Bryan Voltaggio from Top Chef season 6. He is such a cutie.

Weather.com: -13 degrees C and snow. Feels like -19 degrees C.

Even you Clevelanders can't tell me that -19 is common.

Today we're having a wintry rain/snow mix. In other words, I'm really questioning my decision to leave CA. On the plus side, I'm all for excuses to shop. Here are some things I actually need:

1. Some awesome house shoes since the ones I got at Elephant Pharmacy died last March. I cannot find a similar pair anywhere.

2. One or two tops along these lines

3. Practical snow boots. I just ordered some Uggs from Zappos.com

4. More warm socks

5. Flannel pajama pants + top



Then there are the things I just really really want:

1. Expensive boots that are impractical for snow but look like the epitome of winter coziness

2. Silk is hardly practical for the lab, but I wish it was for always

3. Because I have some weird notions that I'll need a cardigan for the Opera

Dear New York Times Readers,
Just because something works in Switzerland does not mean it will work in the United States. I've seen the poor Swiss people. They are nothing like the poor Americans. Switzerland is a small country. The United States is not. Do you know how much a simple Nutella crepe costs in Switzerland? Do you know how much the average boat floating on Lake Geneva costs? I love Switzerland but their lack of public option does not convince me we should do the same.

P.S. Forgive the rawness of the argument. It am tired, I have no food, and I just discovered that Saturday is a national holiday and I can't buy anything all weekend. It's all I can do to still care about the issues back home.

I just had the nicest weekend I've had in a long time. I want to tell everyone all about it, but my thoughts are a jumbled mix of English, German, and French, and Malhereusement, ich glaube que das ist pas possible.

"'It's a Wonderful Afterlife' is an upcoming Indian/British/American comedy film directed by Gurinder Chadha. The screenplay is by Chadha and Paul Mayeda Berges and it centered on an Indian mother who takes her obsession with marriage into the world of serial murder."

Thank you, Wikipedia!

My New Room

You can also check out the apartment under the set titled "WG".

And I am now homesick.

I have a few viruses on my computer. One is jebojope.dll and another is also a dll only both are hidden so I don't know how to delete them. The university and my lab only provide Symantec which clearly sucks, although I have all the latest Windows updates and have done a complete Symantec scan. I also periodically get a warning that internet explorer has stopped working which is odd, considering I only use Mozilla. My computer should be completely backed up. Anyway, what to do? I really need to fix this problem in the next 24 hours.