“The destinations are crap, but oh, the journey is wonderful.”
At Last
No Friday Links today, but something even better.
»Bye-Bye, Jezebel
Things I Love
Downtown Alexandria at night.
Friday Links
Nothing says “This Valentine’s Day, I love you and am glad I am spending the rest of my life with you” like KATE SPADE. *cough*
»Why Does Every Russian Woman Shop at TJ Maxx?
Friday Links
Egypt gets top billing this week, Hebrew signs and all. With how much I’ve been following the #jan25 hashtag on Twitter day and night, talking about it with Mr. B, watching the (mostly useless) cable news and reading analysis, every time I hear a police siren outside my office building, I jump thinking it’s the Egyptian Army.
»The Internet Tells You Things You Don’t Want to Know
The problem with being from a second-world country that is no longer in the news in a Big Way is that your narrative for your graduate school application in economics will never be as strong as someone who is also Google searching for help on their Statement of Purpose in Economics and turns out to be from Irbid, Jordan. Or India. India is practically on the Economist cover every week. Ho.
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WEATHER UPDATE: Winter still wintering, being bleak
Let me set the scene for you.
»Movies: The Vanished Empire
Take a trip with into nostalgia me to the vanished empire that is the Soviet Union of the 1970s. this movie is all about it. You can watch it on Netflix.
»Friday Links
This is pretty much my life right now:
»Getting Married and Living Apart is Like Drinking Non-Alcoholic Wine
For over a year now, I’ve been reading trend pieces about how more and more married couples are choosing to live apart for a variety of reasons. Some are because of the economy. But some are because of careers that could easily be compromised.
»Life is not fair. If it were, I would be having my eggs peeled for me at Downton Abbey right now.
The absolute best thing to do when one is cold, alone, and without the comforts of Nutella to aid one’s diet is to warm up a nice spot of tea and watching hot British people in the 1920s be assholes to each other.
»Friday Links
I was debating on whether or not I should post this. But, ok. Here it is, the latest find from SKRUG: a car with a front European license plate (of course) that has a Russian flag and says “Yolka,” which means either fir tree (like the kind you have for your New Year tree) or a nickname of some sort. I can imagine some tall, skinny guy in the Russian mafia being like, “Yeah. They call me Yolka cause I’ve done so many needles. ”
»Classes I wish I had been able to take in college
Classes I wish I had been able to take in college instead of Ballroom Dancing so I wouldn’t have to learn from the School of Google right now:
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