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Aller guten Dinge sind drei

The Germans are known for their efficiency. At least Hitler made the trains run on time, as the joke goes.

It’s true that, for the most part, the transportation system in Germany runs like clockwork. Unfortunately, when it fails, it fails BIG time! › Continue reading

Dead Jeans

I lost my favorite pair of jeans yesterday.

No, I didn’t misplace them, although you wouldn’t be foolish for thinking that, given my proclivity for stashing things under the bed, in boxes, etc.

My favorite pair of jeans was a pair I bought while my buddy Linda and I were shopping in Athens one afternoon. As PhD students, occasionally our need for stress relief would outweigh our need to be frugal, at which point we would head to the nearest clothing store and try on stuff, assuming that we could replace our feelings of inadequacy stemming from dissertation trouble with feelings of inadequacy stemming from poor body image. Anyway.

I happened to find these jeans while on one such shopping trip. They fit me perfectly, didn’t bind at all, didn’t need to be hemmed (a minor miracle in itself!), and were decorated with a subtle embroidery pattern down the left leg.  I loved these jeans! I wore them all the time. They were dressy enough to wear in the classroom, yet comfortable enough for shopping and such.

Unfortunately, even the best jeans won’t stand up to years of constant wear, and the fabric finally wore through in places. So alas, I had to retire these jeans to the trash bin. Sigh.

Paris in the
the Spring

So I realize it’s about two months late, but today’s topic is my March trip to Paris. No, I didn’t visit the Eiffel Tower — I promised Sheridan I’d wait until she would go with me.

I went to Paris in March to interview a director for my dissertation — remember that LONG paper thing I’m supposedly writing?  › Continue reading

Tech Tragedy!

We’ve had a major injury here at the Squirrel household. Sheridan’s laptop, typically stored on the keyboard tray of her desk, suffered a nasty fall when said keyboard tray slipped off its tracks and crashed to the floor, taking her laptop with it!

The good news is that it still works, mostly. The bad news is that the screen is cracked, so it’s now a very small desktop — LCD’s are fidgety, and while it’s mostly viewable at the moment I’m afraid if she moves it around too much she will lose the screen entirely. › Continue reading

Reconnected, after a fashion…

So after being without internet at the house since March 20 when we moved, Kevin, Sheridan, and I were anxiously awaiting our reconnection on April 30 as promised by Vodafone. › Continue reading