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Check out my Spanish verb conjugator, with 1,200 Spanish verbs conjugated into all the simple tenses: Spanish verb conjugator

Someone sent me this link, and I can never repay her, because it’s pretty much the funniest thing I’ve read/seen all year:
JCPenney catalog from 1977.

I don’t “celebrate” Thanksgiving per se, but I certainly agree with taking a moment to be thankful. I hope that all of you have many things to be thankful for - I do.

American Thanksgiving dinner, with its traditional turkey as the main course, can be difficult for vegetarians. Here are some ideas to mix and match for your vegetarian Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving is a uniquely American celebration, but you still might want to talk about it in French or Spanish. Here’s some vocabulary related to American Thanksgiving:

French Thanksgiving Vocabulary
Spanish Thanksgiving Vocabulary

When talking about something that didn’t happen in the past, many English speakers use the conditional perfect (if I would have done) when they should be using the past perfect (if I had done):
Lesson on “If I would have…” vs “If I had…”

Linked In is a networking site where you can connect to present and past colleagues and classmates in order to build your own network for professional purposes. I don’t remember when or why I joined originally, but I now have over 50 connections, and have found and been found by several old friends through it. I don’t know how useful it is for work-related networking, but for personal networking, it’s great.

Yes, that’s right - the French visa court was so moved by our appeal that, after only a year of deliberation, they decided to grant us our long-stay visas. We picked them up last month, and now we’re good to go. We’ll be moving sometime between Febrary and April, 2008, but we’re not sure where yet. Originally, we planned to go back to Toulouse, since we loved it so much. But then I started thinking about how nice it would be to live near the beach, so Nice and Marseille started looking good. And then we wondered about living all over - spending a month or so in a dozen different cities, and that’s what we’re leaning toward right now. There are several problems with that:

1. It’s expensive to move once, let alone 12 times
2. It’d be a pain to find a new apartment every month
3. I would need a (likely expensive) wireless internet connection, because many French rentals don’t have fixed phones

I’ve got some good leads on number 3, so now I’m doing some research on number 2 - maybe we could find a rental agent who could help us find a place in each city, something like that.

In any case, it’s still all way up in the air, but at least now we know for sure that in just a few months we’ll be moving to France for a year - something I’ve been wanting to do for more than half my life.

It’s been ages since I blogged anything, and you’ve all probably given up on me, but now that I’m done with my book, things have settled down and I’m ready to blog again. Coming soon are more pictures of Costa Rica, details of our trip to Nicaragua, and other assorted goodies. LKL’s blog will live again!