If I come back from Slovenia weighing 300 pounds, you can either blame the all-meat/bread/cheese diet (maybe that's not fair...they have mushrooms, too) or these amazing chocolate bars. You can probably get them in the U.S., but I've never had one before, and my God, they are delicious.
Today, in the midst of my Court-structure-summarizing (if my boss ever discovers Wikipedia, it'll put me out of a job), the man in charge came in and said he wants me to start researching the origins of two ideas "that have come from this...sweet stone." Considering the amount of English that is bungled in this country (People use the word "accured" a lot. Anyone want to translate?) I would have been justified in asking for a clarification. Fortunately, I knew what he was talking about, so all was well.
Today marks my grandparents' 60th (count em!) anniversary. That's just amazing. When they got married, World War II was a more recent memory than September 11th is today (although my grandfather was already trying to block out those memories), and Korea was still in the future. WolframAlpha tells me nothing useful about June 11, 1949, because it's completely useless for anything other than graphing. But who needs it. My mom's parents met each other on a blind date...actually, it was a double blind date, and they were each set up with the other person. But they took to each other, and pretty soon my grandfather showed up at my grandmother's doorstep holding a bouquet of flowers. "Are those for me!?" she asked giddily. "Nope, they're for your mother," he replied. What a mensch. Anyway, they've been together ever since. They're a great duo...good senses of humor (sometimes punny, sometimes a little off-color), a lifetime of involvement in the arts (Bucky was acting up until a couple of years ago, and Griz is still sculpting), and tremendous affection for each other after all these years. Sure, their age is starting to show more than a little, but I admire and even envy what they have. So cheers to Griz and Bucky and their sixty years of marriage. Woot!
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