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pasta

I am currently at my friend Carlos“apartment with a group of friends. Carlos, a Mexican exchange student doing the same program that I am doing (but in English), lives on the 5th floor of a very old building near the cathedral here in Clermont-Ferrand, and in order to...

beer great

this afternoon I was overjoyed to find out that the local HEB (Texan grocery store chain) stocks three of my favorite beers – Duvel, Maudite and La Fin Du Monde. I picked up a pint of the latter to have with dinner. So good!

tea and coincidences

funny coincidence yesterday – I went to the DMV (my favorite place, and yours too!) to get my driver’s license renewed. It turns out that the lady behind the counter shared the same birthday as me – not just the month and day, but the year as well....

always an adventure

since returning to school I’ve been pretty low on cash. How low? well – the other day I didn’t have any money for lunch – but there was some free food left out on a table in the IMBA office area from a career information session that took place...
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baby Callum turned five months old yesterday. I’ve been playing a bit with Blosxom. It is a very cool weblogging program that stores entries as text files (so that you can use a text editor to make an entry) and uses directory trees to indicate heirarchy. I have...

homemade pizza

when I lived in Santa Clara, California there was a pizza joint down the street (within walking distance) called Pizz’a Chicago that I used to frequent quite often. They had a pizza (the Untouchables) that featured barbequed chunks of chicken, barbeque sauce and...