Here’s a picture of the sunrise as seen from my balcony this morning. Which reminds me, mmm. Bacon.

Blogs:

1. About Russian airplanes
2. Raising kids and movies
3. Synagogue in Cairo
4. Secret cinema
5. Religious jewelry at the office

Internet:

1. What do you do if you’re the daughter of a near-dictator? Start a fashion line!
2. How do you manage your computer passwords?
3. Speaking of fashion, your pants are lying to you
4. Spoiled Russian kids
5. Vacationing at a nudist camp
6. Cute! And copyrighted.

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

Just in case you don’t think you’re possibly getting enough of me, I’m also on Tumblr sometimes.  It’s where I put all my random pics and stuff that doesn’t fit into blog posts.

From le blogs:

1. Marinka on what is a normal conversation with her Mama.
2. Neo reflects on lessons for his son garnered from mainstream media
3. Stephanie on how to eat a horse
4. Rick Aster on changing housing trends

From les internets:

1. This is a joke.  No one lives like this outside of New York.
2. Better book titles
3. Eat, Pray, Leave
4. Lil’ Wayne and the economics of doing time
5. Corgi flop!
6. Boyfriend criteria
7. It’s that time again! Yiddish Pop!
8. A book I am extremely interested in reading

Mr. B and I are, amazingly, not going anywhere this weekend.   I have no idea what to do with myself.

Do you remember this, guys?!

Blogs:

1. Mazal tov, guys!!
2. Mark on, does your name matter?
3. Gubbi on America vs. the Emirates
4. Petya on a lost Bulgaria

Internet:

1. One of these days, I will write about how much I hate the Gen Y genre of writing. Until then, there’s this.
2. Condescending, but still interesting
3. Afghani manga. I kid you not.
4. Chale chalo!
5. Have I told you before how much I hate Krugman?
6. When this happened, I was in Ocean City, my parents glued to the screen, crying.
7. Yalla ya Libnan!
8. And, as always, Shalom Auslander

I had such a great birthday yesterday, right up until the part when all of our power went out and only came back at 10:00 at night.  BTW, this is where I was last week:

From blogs:

1. Tiviet on a very cute wedding in Tel Aviv
2. On the perils of the name Quinn by She Suggests
3. I love this pic by Sonya
4. Lindsay on love postcards

(why are so many of my links either wedding or Tel Aviv-related this week?)

From internets:

1. Russia continues to be the worst country ever
2. A roundup of books about marriage
3. Pretty drawings of Tel Aviv
4. On swimsuits
5. Freelance writing bravado
6. “Why I have not been to Maine for 20 years”
7. A woman on the shekel?
8. Visualizing the Fortune 500