August 30, 2006
Kinko's Sucks
These last two weeks have been even frantic-ier than usual, which accounts for me not posting even a single banality on this blog. For those of you wondering what kinds of adventures I’ve been having while I’ve been out of...Read this update
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August 16, 2006
Home Remedy
Drinking tap water does not cure bronchitis – I know that now. I concede this may have been overly optimistic on my part, but it was based on some irrefutable logic, which is this: the Native Americans probably had bronchitis,...Read this update
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August 10, 2006
Friends with Benefits
See that? That's what we're up to these days. The Little NGO That Could. My part in this is that I took those pictures; the rest was done by a rather astonishing group of friends who have been taking...Read this update
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August 03, 2006
New York: OurSpace
It is generally taken as fact that that anyone planning to take over the world will need to get a few key players on board first. Starbucks, for example. And probably Google, and Sean Hannity, and somebody that knows how...Read this update
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July 26, 2006
New York City: Father Figure
Tell me which of the following true statements seems least preposterous to you: a.) In a story on CNN about how sweet young actress Dakota Fanning will play a rape victim in her upcoming movie, there was a banner at...Read this update
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July 19, 2006
Jersey City: Landline
This is how a decision to indulge in a late-night Thomas’ English Muffin™ last Thursday led to me crouching outside in an alleyway, middle of the night, wearing nothing but swim trunks and rubber gloves, brandishing a large screwdriver and...Read this update
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July 12, 2006
New York: Scorpio
I was on the Yahoo! homepage on Tuesday – instead of clicking on my mailbox, as I usually do, on a whim I decided to click on the horoscopes. I have always been skeptical of horoscopes, and yet I am...Read this update
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July 05, 2006
Jersey City: Fear Factor
Last Saturday morning, I went down to the kitchen to have some cereal for breakfast. I keep the cereal in the pantry – I’ve always considered it to be pretty safe in there. Before I opened the pantry door on...Read this update
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June 28, 2006
Review: March of the Penguins
I rented “March of the Penguins” on DVD a few days ago. I’m pretty busy these days, so renting a documentary had the added benefit of making me feel like I wasn’t really wasting my time sitting in front of...Read this update
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June 21, 2006
New York: The Fever
By the end of the US-Czech Republic World Cup match, the one where we got crushed, I remembered why I hate sports. Ok, that’s not exactly accurate. When I think of somebody who “hates sports,” I think of my friend...Read this update
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June 14, 2006
Poughkeepsie, NY: Reaction
God works in mysterious ways, and none more mysterious than when He is deciding who is going to be allergic to what. “Cats!” He boomed the day I was born, His voice shaking the Heavens. “Conor shalt be allergic to...Read this update
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June 07, 2006
Charlottesville, VA: Decade
I went to my ten-year college reunion last weekend – University of Virginia, Class of ’96. I had to rent a car to get down to Charlottesville, so I chose Enterprise for their motto: “Enterprise: We’ll pick you up!” because...Read this update
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May 31, 2006
Jersey City: The Written Word
I get the New York Times delivered every morning here. I love that paper, even though my President once called one of its reporters a royal a**hole. Or maybe it was “major a**hole” – I can’t remember. Either way, the...Read this update
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May 25, 2006
Jersey City: Deprived
I can’t sleep these days, and I can’t figure out why. I lay in bed until three a.m. last night, wide awake. When you can’t sleep like this – and by “like this” I’m talking about days and days on...Read this update
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May 16, 2006
Jersey City: Green Thumbs
Mother’s Day was on Sunday, but you probably already knew that. I usually have no clue when Mother’s Day is, since I’m never in the country for it, and Hallmark doesn’t exactly blanket Belgium and Czech Republic with the news....Read this update
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May 09, 2006
Long Beach Island: The Beard and I
I have to believe that most of you out there have quite interesting and complex lives. You probably have a job, for one thing. That’s pretty complex. And friends. And an apartment, and a cat, and probably a car, and...Read this update
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May 02, 2006
Newark: Long Haul
