It’s been a week and a half now and I’m ready to say, guess who has a Swiss bank account? That’s right, now every time you’re thinking of PayPaling me, I can just open my silver metal briefcase, punch some buttons on the control panel, and instead have all of those funds wired right over [...]
I know everyone’s been trying to IM, mail, call, smoke signal, etc. and I’m sorry for not giving substantial feedback, but if I responded to every “How’s Zurich?” question I wouldn’t work for Google, I’d have a company called “Jess’ Personal Zurich Information Service” and it would involve answering that question 40 hours a week, [...]
I’ve made it to Frankfurt airport, from which I’ve uploaded this entry for your real-time enjoyment. But first, let me recap my last two weeks of titillating discourse with the relocation company, my company, and the Swiss corporate housing folks.
It goes something like this:
Monday, January 7, 13 days till Zurich: Discover by accident that I’m [...]
It’s snowing big, lusty flakes here in Chicago, the kind that pad the sidewalk white and make conspicuous your trip to the corner coffee shop. From the 29th floor of this highrise apartment I can see the white lights of so many homeward bound people alone in their cars, some slow, some swerving and darting, [...]
The movers came today in a flurry of boxes and paper, some Spanish and English, and all manner of truck packing efficiency. I placed some stickers on various possessions, then stood by uselessly as they rolled everything in acres of brown paper and miles of tape.
“I found it illuminating,” a designer in the Zurich office [...]
I sometimes wonder why people come to my shindigs; is it because of my sweet self or because I tag otherwise normal ski trips and Mexican dinners with cool titles? Perhaps I shouldn’t hope too hard for the latter, since the former is a much better reason, but who doesn’t want to be remembered as [...]
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