I’ve been a complete failure at posting about the travelling I’ve been fortunate enough to do this year, mostly due to laziness because I’m good that way. I only managed to post about the soccer-related portion of our trip to Boston, New York City, and Baltimore in July, but I also spent a long weekend in San Francisco in August after I got to go to San Diego for work, [...]
Since I am not sentimentally attached to page turning, I bought an e-reader (Kobo Vox) in November in hopes that it would prompt me to read more. It has, although I don’t get through things terribly quickly on account of mostly reading on the subway to and from work. Here’s some stuff that I’ve recently read / am currently reading:
This week on poorly planned ticket sales: they announced that Liverpool would take on Spurs in Baltimore as part of their North American tour and naturally by the time I got home from work and heard about it, the LFC supporters section ticket allotment had already sold out in the pre-sale. How do you have a pre-sale for a game that just got announced today? Naturally, I panicked. Boston is [...]
* Which is to say the not-for-profit arts organization I work for, which is also to say that what people look for in a resume varies from person to person even within a single organization let alone across all not-for-profits so really, this may be of no use to you. Every year around this time I begin my annual wade through piles of resumes. For every job I post, I [...]
Recipe sharing time! Cooking is generally not really my thing and so on the rare occasion I find a recipe I actually like, I feel compelled to share it. I’ve been attempting a lot of Indian or otherwise curry-based dishes in the last few months because it forces me to eat lots of veggies and because rice is so easy to make. Anyway. Onward to the Easy, Tasty Chickpea Curry [...]
A former coworker dropped by work today having returned recently from a two month trip to Europe. She mentioned that she had not at all enjoyed Paris and I expressed surprise as I remember really liking it as I apparently didn’t have any negative experiences the way she had. We talked more about her trip and then as if to refute my own previously stated enjoyment of the city, I [...]
Greatest decision I’ve made in the last two months? Deciding to go to Liverpool for a long weekend. We left Thursday, got back yesterday, and had a glorious two-and-a-half days in the city.
I am attending a barbecue on Saturday to which I have been asked to bring an appetizer. It will take all my strength not to make devilled eggs, the 1970s class act appetizer extraordinaire that I love so much and that quite possibly no one else on the planet does. I even have an entire tray designed for the serving of devilled eggs. My love for paprika seasoning, let me [...]
And can I just say that it is DELICIOUS? Is there a beverage equivalent for the joy of eating manifested on the internet by “om nom nom”? Because that term would be applicable in this instance. My sister Amelia prompted this, as she’s been making her own iced tea this summer. Obviously making your own iced tea is not rocket science but I found some instruction here and here to [...]
Today is my birthday and as such I set my alarm for 3:00am so that I could get up early and gift myself with a pair of tickets to the Liverpool vs Wolves match on September 23. I promptly called my sister at around 4:00am to tell her that I secured said tickets and now we are on our way towards planning a long weekend in Liverpool revolving around this [...]