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

July 26th, outsourced

Sorry if anyone's Friday morning internet browsing binge habit has been disrupted by my change in time zone. I realize this is going up much later than when I posted it from the UAE!

Beards made out of bees. You read that correctly. [HT Suzanne]

Here's a lovely video about Dubai (in support of their World Expo 2020 bid) that highlights some truly awesome things about the UAE. [HT Sana]

In case you ever need a handy reference guide: every meal consumed in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Farmer Boy. Food heaven.

If you find a way to get around the paywall and read this, please do: fifteen years after autism panic, a plague of measles erupts.

Forensic linguistics, doing its job, outing JK Rowling as the author of a new mystery novel.

First they award the 2022 World Cup to Qatar...then they seriously consider holding it in winter. And the football world goes CRAZY.

2013: the year that PG-13 broke. (Brief language warning in the context of discussing movie rating standards.) [HT Eric D. Snider]

In honor of my brother Steven, who just got a job at a Chipotle in NYC and is thus entitled to one free meal a day: there are 655,360 different burrito combinations possible at Chipotle.

LIBRARIES. [HT Suzanne]

In Royal Baby odds and ends: Project Normal Child, a brief history of royal childhoods, and the significance of Kate's new-mommy tummy. I have to say, as trivial as it may seem, I loved that last one. I am sorry that she couldn't leave the hospital in privacy, in sweats, but the fact that she wasn't afraid to show the world that hey, immediately after you have a baby, guess what? You still totally look pregnant. Bravo, Kate.

A day in the life of the target-market female. Hilarious. [HT Liz]

American road trip

Reverse culture shock, take 2