“So this is what menopause feels like.”

That’s a direct quote after my boss and I got off of our flight to Chicago this week. It had to be 90 degrees on that flight! And what’s worse, I was crammed up next to this albino mathematician from Milwaukee. The boy had his legs spread as far as they would go and his [...]

The great debate

Ok, I can’t decide what to do about Christmas. I love my family, but I just saw them for what to me is the perfect amount of visiting time – 24 hours – after the wedding in San Antonio. I don’t want to spend the money for the flight, I don’t want to experience holiday [...]

And now back from Cleveland

I went to Cleveland for the weekend to visit my friend Liz. She’s too pregnant to fly so she couldn’t go to the wedding the week before, so I decided to stop in for a visit.

We had a great girls’ weekend – we ate sushi, shopped, she taught me how to make dolma (middle eastern [...]

Had loads of fun in Texas

The wedding was beautiful. The actual ceremony boasted two officiants (one a messianic jew), a gospel choir, bagpipes, a lady singing the Star Spangled Banner, a trumpet quartet, a string quartet, and a salt exchange. The reception included sushi and dancing with good friends. I was mostly on an island with the friends who knew [...]

US Airways Sucks

Not too bad, but some. On my flights, each way, the PILOT took several minutes to explain the new US Air/Bank of America Visa card I could sign up for while flying and receive gobs of bonus miles.
That’s cheating. They have me hostage and they sell to me. It’s one thing if I [...]

Off to San Antonio

For a college girlfriend’s wedding. Yee-haw.

The Alamo
Originally uploaded by AOA-ASEAN Traveling Fellows 2006.

Nostalgia

Grad school

I went to The University of Texas at Austin for both undergrad (English major) and grad (Advertising). I’m still on a listserve for the advertising program and a lot of emails have flown around for the past two days from students complaining that the classes are crowded, scheduled back-to-back, or not offered but once a [...]

Don’t trust this blog yet

I’ve tried this a couple of times before, with my most successful stint writing a travel blog about my three weeks in Peru earlier this year. I’ve had a lot going on in my personal life that I wanted to keep private, and by private I just mean among anyone I talk to, so as [...]