Get to know me better…
Seen at Kerri‘s blog: I want to: make a difference in people’s lives. do something meaningful. help people that are less fortunate than I am. carve out time for myself, daily. stand up for what I believe.
Month: January 2008
The land of unlimited [im]possibility
Sometimes it really baffles me how in the world there are certain things you cannot buy in the US, the land of unlimited opportunity and possibility, without a tremendous amount of effort. I could talk about the non-existence of any kind of bread that would pass my nitpicking examination. [I am very particular when it…
This is ballsy
Seriously. The cleaning ladies in my office have quite some balls. I think I can quite surely assume that they’ve been the origin of chocolate disappearing from my office. My co-worker gave me a belated Christmas present when I returned to the office after New Year’s: a picture frame and some Lindt Lindor Truffels [filled…
I am shocked
I assume most of you read or heard the news yesterday. Heath Ledger is dead. That somehow moved me deeply. I am not even a big fan of his, but I really ADORED his last movie “Brokeback Mountain” and when I, totally unexpectedly, learned of his death yesterday, I couln’t help but think how fragile life is….
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A picture’s worth a thousand words.
This is what the consequences of a “monster storm” look like in CA. © sacbee.com Do you think that would have happened to a brick house? Fortunately, that wasn’t our house … but that was just a few houses down the street. Our weekend has been rough, to say the least. The big storm hit…
A review of 2007
January I started my first year in the US as a resident alien. I had big plans and hopes for 2007, but the year took some really unexpected turns. Most of all I had hoped to find a job in LA, preferrably at UCLA, but that turned out to be a harder task than I…