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I give you, my husband.
The description of his latest paper gives me all kinds of helpful phrases to use when people ask me what Bryan does. Why, he “aggressively optimizes tetrahedra.” He “describes a schedule for applying and composing [three] operations that rarely gets stuck in a bad optimum.” Also, he “improves meshes so […]

OF COURSE I’ve read the latest and last Harry Potter book. In fact, I broke down and read one of the leaked copies on my computer the day before it was released. And I’m only a little ashamed of that.
I have all sorts of opinions that I won’t write here to avoid spoilers. Although at […]

I’m having a completely unanticipated problem with being in Germany: it’s KILLING me to miss the summer produce in the Bay. It doesn’t come as a huge surprise, but at some unidentifiable point in our four California years, Bryan and I slid into the territory of true food snobbery. This doesn’t mean we’re too good […]

As is often the case abroad, my two English-language options on television are CNN and the BBC.* While I was in Thailand, the primary thing I noticed was that the anchors on the BBC appeared to be real people, while the CNN anchors were about 20% skinnier, blonder, and looked like they’d tripped and fallen […]

A couple of months ago, Bryan and I finally figured out how to roast a chicken. Not that we hadn’t roasted chickens before; we’d been doing it with some degree of success for years. But we’d forever be standing with the thermometer, waiting for the thighs to catch up to the breast. Whatever we […]

Apparently, the wedding is far enough behind us now that we’re starting to forget we got married. We’ve caught ourselves referring to each other as “boyfriend” and “girlfriend” more than once in the past week.

I got a lot of questions before we left for Germany about what exactly I would spend my time doing, which I answered with a list of projects and growth experiences—some of which I’ve actually gotten around to. But lest you think from our sporadic blog posts that it’s been all glamorous touring and eating […]

I am uploading this blog post from our very own apartment. Yes, on the four-week anniversary of our arrival, after weeks of navigating contracts and packages and phone calls and service-people—all in German—we have lift-off. It’s quite a feat, for which Bryan gets 100% of the credit. (I didn’t tell him, but I quietly gave […]

No reason behind the title; it was just more fun than the runner-up: “things we’ve been doing.” (It’s not true, either—I have 0 problems.)
So here are…things we’ve been doing.
Flea Markets

The weekends find about half a dozen substantial flea markets throughout the city, ranging from locals spreading out the contents of their closets to what seem […]