Morjes!

Welcome to my blog. I write about fitting in, sticking out, and missing the motherland as a serial foreigner.

February 3rd, outsourced

Three book-related links: first, a cute video showing what books in a bookstore do after closing time. [HT Ashi]

Second, this amazing illustrated relationship algorithm for books (or whatever) on Amazon. [HT Matt]

And third, some children's books online for those of us without a kids' library nearby. [HT Nancy]

This happened to me only once during a piano performance, thank goodness.

Here's what the most annoying tweet imaginable would look like. Sounds about right.

I guess I should be glad that my kids have played on all kinds of dangerous playgrounds, with crooked, rusted metal slides and swings with jagged rocks underneath...?

I've never heard it put quite like this, but I think she's right: Mormons don't really believe in hell. (I have Ms. Brooks' The Book of Mormon Girl sitting on my Kindle, waiting to be read, by the way.)

I remember when we lived in Moscow we saw an ad with George Clooney in it and I was kind of surprised. Turns out that kind of thing is totally normal overseas.

The GFY girls' figure skating costume critiques have got to be just as fun as the figure skating itself. Keep a clear eye for a reference to The Cutting Edge.

Blogorrhea re: Kuwait

In Kuwait