SHIT sorry I missed this :(

128 days after that I am applauding your decision!!

He says add him on fb

Logged in for the first time in like a year to circle dot this... I should come back

Bohemian Rhapsody and Piano Man are the worst choices. people don't realize piano man is like 50 billion verses long and they don't know them.

you're telling me! 10 months is both a long and short time, especially in the policymaking world.

i'm really looking forward to the trip (minus the heat and I already know Croatia is gonna be a clusterfuck of tourists lol). my mom and i were commenting on how nice it is to travel w/ each other now as adults. and my dad is driving so that'll be fun too. he was telling me that on his Hippie Trail Adventure, he tried to go to Albania but couldn't. and i told him that i learned that nobody could get in or out under Enver Hoxha's Communist rule, so it'll be neat to show him all the neat Communist history stuff that was happening when he couldn't get in.

and by neat Communist history I mean a shit load of bunkers (173,000+)

last full week in the vo. family is coming next week and we're going to drive the Adriatic coast for 10 days and i go back to the US shortly after!

i'll be driving from the East Bay to DC for the latter half of August and I know Topher planned a pit stop in Ann Arbor, so Ann Arbor folx git at me.

love saving those sollars

:)

can you hear me crying from deep within the balkans? lmao

Super into this! I'm very pro being barefoot and I admire you for toughening your feet up that much... among other things like having beaten a world record or something

one of my best friends when i was a kid is half slovenian and half croatian and introduced me to potica so i hunted it down while there. their layer cake too is top notch.

it's my 2nd trip. really pretty place, tasty food.

sorry that was kinda unclear -- i found it on craigslist at DC and had Topher pick it up. and it was free.

all the cool kids use subheadings

Kosovo

Just when I got comfy with the idea of leaving and only looking back fondly, I met and clicked with an academic who wants me to write an article on the policymaking environment for an upcoming book. I said something about having already bought a ticket home being my reasoning for solidly leaving, and he said something about it being simple to find the funds to keep me here... not sure if he meant in terms of just a plane ticket or something to live on. Not so sure about sticking around, but I'm gonna write the article and it can definitely be done remotely. I'd really like to go home haha

Things Done

My 2 research interns (yeah weird to think about having interns... I'm not so far removed from being an intern myself lol) presented some killer work that I assisted them with and they'll be graduating next week pending my evaluations.

Acquired while overseas a beautiful Ethan Allen set of chests of drawers and tables and stuff... FO FREE.

Upcoming

Ditching work to go wine tasting in the South tomorrow. Going to Ljubljana again but this time as a work thing. Going to Berlin for 5 days shortly after that.

then it'll be July which means the end is nigh!

sure i'll bite. it's part of a network of traits that contribute to a social hierarchy.

pandas

who do you suggest makes up the so called spook state?

are you trying to argue that trans people try to change their places in society by transitioning? because that's patently false.

they are soft and snuggly. checkmate atheists.

cat should not be outdoors/free roaming. it's bad for all parties involved: the cats, the local wildlife, and the community who has to deal with untamed feral colonies.

I've actually been trying to go to Gdansk. I went to Warsaw a long time ago and only did Sad Jewish Things, so I'd like to avoid that this time haha.

I'm traveling with my parents and then I leave in early August so no I'm tryna travel in June and July while Europe is still easily accessible.