Never, ever do business with AT&T if you require timely service or straight answers from the people you talk to. They’re very good at offering half-assed apologies and explaining that the person you were just talking to didn’t know what he or she was talking about, but I find that to be less useful than [...]

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Stocked up on bottled water and canned food, because every storm is the one that’s going to wipe out the city now, even if the city’s two hundred miles inland. Nobody ever regretted spending twenty bucks on hurricane preparation, I figure, at least not compared to how they may have regretted not doing the [...]

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My wife just graduated from Goldsmiths College with an MA in applied drama, which is, essentially, the use of theatre in social work and education. I have a few Craigslist search terms set up to find interesting work opportunities for her- basically “theatre”, “theater”, and “drama”. The search key for “drama” almost entirely yields results [...]

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A few more days of radio-silence while house-hunting in Austin, and then this thing’ll be up and running again. Anyone want to write a guest post?

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Things’ll be a little slow around here for the next week or two, probably, as moving back to America becomes priority number one. Just to give you a head’s up.
Also, one from the “moving is complicated” file: When we moved here, we bought a big 26″ widescreen CRT television off of Gumtree, the UK equivalent [...]

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For reasons that are way too boring to get into, I haven’t got a UK bank account, and UK banks are very different from American banks. Like, you know how, if you have good credit, you can usually go into an American bank with some money and open a checking account, which’ll be active [...]

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In eight days, I’ll be aboard an airplane to Chicago, and shortly after that, the whole experience of living as an American overseas comes to an end for my wife and I as we sign a lease on a place in Austin and see how home looks with fresh eyes.
Something that comes up from [...]

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Last night, Kat spent half an hour while I was getting ready for bed watching her new favorite show, fucked up people on hornsey road. It plays every weekend night, from about ten o’clock until two or three in the morning, on the big picture window in our bedroom. Last night was the episode in [...]

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