Morjes!

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

December 18th, outsourced

A linguist explains what old-timey British accents sounded like. This is excellent fodder for all those random Christmas party conversations you are likely to encounter this week.

How a blonde American kid became a superstar in Saudi Arabia.

This video about standing-in-line behavior is SO ME. Especially in the Middle East (to the extent that there are lines there). God bless Finland for their queue ticket numbers!

This story about a journalist playing Cupid warmed my heart. Sometimes real life is just like the movies.

I'm sure you've seen this: across the USA for $213 by train. But there is also this rebuttal, which made me laugh. [HT Anna]

My brother just sent me this account of a strange soccer match in which it was to both teams' interests to score an own goal. I find this to be completely charming. [HT Blair]

My best books of 2015 (and other distinctions)

Darkness