. B is actually going to the U.S. open to see Novak this weekend,  here’s a comic. Links if you can get to the bottom!

From the blogs:

1. Gubbi’s car dealership in the Emirates
2. Wendi crowdsources her questions
3. Rima is a Lithuanian superstar
4. Should we get up for women?
5. Lea on that Russian food we all know and love

From the Internet:

1. Saving money on lunch at work (something I always struggle with since I’m lazy and love food)
2. I’m still skeptical
3. A pretty for you
4. Kyrgysztan’s birthday
5. The first step in anything, not just web design
6. Should you do a PHd?
7. One of my favorite pics of DC
8. Husband home from Iraq
9. Dress code at work

Let’s just say having 6 birthday get-togethers over the length of three days (for me alone.  Not to mention the fact that four family members have birthdays within two weeks of each other), a physical (a whole event for a hypochondriac), losing power, and being engrossed in an extremely Super Sad book has given me an overwhelming amount of blog material that will come out soon. I promise.

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Today is my birthday, yet again somehow. Here’s my post from last year.

I am really, really lucky to be celebrating amidst a time when everything is ok for all of my friends and my family.  Being surrounded by them is what makes me happiest for my birthday, and I’m going to be spending a bunch of time with friends and also running a 5k with the whole fam on Saturday.

For my birthday, I solicited some advice:

And a conversation with Ari Gold (really, my conscience).

From the blogs:

1. Ramit, from a while ago, on why immigrants save more money
2. Rima, on the perils of bilingual parenting
3. What do men need liberation from, by an Indian Homemaker
4. Mia, on how to paint an Israeli Russian Orthodox painting

From the Internet:

1. The least-spoken languages in NYC
2. More corgis for all, I say
3. An open letter to Sara’s sister-in-law, who planned Sara’s bachlorette party
4. We have met the enemy, and he is PowerPoint
5. How to write a comic book