Ok, it's a very late postscript, but a postscript nonetheless... I recently returned back home (to Chicago of course) from a final trip (at least for now) to France to retrieve the last of my things. Honestly, it was strange...

This will be one of my last posts here - I'm going to be leaving France soon, and JMo in (random US city) just isn't as interesting a topic. I started this journal to keep friends up to date on...

It's kind of fitting right now, and that's all I'm going to say about that. More photos of the Rodin Museum are in the Paris album. It was a gorgeous day today.

The heat came on today - I was doing a little dance as I was going around bleeding the radiators. I think I'll let it warm up to about 80 in here for a couple of days. I have four...

Tucson was definitely worth seeing (again). We did go to Oktoberfest on Mt. Lemmon too - which at 9000 ft. didn't look anything like Tucson (grass! trees! cool weather!) Tucson was in the upper 90s during most of the visit,...

I'll be connecting through Chicago tomorrow (of course) so I thought I'd add this picture of the bean in Millenium Park. I'm all packed, with my festive polar bear boxers that my best friend gave me at the top of...

Ah, fall in France; crisp, clear blue skies, and the smell of upcoming winter in the air. Or that might be dog poo that I smell. Fall is the time of la rentrée, when the town is reacquainted with hordes...

I do try, I really do. I'd even say that I have begun to understand the true meaning of patience since moving here. But when I've been waiting for 20 minutes for the check at the restaurant so we don't...

OK, the recap of the past couple of weeks: For three days the apartment didn't have water during the day as they were doing something to our pipes, although I suspect one of the things they did was lower the...