My Dog is Chelsea

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRG! You know when you interview for a job you really, really want, and the interview seems to go fairly well and you start imagining yourself commuting to the new job every morning and wondering whether the office coffee will be decent and picturing what your desk will look like? You know how disappointing it [...]

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Today my student fed me a dish called “Ukraine Food.” Basically, it was a bunch of cut-up spaghetti topped with two large meatball-type-things, although they in no way resembled the pork/beef hunks that my Italian grandmother can craft—these were lighter, softer and mushier. Sofiya told me that they were made of turkey, beef and sour [...]

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A weekend recap: 1) Friday night was my friend Alex’s housewarming/Friday-the-Thirteenth costume party. I went dressed as my car, a Geo Tracker. The idea for my getup arose from our frisbee team’s original Halloween tournament costume theme—we were all going to dress up as some sort of sidekick. I figured I’d go as a Suzuki [...]

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I realized today that I am no longer a vegetarian. Now, I am a “vegetarian except on Wednesday mornings.” This morning, my student fed me homemade “chicken” sausage. It went like this: Sofiya: I made sausage, you eat? I made it myself. It has chicken only. Me: [I am resigned to the fact that there [...]

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Let’s talk about etiquette, shall we? Yes, we shall, because it recently became a hot-button issue over here at my apartment complex and I’d like to take a quick poll of readers’ opinions on the subject. The scenario: My new roommate (who is vegan, by the way, so he definitely doesn’t eat alligators or armadillos) [...]

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