February 2009
18 posts
Une pause
Dear Internet friends (and real-life friends, and especially my mum): in conjunction with the launch of my schmancy new website (thanks to Ryan for that, by the way) I’m shutting this blog down for a while. Sad!
But not too sad - follow me over to www.himglishandfemalese.com. And don’t write off this space entirely…I am sure that I will, at some point, be back.
xxx Jean
Himglish and Femalese →
My book isn’t published until 21st May, but today we are launching my new dedicated blog, www.himglishandfemalese.com! I’m quite excited.
“Democrats also came across what they are calling the “Brunomobile,” a $50,000...”
– Uncovering the Perks of Albany’s Fallen G.O.P. - NYTimes.com
This is a little amusing, but only because I don’t live there anymore.
How is it that some people manage to look so fresh...
Even coming out of premium economy (upgrade! woohoo!) I looked so dishevelled as I clambered through the jetway this morning that I was concerned the immigration people wouldn’t let me back in to the country. This is largely due to the fact that I cannot sleep on flights, for my poor little flying-phobic brain, though largely beaten in to submission, still believes that if I fall asleep,...
That wasn't very nice
As our plane floated in for a landing next to the Las Vegas strip, I felt at peace - sad to have left my brother and sister-in-law behind in California but happy to have had such a nice visit, and looking forward to getting back to the comforts (and familiar discomforts) of London.
Except then we smacked the runway with a bang and immediately took off again. Terrifying! In another triumph for my...
Hadley Freeman: Yes, it is possible to look good... →
Hadley Freeman is by far the best fashion writer there is. But I do think she slightly misses the most important point to be made here in her course of defending our right to dress warmly: while bundled-up women are perhaps not as obviously sexy as their stripped-down summer selves, there’s a lot to be said for the titllating removal of clothing when the object of your affection goes indoors...
A telephone conversation
Jean: Sorry to go, but I have to catch my helicopter now.
Ross: You just called me so that you could say that, didn't you?
Jean: No, I really didn't! But I am surprised that it didn't occur to me earlier.
London Word Festival - Shakespeare in Shoreditch →
Well, doesn’t this sound fun?
“This year, my Valentine is going to be a pierogie. Yours can be a beet.”
– Lauren saves V-Day by booking us in to our favourite Polish restaurant.
No one smiles when they sit and play slot...
It’s a funny form of leisure activity.
More when I parse all of my thoughts on this city.
Las Vegas
…is a very strange place. Stranger still, perhaps, is being here as part of a group of Brits, rather than as an American. I vacillate between wanting to laugh at how provincial and tacky it is - and oh, how it is - and feeling very defensive in a patriotic sort of way about the right of all Americans to eat unfathomably enormous amounts of food and wear cowboy hats without irony or having to...