I am less nurturing than a desert.
A friend of mine helpflly told me this after I had successively killed two cacti. My first one, Nick, was an adorable little red bubble of a cactus that was part of the decorations at one of my sister’s college flute recitals. I loved him and took care of [...]
My beloved mother is a doctor. A pediatrician to be exact. She’s pretty kickbutt at her job too- she’s an officer in the AAP section on Bioethics and used to be an editor of Grand Rounds. She’s brilliant. And hilarious. And gorgeous. I’ve been told I take after her a bit. So anyways, all the [...]
I’m here! In London, chilling in the common room for my flat.
I’m pretty jetlagged still (it’s past 10 p.m. here), so for now I’m only going to post the link to my (brand-new!) Flickr photostream- with photos I took on the trip/today.
Four Point Report’s Flickr Photostream!
I’ll update this more extensively tomorrow. : )
This fascinating article from The Wall Street Journal last week looks at a new anti-smoking law in Austria and the smoking culture in Europe as a whole.
It makes some interesting points about the social stigma smoking carries in the U.S.A. that doesn’t really exist as much in Europe. Prince Harry is known to smoke without [...]
A friend of mine let me know about this fun “Americans go free” deal Madame Tussauds in London is planning for Inauguration Day.
As the website reads, “To mark the inauguration of new US President Barack Obama, and the debut of his brand new wax figure, Madame Tussauds is offering all Americans free entry to the A-List [...]
Things I’m getting to London too late to see:
Tower of London Ice Rink- Set in the dry moat, this ice rink closes on my 21st birthday and the day I board a plane to London. Tremendously lame. However, I did find out that there’s still a cool “Life in the Medieval Palace” exhibit up through [...]
Creative Commons Photo From Flickr by jmtimages
“And you’ll roll right past those Buckingham gates…”
Teehee.
Anyways, I’m very excited about one of my planned activities in London. Apparently every Friday night, masses of people come out for the Friday Night Skate, a 2-hour 10-12-mile free skate starting at Hyde Park. They play music, skate around the city [...]
Creative Commons Photo from Flickr by dro?d (Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo, Mexico)
I got an e-mail yesterday from Pogolink providing me the information about the wireless internet in my flat in London. Specifically, I’m given an “allowance” of 1,000 minutes and restricted to 1,000 MBs of uploads and downloads per week.
I sat down and figured this [...]
That title is a ridiculous pun on the old Little Caesar’s commercials where this little Roman guy in a toga says “Pizza! Pizza!” I don’t know how well it worked. Hm.
Anyways, according to Wikipedia, the word Visa came from the Latin phrase, “carta visa,” meaning “a document that has been seen.” Which is fairly strange [...]
I found out recently from an old friend of mine from preschool that her sister, who’s been living in London for the past two years attending King’s College on a Marshall Scholarship, is planning to swim the English Channel this summer. Apparently it’s become a pretty set process where would-be swimmers have to reserve a [...]
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