April 14, 2006

Upon realizing one is the less-funny sibling

My sister Susannah lives in London and works as a parliamentary reporter. This is us aboard a BritRail commuter train this past Christmas. She's the one on the right.



If you've been reading this site for awhile you know that Susannah keeps a blog, too. Here's an excerpt from the latest entry, which is titled, "sorry, no hot sex girl photos here: a craigslist-style meditation":
Dear Unknown Kuwaiti Civil Servant,

I notice that you've been visiting my blog quite often recently. StatCounter has a nifty function called "Came From" which shows the referring pages and IP addresses of nearly everyone who visits my blog, and you've come up three times in the past week. The first time you visited was on April 5, when you were searching for "hot sex photos". You didn't stay long -- I guess my photos of historic London pubs and primroses didn't entice you -- but I was pleased to see that you were back twice today looking for "hot ladies photos", and that you stayed a whole 13 seconds before navigating away, presumably in search of actual porn.
I advise you not to read the rest if you're currently in any sort of micro-managed employment situation. Really, you may have to slip under your desk and breathe into a paper bag for awhile.

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