The Further Adventures of Miss Kitten

The most traumatic thing that happened to me recently was being without my suitcase for a whole week when I was visiting family in California for Christmas. Yeah I know, this says something about how decidedly untraumatic my life really is. Being without one’s suitcase is not as bad as, say, losing a lifetime’s worth [...]

I keep hearing from my American friends and family how much it sucks to live in America right now and how horrible President Obama is, but I just wanted to make it clear that it’s so much worse over here.
Tomorrow I’ll have to go and see my neurologist and it will be cost me a [...]

At the moment I’m lying in bed with a box of lotion Kleenex and my laptop toplap. Under normal circumstances I’d be at work, but I’m taking a few days off due to an annoyingly bad headcold. My sinuses are all congested, making both breathing and thinking somewhat difficult and painful. Still I figured I [...]

The plot comes to a boil and thickens.
Just days after the operators of the Pirate Bay were convicted of being “accessories” to copyright infringement, it has emerged that the judge in the case is, in fact, a member of several copyright protection organizations, including the one bringing the case against the Pirate Bay. Although [...]

Well, it’s all over folks. Both sides have stated their cases and the verdict is in. The biggest and baddest villains in the history of the world, otherwise known as the operators of The Pirate Bay, are guilty! GUILTY!! of the disgusting crime of being accessories to copyright infringement. Justice has prevailed! …uh, sort [...]

Wow. I’m just…stunned.
Apparently, a prosecutor from Gävle, Sweden believes that prescribing birth control pills to girls under the age of fifteen (the legal age of consent here in Sweden) is a crime. Under Swedish law any sexual intercourse (consensual or not) with any one under the age of fifteen is statutory rape. Therefore, according to [...]

One of the weirder things about me is that I really enjoy musical productions.
I’ve been to local theater or touring performances of some of the greatest shows on earth, including: My Fair Lady, Grease, Fiddler on the Roof, Phantom of the Opera, Oliver, The Sound of Music, The Mikado, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor [...]

It all started when I answered the company’s ad on the Swedish Employment Bureau (Arbetsförmedlingen) website. The ad was for an English teaching position at an international summer camp in the UK.  About a week after sending in my application I got a call from their recruitment office. It was all very preliminary stuff, no [...]

I thought spring had surely arrived last week after a few plus temperature days where it was so sunny I had to dig my sunglasses out of the bottom of my purse.  It was also so warm outside I had to remove my cashmere scarf and open up my coat.
No such luck. It’s been coming [...]

Sorry, but I think I might have misheard you. It sounded like you said I’m supposed to totally abstain from sexual intercourse until I get married.  Oh, that is what you said.
Abstinence only?
Well, doesn’t that seem a little unrealistic? I mean, did you wait until you got married? What do you mean it’s [...]