Updates Coming Sometime... + Happy Thanksgiving!

Loyal readers,

Just wanted to add a line to say that I hope to soon update this thing with a summary of my trip to Dublin, but it may be little while.

I am currently in the midst of a 2-week journey in the Southwestern United States on a photography assignment for work, visiting and photographing Franciscans working in Las Vegas, Albuquerque, El Paso, San Francisco, and St. Louis. Things are going pretty well so far and I've finally gotten over most of my jetlag. So I will have journal updates I need to do on these travels as well (including Friday's very surreal Vegas evening when Zach drove down from Salt Lake City and we walked around the strip for a few hours).

In the meantime, I wanted to wish you all a happy Thanksgiving. I am excited that I will get to share mine with friends in San Fran, though I hope the Geneva intern Thanksgiving celebration is nice as well.

God bless!

Good Humor

The Onion can always be counted on for a good slice of irreverent hilarity, but every once in awhile they produce something that is 100% right on the mark. Today I read Frito-Lay Angrily Introduces Line Of Healthy Snacks and started laughing out loud in the middle of the office.
Note: if profanity offends you, so will this article

In other comedy news, I hope you’re all enjoying Borat. I have to wait until next Wednesday until it opens here, but am at least happy it’s releasing the same month as home…

VOTE! (plus minor updates)

I thought I just post a friendly public service reminder that tomorrow, Tuesday, November 7th is mid-term election day. Please please please exercise your civic duty and go vote.

•The past couple weeks have been a bit more low-key and it’s been nice to spend some time in Geneva after a few weekends of whirlwind travel. Last weekend I went and saw Clint Eastwood’s Iwo Jima film Flags of Our Fathers. While it wasn’t quite on par with Saving Private Ryan, I thought it was well-done and presented an unflinching view of the grim realities of war and essentially un-earned hero-worship. It was a bit strange to be watching a movie about American history in a foreign country, but it was also kind of nice.

•Around last Wednesday the weather took an abrupt turn to the cold (after Geneva’s mildest October ever on record). We’ve since been subject to nightly lows below freezing which is kind of annoying (though nothing I haven’t experienced before). Hopefully it’ll at least warm up a few degrees soon.

•Geneva has its own international film festival, though I wouldn’t say it has the highest pedigree. (It presents both TV and motion pictures, and among those featured this year were last season’s Geena Davis failure Commander In Chief and he new James Woods lawyer show Shark.) Anyway, I went with some of the other interns on Friday evening to see an American indie called Choking Man which I didn’t dislike. It was apparently directed by the guy who did the video for A-Ha’s "Take On Me” as well as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie (go figure), and it had a great title sequence even if the pacing was a bit laborious and characters slightly exaggerated.

•On Saturday we celebrated former FI intern Nadia’s birthday by going out for fondue at the Chalet Suisse. It was my first taste of Swiss fondue and was just as delectable as the guidebooks would have you believe. Next I’ll have to try some raclette…

•This Sunday I’m headed to Dublin, Ireland for a mini-vacation along with one of the EAA interns. Can’t wait for my first pint of authentic Guinness!