List #429: 10 Awesome Things About Wales

List #429: 10 Awesome Things About Wales (or things that are Welsh)

1. Snowdonia

2. Harlech Castle (among others)

3. The Joy Formidable and Los Campesinos!

4. The letter "ll" (and the rest of the language)

5. Slate

6. Owain Glyn Dwr

7. Leeks

8. Y Ddraig Goch (which I get to see every day)

9. The names Rhys and Angharad

10. Cawl

List #359: Heritages, in order of identification

List #359: Heritages, in order of identification (not necessarily composition)

1. Swedish
2. Welsh
3. Polish
4. Dutch
5. German
6. English

List #348: Favorite College / Grad School courses

List #348: Favorite College / Grad School courses

1. LIS 508 : History of Recorded Information (UW)
2. Jazz History (Carleton)
3. Survey of Southern African History and Senior Seminar: Africa(Carleton)
4. The upper-level Medieval Welsh History course (UNW Bangor)
5. Musical Biography and Autobiography (Carleton)
6. LIS 510 (UW, because Trent was cool)
7. Intro Sociology (Carleton)
8. Intro Linguistics (Carleton)
9. Bandits (Carleton)
10. Francophone Literature of West Africa and the Caribbean, in translation (Carleton)

List #29: Favorite Wales '99 Memories

List #29: Favorite Wales '99 Memories (10 of many many great ones)

1. Whistlestop tour of N. Wales with Skippy (Harlech, Snowdonia, Beaumaris, Pen Mon, Dolwyddelan, the "Lost Film")
2. Thanksgiving in December
3. Pub Quizzes at the Ffesant and Firkin and the Albion hotel
4. Trip to Ireland
5. Going out with the Field Hockey team
6. Visit from Hannah (that led to her Ph.D.)
7. Playing pool at the sports bar at the Ffridd site
8. The Questionable cheeseburger cart
9. Glenrafon Hill
10. The view out my window

Also, March is International Nic should try new things month (we'll see how long that lasts...):
Today's New Thing: I ate Kumquats for the first time.