Posted in Uncategorized, tagged america, citizenship, constitution, cranial trauma, dollhouse, eliza dushku, family, gay marriage, joss whedon on May 9, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Just a few bits regarding some of my favorite posting topics:
Dollhouse: The season finale of Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse last night was amazing, astounding, astonishing, and quite possibly a lot of other words beginning with A.
For those of you who are interested in the show, but haven’t yet caught last week’s episode or last night’s, I’m [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged america, citizenship on May 8, 2009 | 14 Comments »
At 10:37 this morning, I was officially sworn in as a citizen of the United States.
While this doesn’t change very much in terms of my day-to-day life, it still represents a new chapter, the completion of a process which began with my moving over here eight years ago.
The last time I was in this room, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged america, asl, bizarre copier incident, blankie, bunny, circuits o'toole, citizenship, coffee, commuting, compliments, crush limbaugh, distructor, dr pepper, electromagnet, fred the robot, giant robert, giant robot, heimlich maneuver, hiccups, humor, javascript, liveblog, lucinda, macarena, mister sexypants, on your feet, papercut, peanut butter, robot, rush limbaugh, shower, snoring, terminator, visualization, voda, work, wtf, xml on April 24, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I’m following some unusual advice today, from the good folks at On Your Feet:
“Go through your entire day visualizing that you have a personal giant robot that protects you, defends you and gives you outrageous compliments.”
It sounded like fun. And I’m going to liveblog it so you can see all the action as it happens.
7:00am [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 31days, america, citizenship on April 9, 2009 | 4 Comments »
What to these have in common? They’re all easy. In the last case, this is only allegedly, in case her lawyers are reading. ‘Cause, you know, this little blog would be a major threat to them.
But what of it? Why am I talking about easy things?
Oh yeah – my citizenship exam. The guy didn’t bother [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged america, citizenship, government on April 8, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Tomorrow is my interview for naturalization as a U.S. citizen, along with the testing of my literacy in English and my knowledge of American history and government.
It’s been a long road to get here (Interstate 90, actually, back and forth to Buffalo a gazillion times) and for a long time I wasn’t going to bother [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged america, citizenship, fingerprints, immigration on January 2, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I’m interrupting “9 for ‘09″ here to report that I have now had my fingerprints taken for the FBI to run a check on me.
That sounds ominous and “dude, what did he get caught doing?”-y. But now I’m going to take the bad-boy-glamorous shine off it.
This is actually a requirement during the process of becoming [...]
