ah, well...
what an awesome time to be in Europe and on a graduate fellowship...
I really don't have much to add.
posted by Wabes @ 9/20/2007 09:29:00 AM
Thursday, September 20, 2007
I really don't have much to add.
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seriously. i was in london last week (for work), and all my purchases were at heathrow's duty-free. the teachers i spoke to, however, were quite excited about visiting new york in november, since broadway shows were "so cheap."
i'm with you on heathrow, by the way. those are some loooong corridors they've got there.
glad to hear everything's going well in berlin!
oh, dear. is this your way of saying you want me to mail you a whole bunch of fruit roll-ups? i can do that, wabes, never you fear.
fruit roll-ups are always good, really, but this is more a matter of sticker shock...though it won't stop me (probably) from moving into a slightly more expensive but better located apartment...
i don't want the dollar to be dominant, really, and i'm glad the european economy is good, but gosh, anything close to parity has never sounded so good.
but here's a query: at what other points in history has it been equally good to be british? tell me, anglophiles...
It has always been good to be British, frankly. Magninimous in triumph, stoic in defeat. And now... quick to stuff face with twice as many cupcakes from Magnolia as the Ohio tourists, without going any deeper into the financial hole.
Oh wait, your question. It was only worth being British until 1914. Then Robbie Williams happened, or something or other.
i totally have a soft soft for our Robbie, honestly. he's just crazy enough, and i will admit to liking at least 1 Take That song. he was on this odd stephen fry documentary about bipolar disorder, too, and he was so candid. but does he mean a downfall of british culture...or a strong pound?
hey, i'm going to do this and call you out...owen, is that you?! how come you don't identify yourself. i can't see you - i'm in BERLIN, for god's sake!
(if you aren't responsible for the robbie comment, i apologize, and am embarrassed, and i've learned my lesson not to call people out when they want to be anonymous.)
and p.s., aren't you welsh? does a nation with the leek as it's symbol still get to be british?
you SO got the identity of "anonymous" wrong... ha. It was your other Anglophile friend. The one who is Irish-American, not Welsh.
after some thought, i kinda figured that out...
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