I was seated in seat 64K on my Virgin flight from London to Newark. That’s the very last seat on the aircraft. That means had I been able to put my seat back into a full horizontal position, the back...Read this update
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December 30, 2005
New York: Window Seat
I began this entry while I was sitting in the airport in New York waiting for my flight back to London on Dec. 29th. I was contemplating the past year, and I wrote that the year 2005 reminded me of...Read this update
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December 24, 2005
New York City: Strike Force
My days at the beach house in NJ came to an end earlier this week. Sad, really – it was a rare time, those six weeks. How often does one get an open space of time to do nothing but...Read this update
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December 16, 2005
Atlanta: First Born
I’ll tell you something about babies: they’re not nearly as predictable as you’d think. You would think (which is to say, I would think) that with all the books that exist on childbirth and parenting, everything would be just about...Read this update
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December 11, 2005
Florida: Christmas Spirit
My brother Dave picked me up at the Daytona Beach airport and almost immediately began apologizing for the weather. He was wearing a t-shirt. We saw two of his friends on the way back to the house, and they too...Read this update
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December 05, 2005
New York: I, Teeth
These have been some good days out here at the beach house in New Jersey – writing, walking on the beach, looking out the window. Oh, and one time, the bird feeder was empty, and pissed off pigeon landed on...Read this update
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November 29, 2005
Long Beach Island: Fantasy Fishing
There is a video game about bass fishing, and that’s not even the weird part. The weird part is that you can search through dozens of reviews and postings on Google about this particular video game before you come across...Read this update
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November 23, 2005
New York: Chain Gang
I was hanging out with my friend Joselin on my first night back in New York (after my trip to Europe), and she asked me where I wanted to go eat now that I was back in America. Now I...Read this update
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November 08, 2005
Seattle: Rain Man
“Look at this guy,” Pete was saying, waving an index finger across my face and out the passenger side window as we drove along on a rainy Sunday morning in Seattle. I was visiting for the weekend, and my brother...Read this update
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November 04, 2005
New York: The Billfold
I’ve kept a journal for many years, and I still do. The RTW blog took over from that to a large extent, I was trying to keep track of just about every single day of the trip, and figured I...Read this update
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October 28, 2005
Swarthmore: The Girls' Dorm
When I first spoke to my little sister Kira about coming to visit her for a couple of days at Swarthmore College, where she is a sophomore, she asked me if I was ok just to crash in her room,...Read this update
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October 21, 2005
Pennsylvania: Road Trippin'
I miss road-tripping in America; it is a past-time that ranks up there with baseball and dangerous obesity. You go for long enough without driving a car, say for a year and a half, as I did, and even being...Read this update
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October 12, 2005
Penn State: The Doctors
When I was growing up, my family and I lived on the campus of a small liberal arts school called Vassar College in upstate New York. It was a great place for a kid to grow up; it had all...Read this update
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October 10, 2005
Virginia: Game Day
If you ever find yourself traveling for a long time and come home feeling like your wardrobe is frighteningly unoriginal, I would suggest taking a road trip to any large American university. You will be hard-pressed to spot a student...Read this update
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October 05, 2005
New York: Enlightenment
My ability to plan trips depends entirely on who I am going with. If I am with a girlfriend, for example, I will plan the hell out of it; I will log hours a day to find the most beautiful...Read this update
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October 03, 2005
The Saga Continues...
I believe that it can be interesting to read about exotic places you’ve never been to, especially when you can be fairly certain that the person telling you about these places will, at any given moment, freak out or throw...Read this update
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October 02, 2005
New York: Re-Entry
I had been assured by many people that I would experience radical culture shock upon reentering the United States. I was equally certain that I would not. On the whole “nobody is out to steal my crap” and “everybody speaks...Read this update
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