Phlegm Advice
on Apr 23, 2009Remember a month ago, when I was sick, I told you about how my friend said to spit out the phlegm that I coughed up. At the time, I thought it was a strange and seriously disgusting piece of advice, but I have been proved wrong. At the top of an ar...

Exam Season
on Apr 20, 2009I bought 11 pairs of shoes today. It really wasn't good for my credit card, and it really wasn't good for my tiny closet, but it had to be done. My girlfriends spend the weeks immediately before exams desperately vacuuming every last speck of dust...

Amazon Deals
on Apr 20, 2009Good marketing works wonders on me. Every online store must love people like me! Even as I write this, I've flipped over to Amazon.com twice to look at the "Today's Deal's" page, even though a new deal isn't due to appear for another hour. Luckily, t...

Crêpes
on Apr 20, 2009Have you ever encountered any problems with the word "crêpes?" I ask because the word seems to be a total mystery in America. A couple of years ago I was walking past a crêpe shop in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, when a guy behind me asked his fri...

Diet-coke Cake
on Apr 13, 2009Diet-coke cake. 178 calories per serving, recipe makes 12 servings. Ingredients: 1 can of diet coke, 1 box of cake mix, preferably chocolate. Instructions: Turn oven to 375F. Grease a baking pan. Mix the can of diet coke with the box of cake mix in a...

Karaoke all night long!
on Apr 13, 2009I hate karaoke - I always have. But they just smiled when I told them, and so we went to karaoke. It wasn't hard to find a place - they seemed just littered throughout K-town, and so they took me to this place called Grand Karaoke. It was a poor choi...

Word of the Day: Squash
on Apr 13, 2009Sometimes I feel like I'm teaching English in a foreign country. Today's word is "squash" - the drink, not the verb, sport, or vegetable. I pick up a bottle of the drink in my favorite New York supermarket (they also sell imported English tea). Th...

Tea Glorious Tea
on Apr 10, 2009So, I'm rather obsessed with tea. Not just any tea, though. It has to be proper English tea, and it has be with milk. This means that every few months, I trek a mile to a supermarket where they sell tea imported from England. People ask me what it is...

Pee
on Apr 5, 2009On the bus trip back from Philadelphia, I overheard the following conversation between two guys sitting behind me before I fell asleep. First guy: "Did you hear about Alex?"Second guy: "About what?"First guy: "He peed on the bed when we woke him up l...

Ode to Iphone
on Apr 5, 2009Black or white, sixteen gigabytes or eight,The iphone was destined to be my fate.Nimble fingers tapping on a screen,It's an ipod, phone, and apps-downloading machine.Read books on the go, time yourself as you run,Read the news when you're bored, or p...