It’s my last Hump Day in Poland, and there’s lots to do: talks to write and look over, science papers to read, walks to take, and pies to eat. I don’t know how I manage to cram so much into one day, or so much pie into my maw. (Seriously, folks, I’m abstemious, and will be here all week.) A week from today I’ll be in Atlanta, probably deeply jet-lagged and hassled (I have a burgeoning fear of the Newark Airport, which I imagine as Customs and Baggage Hell). Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, today’s Hili Dialogue features a photo I took, catching Editor Hili just at the moment when she’s feeling peckish. But that’s not hard: 85% of her moments are just like that!
Hili: Could we stop work now and have a look at it from the kitchen?
A: Is there any other option?
Hili: No, there isn’t.(Photo: Jerry Coyne)
In Polish:Hili: Czy moglibyśmy teraz przestać pracować i spojrzeć na to wszystko od kuchni.
Ja: A jest inna opcja?
Hili: Nie ma.
(Zdjęcie: Jerry Coyne)
Carla loves to sit on my desk or lap and I enjoy my ambivalence about it.
Aw! 🙂
Well, that’s Jerry’s chance of getting a driving license from Ohio ruined. I’m sure abstemious people offend someone’s religious scruples.
Oh, waiting for an Ohio Bigotry license.
Has the Ohio Tourist Board sued Kim Davis (if that was the buffoon’s name) for ruining their hard work to dispel the lingering stench of Monkey Trials.
I have a horrible feeling I’m forgetting my foreign geography, but WTF.
I’m foreign too, and I think you mught be forgetting your geography, but it’s all the USA, and it could only happen there! 🙂
Fate tempted. Seriously!
Got the copper boots on? Silver-coated chain mail? Looks like lightning.
She’ll be right mate! Besides, no-one even cares what our prime minister says, let alone a nobody living in the back of beyond.
Abstemious?!! That is not a term most North Americans would identify with.
The first time I heard they had professional food eating competitions, I thought I was being had!
LOL!! Yes, most people think they are being had when they check their BMI!! Most common responses: The BMI is absolutely wrong. You know they are the same people that are into dietary supplements, “organic” GMO-free food!!
I think most Americans would think it means one has steamy abs….
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Attained by protein supplementation!!
I dunno…is that what plants crave?
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Do you mean vegetables?
No…I mean electrolytes.
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Will you be talking in/near Atlanta, or just flying through?
Newark airport or Newark the city. I would not wish to see either again. Bayonne is not so bad.
Hili schools Andrzej on the rhetorical question.
Good one!
It is hard to tell who is more spoilt – Hili or Jerry.
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Well really, can you think of anyone more deserving of same than they are?
Thanks for the vocabulary lesson.
The only time I ever flew through Newark it was, indeed, hell – longest most chaotic security line I have ever seen anywhere. Ended up running for my connection a la O.J., only to find out that the connection was an hour late. Will do anything to avoid the place. Perhaps, to be charitable, it’s better now that fifteen years have passed.
I have the same feelings about LAX.
I don’t fly very much, and perhaps I was just unlucky, but Newark is by far the filthiest airport I’ve experienced. Like I imagine public places would be in the midst of a cholera epidemic, or Bourbon Street during Mardi Gras. OK maybe not quite that bad, but you get the idea.
o.O
Newark –how well I remember the luggage tractor backing over my suitcase and destroying it. Oddly enough it did not destroy my reasonably expensive camera, and they exchanged the wreckage for a brand new cheap suitcase. The whole event delayed my travel by only an hour or so.
Bon voyage…………
Abstemious! My favorite all-the-vowels word, since it has them each once, and in alphabetical order.
Your erudition is unquestionable (another one).
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