Europe

Ann’s mom Sabine and her boyfriend Rik are visiting for the first time! We are very glad to host them, but we have to keep Sabine out of the kitchen because she has a nasty habit of breaking all our stuff. 😉

My second whirlwind trip home. Only this time I didn’t get to spend as much time in Princeton as last time. And I didn’t get to eat ANY Indian food! I came into Newark on Monday, arriving one day after the snow, just like last time. We haven’t hardly seen Read more…

This weekend Ann and I decided to go on a spontaneous trip to Antwerp to go see the women’s finals of the Diamond Games featuring Venus Williams and some French chick I had never heard of (Amelie Mauresmo). We arrived Saturday night, tired and hungry, and walked to the hotel, Read more…

It wasn’t easy at first. Ken and I got to the Holland Casino at about 8:15. We rushed through the bag check and bounded up the stairs to get on the list for a Hold ‘Em table (correction: THE Hold ‘Em table) only to find the single 10-20 table in Read more…

So I’m trying to occupy the time until Superbowl XXXIX. Four hours to go. It will be 12:30am here when I start watching, but I started conditioning myself to watch the whole thing by staying up last night until 3am watching 2001: A Space Odyssey. As much as I appreciate Read more…

The popcorn in the movie theaters here is coated with sugar instead of salt and butter. I have to say, I really like it. It’s a really light coating, just enough to give you the idea and to make you want more. Come to think of it, they may mix Read more…

I am so goddamned happy I don’t have to take New Jersey transit any more. I will never do it again in my life. Ever. After a hectic entry into New York, brief stop by the office, then the hotel to check in and drop off my bag, I took Read more…

Talk about surreal. I’m riding my bike home from the train station in Dordrecht at 5:30pm on a Sunday night. As it is a Sunday, all the residents of Dordrecht are required by martial law to shut themselves in their homes and remove all traces of life from the town. Read more…

The blog posts have gotten a little infrequent since I started my MBA, and I’d like to take this chance to explain why: From the 10th to the 15th of January I was basically in school or going to school from 7:00am until 6:00pm. The next week I was catching Read more…

I just finished my MBA “Start Week”. I’m pretty sure the model for start week is Boot Camp. Just a quick recap: a little over a year ago I decided that an MBA would not only be a useful career tool, but would actually teach me a lot of things Read more…