Work-isms: Stating the Obvious

I shouldn’t have come in to the office today. I probably have a fever and couldn’t sleep all night because of a terrible cough that keeps sneaking up on me. So here I am doing my work, when I start having one particularly bad episode of coughing and gasping for breath and I’m feeling super…

This Week- Feb 16

Will It Ever Stop? This was of the coldest weeks we’ve recently experienced in Lebanon. Rain, thunderstorms, even a bit of “snow” landed along the coastal cities. I live in Beirut and I’ve been huddled up, hiding under layers at any moment when I wasn’t at work. I can only imagine what people who live…

In Bruges: Not the Movie

There are two things I learned from our trip to Bruges, Belgium back in April: 1. The film In Bruges barely has anything to do with the town, and therefore should not be considered as good research material for your trip. In fact, the interiors are completely different than how the movie showed them to be….

Apologies and Updates from the Lowlands

As far as bloggers go, I am the example for the worst kind: the one that gets super excited about something and consistently talks about it and then the moment something better comes along, I just abandon the blog and requests from friends here and back home and focus on that. In my case, it’s the…