Morjes!

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

June 3rd, outsourced

Misleading book covers. I just...what is even going on with these? [HT Suzanne]

Some North Korea defectors have skeptics! Very interesting.

I love the idea of Russia being a RBF nation: why do some countries look down on smiling?

A team of Emiratis recently climbed Everest - the men to the summit and the women to base camp!

A scientific analysis of back pocket placement on jeans (includes a lot of photos of people's butts in jeans, FYI).

I love this fake Eurovision song to win them all - it really is the perfect Eurovision song! It gets a little sexy so maybe don't show it to your kids but it seems to have been meant in good fun.

How to get your body caftan-ready for summer.

I am hooked on this #Ham4Ham rendition of Schuyler Sisters with the characters swapped. How good of a Burr is Angelica? SO GOOD.

I loved hearing Winnie Cooper (Danica McKellar) talk about finding her true career as a mathematician!

I don't watch Outlander, but dear goodness, is this dress incredibly gorgeous. And the backstory on how the costume designer decided to make it was interesting!

Immigrant enclave

Two countries