This post is almost two months old and has been sitting in my drafts, completed with the exception of a picture I didn’t have on hand when I wrote it. I forgot about it, it became dated, and it has sat in my drafts feeling sad and lonely. I made some minor changes to fix […]

I keep changing my tagline because I still don’t know what I’m doing with this blog and because I like to pretend that anyone other than me might actually care. Also on the list of bloggy-things-that-only-I-care-about, I redesigned the page now that I have this supremely amazing-but-not-really new tagline that I will change nineteen times […]

I got my visa! You may now perform the elaborate choreography that you have worked out for the occasion. Leave video proof in the comments. (sidebar: can you? I’ve been singing endless praises of Disqus, but I think that exceeds its capabilities. #wompwomp) The picture I didn’t get to see is now in my passport […]

This weekend I went back up to Chicago to visit the family and go back to the French Consulate for Please Give Me A Visa: round 2. As one would expect, because this is me, it was a bit of a debacle. Before we even left for Chicago I was rushed out the door, still […]