Monthly Archives: November 2008

How to have the best day ever

By serene | Published: November 22, 2008

Step 1: Have a long phone call with a loved one. Step 2: Take a sunny, snowy photowalk. Step 3: Pick up a care package from home (thanks Ludie and family!). Step 4: Ooh and Ahh over contents of care package. Particularly swoon if the contents are hot, spicy, and/or green chile. Step 5: Cook [...]

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Breaking News

By serene | Published: November 21, 2008

SERENE SURVIVES FIRST DANISH SNOWSTORM She will now retire to her bed to cuddle with pillows (audience: BOO) and watch some downloaded 30 Rock (audience: YAY). And this concludes your news update.

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Sverige

By serene | Published: November 13, 2008

I’m off to spend the weekend in Göteborg, Sweden. To celebrate the great country to the north and what some (*ahem*Timm*ahem*) may call my first foray into REAL SCANDINAVIA AND NOT THE FAUX-EUROPEAN VERSION, I present to you First Aid Kit, a super cute Swedish band (on The Knife’s Rabid Records label for the music [...]

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MEMEMEMEMEMEME

By serene | Published: November 12, 2008

I am desperate for a break from Norman Fairclough and Critical Discourse Analysis. Plus, two of my favorite bloggers did it, and this bandwagon is winking mighty flirtatiously with me. 1. My uncle once: took me out dancing with his boyfriend, their friends, my friends, and my Grandfather. 2. Never in my life: have I [...]

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5:30 am, November 5th

By serene | Published: November 6, 2008

I’ll always remember where I was at 5:30 am on the morning of November 5th. I was sitting on a slightly damp, very stinky couch that is like every other couch found in college dorms across the world. And on this couch, surrounded by other American study abroad students at this University located in the [...]

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