Messin' with Texas

Since I am regularly surprised by lots of small little things here and there, I figured I would save up a few and put them into one entry for you. Sometimes it’s the little things that reall give you a flavor of life in a place, and I didn’t want anyone to miss out on [...]

Wow. So this has been the worst start of any year for me ever. Literally everything has been going wrong. Quickly, here is a list. I think that some greater power that exists only in Texas is out to get me. No but seriously, I must have done something really bad to have such bad [...]

This past weekend, because of Martin Luther King Jr day, and the fact that my job is only four days a week, I had a four day weekend. So I drove to Baton Rouge, Louisiana to visit a friend from school. It was a three hour drive through totally flat swamps and plains, but the [...]

I thought I would post a picture for all of you in the snowy north. I know I have talked about how nice the weather has been down here, but I thought I would take a screen shot from a weather website so you can have a visual, and really appreciate how nice the winter [...]

Last weekend, I randomly felt inspired to do something creative. I was looking through my boxes of saved things and I came up with the idea you see below. It’s a grid of post cards, 7×7. Every other one shows the writing that one of my friends wrote to me, and the others show the [...]

Well, it seems traffic is one of my most common themes here. That’s a little because I hate driving, and a little because of how frustrated I get with the other people on the road. I think I have a bit of New Yorker road rage. I am sure most people who have been in [...]

My job site shut down for a week in light of the current economic problems. So I headed back home to New York. A friend from my time in Switzerland was in town so we went sailing together. It was a very windy and very cold day (25F, -4C). We taped my camera (it’s an [...]

While visiting my grand parents in the Poconos Mountains in Eastern Pennsylvania, my uncle and my cousin and I went hiking through the old coal mines. The Poconos are one of the few places in the world where you can find anthracite, a type of coal characterized by a very high carbon content, which although [...]

I was going to go to NYC for New Year’s Eve, but my friends from home coerced me into having a party at my house. It was excellent. Here are some of the pictures.