June 28. Day 363.
I can’t believe it’s almost over!! I wrote Day 363 as if it were day 63. Unreal.
In a recent comment, IGC asked if I have any plans this week.
Nothing you can see immediately, but stuff is happening behind the scenes.
Starting July 1, I’m going to publish an analysis of all the data [...]
Dear Reader,
I am back in Milano and back in wifi-ville.
Here we go!!! Cut and paste time. For even with no internet, in the Tuscan countryside, your faithful asker was jotting down blog posts on her laptop, blackberry and scraps of paper, knowing this day would come…
The teaser/recap, since I can’t hold back: It rocked. Got [...]
June 5. Day 340.
When I was around 8, 9, 10, I was in airports all the time. My parents, who moved to San Diego a few years before I was born from a distant land, kept picking up and dropping off friends and family visiting from The Old Country, and various other countries.
These people came, [...]
June 1. Day 336.
This afternoon, after a stroll of my temporary neighborhood, I sat down, ordered a coffee, and began reading “A Prayer for Owen Meany.” I found it in a “give a book, take a book” coffee shop back home — a far cry above the typical Reader’s Digest classics those exchanges usually offer. [...]
May 11. Day 315.
Boy and girl meet. Boy or girl asks for number. Boy or girl calls. Maybe.
A variation of that theme happened today, when I asked for the phone number of two guys.
Now, I’m not lookin’ for trouble. Just some interesting conversation with some interesting local types.
Here’s how it all went down.
I went to [...]