In theory this phone call with Mali colleagues is well timed, because it is giving me a chance to practice my French, which I have had limited chances to do since my return from West Africa.
In reality it is mostly giving me a headache and a mild sense of dread about how well I'm going to navigate my next trip to France...
pretty excited about seersucker being so popular lately
my extremely predictable meal as a consolation prize when my wife is traveling: steak, mac and cheese, and a stout
gosh i still love parks and rec so much
tfw sporcle adds a new badge you already qualified for so it just appears in your notifications even though you didn't play anything.
(I might've changed in a lot of ways, but becoming not a nerd isn't one of them I guess)
MIT Solve offers grants to people who propose innovative solutions to global development challenges. One of the ancillary categories is named the "Blockchain for Social Impact Prize" and I laughed so that I would not cry
A French cousin is getting married, and they've asked attendees to bring their favorite local cheese. I am somehow having trouble convincing my partner that as the Americans in the group it would be HILARIOUS if we brought velveeta
so i've now watched Legends of Tomorrow, Arrow, and Flash up to the Crisis on Earth X for each. And really watching all of them was just marking time until this season of Supergirl came out anyway so let's go already Kara
I mean OBVIOUSLY anything with Cate Blanchett is going to be fucking great, I was just pleasantly surprised the non-Hela scenes were also solid
finally caught thor ragnarok. I actively disliked the first thor movie, and the second was just standard superhero whatever, but this one was a real gem.
10 years ago today I left North America for the very first time, on a flight that would end up being the start of five years living and working in West Africa. Burkina, tu me manques dèh
College me would have been so surprised to learn what kind of person I grew to be, but that's not necessarily a bad thing
couldn't figure out how to entirely delete our wedding registry from two years ago on Zola, but turns out you CAN change your names to lord of the rings references
Birdsite link found on MetaFilter: memory vs reality of the animation in 80s TV cartoons https://twitter.com/skullmandible/status/997616996744216577/photo/1
claritin in the morning, flonase at night, and i still wake up sneezing
boutta haveta open my own microbrewery just to have an option that isn't piss lager or HOPSATION3000NOWWITHMOARHOPS
gotdang tree semen givin me nose diarrhea
really really don't like when a coworker emails me then also skype chats me on the same topic. pick one.
Have you ever blind typed something while referring back and forth to other things, only to find that at some point one of your hands drifted one key tp tje rogjt?
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