After soccer, a friend asks if I want to go for a beer. I go. It turns out it wasn't a bar he wanted to go to, but a wedding reception. I guess my Czech still

I go to bed with my pajamas on backwards, and so wake up lying on the ceiling. It scares me at first, but I quickly get used to it. Standing upside-down on the ceiling, my head is about

Here's an admission: Sometimes two things happen on one day, and on many days nothing happens. So I fiddle the dates of the entries in my blog. God: That's not the only thing you

There are only two empty seats on the tram- the one beside me and the one beside the man in front of me. An old lady gets on. As she goes to sit beside me, she glances at

We are sitting in our post-doc office in Malostranske namesti.  A pigeon alights on the window sill. I tell Zoran that I hope it doesn't come in because pigeons are dirty dirty birds. He disagrees. He

A lady comes up to me on the street. Lady: You know what your problem is? Me: Yeah. Lady: And what are you going to do about it? Me: You know. Lady: I'm glad we got

I go shopping. I buy a passion fruit. When I get to the till, the cashier asks me what the passion fruit is. Thinking it'll save me some money, I tell him it's a

I fly up to Copenhagen. I will spend the next week and a half solidifying my position as Jack's favourite uncle. I arrive at Copenhagen, and Richard is late coming to pick me up. When he