A shrimp po boy. I came back to an OMG DO THIS NOWNOWNOW request, so I had to wolf it down in about 2 minutes flat, but it was still darn tasty.

I feel like I should do something special for the rapture, but I can think is that I should make some potato salad, barbecue chicken, and watch crappy television.

I can think is that I should make some potato salad, barbecue chicken, and watch crappy television.

Mmmm.... Rapture food.

I read on Wonkette some people are planning on leaving shoes and piles of clothes here and there, to make make people think others were Raptured and they were left behind, but Wonkette's link for this was wrong so maybe they made this up.

Porch party cancelled on account of some crisis or other. Boo! And I have all this crap. May just have to throw one myself this weekend (this one had a particular celebration point and the guest of honor couldn't manage it.)

Ah well, it is damp and dreary out.

Any worldtraveleristas know anything about travel insurance?

(Not that I put this off or anything...)

Uh, my parents got it for both the Peru trip and Bhutan and Nepal. Since we were going to be hiking on scary mountains, it would have paid for you know, getting airlifted out if we fell off one. Can't remember who it was, though.

I didn't get it when I was in school in Prague.

Not much help, I know.

I wanna travel.

I wanna job as a librarian. I was just lusting after a posting at the federal jobs website for a position at the Smithsonian's American History museum, my favorite museum in the world.

Any worldtraveleristas know anything about travel insurance?

I got some for my round the world trip, but didn't need to use it (and they kept emailing me forever after). I used some sort of aggregator of travel insurance on the web. But there's also a post on my fave travel blog ("View from the Wing") today about how it may not really be worth it. It really depends on where you're going and what you're getting it for. For medical stuff? For cancelations? For "my luggage got lost"? For the first, you may be covered by the country you're going to (well, it might be cheaper), and your currrent insurance may cover you. For the second, there's so many caveats, it may just be worth paying a change fee, depending on what you're insuring. The last...probably not worth it at all.

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My main concern is "if I get hit by a bus and/or war breaks out and I need to be evacuated" insurance.

::runs off to read article::

I am totally earwormed with this, so I am inflicting it on you:

(PS: Andy Samberg has a really cute smile. Huh.)

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