Coffee Café Vagrancy

1 May 2006

I popped into Starbucks for a cuppa this morning and turned into a vagrant loitering for hours. The scary thing is that I was not alone.

Though I normally frequent coffee cafés that sell tea and milk that have been harvested from shaded fields on cooperative farms (rather than fields clear-cut from shrinking jungles for covetous corporate agriculture and grazing), Starbucks ensnared me.  And that’s because they’re everywhere now!
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Off to Switzerland

25 April 2006

Nikov is threatening to take me on a sports date. I mean he waved two tickets at me with great zeal the other day. Arghhh!

I think I will have a bout of SAD, a sudden relapse of Seasonal Affective Disorder, such that I will have to take to my bed the night of the game. Whatever game it is. I mean what do they play this time of year? Huh?
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I’m Back, Plus Some

16 January 2006

I’m back from the home country and carrying excess luggage in the amount of at least eight pounds.

That’s approximately a pound per thigh; two around the tum, another two stuck to my bum, one per boob, and my underarms are wobblier than when I left.
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Vege Pie versus Plum Pud

3 December 2005

Frank and Beaty, the parental unit, are thrilled! I’ve just organized my annual trip to the home country for a summer chrissie with the family.

A certain Thursday in late November roles around in the northern hemisphere, and I take one bite of pumpkin pie and something odd happens.
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It’s a Boy

24 October 2005

For those bloggers who do not know, Australia’s very own, Mary Donaldson, future Queen of Denmark, has had a baby boy.  That’s right, the baby prince is half Danish and half Australian.

Mary met Crown Prince Frederik and some of his mates out boozing one night at a pub in Sydney during the 2000 summer Olympics. Suddenly they had a thing going and voila, fast-forward five years: Mary and Fred are married, and now Mary is a royal mum.
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