Reader(s)! Please note that sometime over the next week I will be shifting the blog over to http://blog.vickiboykis.com to make room for a front page that doesn’t make me look like a crazed Nutella lover, a fact that people will find out only on the blog. Mwuahahaha. Not too drastic of a change, but you’ll want to update your bookmarks. RSS shouldn’t be affected *crosses fingers* Danke schoen.
»Reader(s)! Please note that sometime over the next week I will be shifting the blog over to http://blog.vickiboykis.com to make room for a front page that doesn’t make me look like a crazed Nutella lover, a fact that people will find out only on the blog. Mwuahahaha. Not too drastic of a change, but you’ll want to update your bookmarks. RSS shouldn’t be affected *crosses fingers* Danke schoen.
»Note: Book for review kindly provided by HarperCollins.
»I’m going into hibernation for a couple of days. Happy 2010 and Mr. B and I wish you the very, very best. Thank you for reading and commenting and making my life a bit warmer 
I came across I came across yesterday, which details the relations between Russia and at Blagoveschensk in Siberia and Heihe in China, across the Amur river.
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Shayna is my friend from college and is one of the sunniest, friendliest people I know. So it would make sense that she would take the sunniest, warmest photos. She recently moved to Florida where she took these pictures of a sunset at a fancy golf course.
»Did you hear about this business at American airports? The TSA is effectively crippling American tourism with its defensive policies, methinks. So does AlQaeda.
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I decided to take a break from dreary winter and recreate a line from Song of Songs. As always, criticism is always welcome. Did I make it….tooo green? Is it too busy?
»I’ll spare you having to see it.
»I had a sushi lunch with a friend in DC last week who works for a big accounting agency in New York City and was working from his Washington, DC office because he was down to see some mutual friends for the weekend. I’d been seeing his online status away messages for the past two weeks. One of them read “24…ugh.” Mr. B saw it too, and asked me if he didn’t like the show. No, I said, my friend just worked really, really long days. So, I was curious to see how he was doing. He’s only been at his job for four months, but already, he said that he’s started to feel “aggressive.” Puzzled, I asked him why.
»This is not an easy movie to see. In fact, I didn’t want to see it at all and fought with myself because I knew just from the description it would be an impossibly cruel movie about the bodies Stalin left behind.
»There’s something about Yemen that catches the eye and the mind. Yemen is one of the few countries left that’s not completely tamed, taken over by the McDonalds and Carrefours of the world. Sana’a, pictured here, is ancient and one of UNESCO’s heritage sites. At the same time, Yemen is more dangerous than ever, with a border conflict with Saudi Arabia, almost nonexistent human rights, and a serious qat problem.
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