Julia Park Tracey

I’m falling behind again (so what ese is new?), mostly because of lots of deadlines and clients. But, per the headline above, we celebrated Chinese New Year earlier this week, just because, by serving up a feast of yummy stuff (rice, vegetable and shrimp stir fry, hot and sour soup, pot stickers, fortune cookies, and chow mein noodles, not in that order). We also watched this terrible but also terribly funny kung fu spoof movie called Kung Pow which is so stupid I won’t even try to bore you with the plot, but it’s kind of like Police Academy or Airplane, making fun of the cliches of Chinese action movies.…

Missive from Mia I have discovered a new passion for bikram yoga. It’s true! It’s absolutely incredible! Even in my dance classes, i don’t know if i have been able to completely block out EVERYTHING and not care that i am sweating buckets and have frizzy hair and smell and let my gut hang out etc. haha. it’s really amazing. i thought i’d be good at it, what with the dancing and all but actually, it’s completely different and wow — i’m amazed. this studio just opened up right around the corner (one of the only five in england) and so we got a 10 classes for £10 deal, which…

Missive From Mia Hiiii, mama. i miss you!! i am actually on my break at work but i discovered the dana center (which is right behind and affiliate with the science museum) has free internet access! woohoo! so here is a quick line/update on life here in the UK. a) i’m BROKE! but i get paid tomorrow and so will see what life will mean for the next month a.k.a. my birthday month! Mama’s note: Mia’s birthday is Feb 27 and she’ll be 21. My baby! b) we went to chinese new year with some kids from work last night but everything really exciting was over and we basically admired…

Missive From Mia thank you for my gloves! i got them today and was glad to see a little love note stuck in there. glad to see also, that the address i am handing out is right. don’t send me the book. i found good ol’ bill for like £2 in a bookstore by work. As for the phone: yeah, we were in harrods and had [terrible] service. that place is amazing! work is really fun. well…work is lame but the people are a blast! I have a friend already (as in, gone to lunch several times and have a shopping/movie date tomorrow) with Emma, this really nice girl from…

Finally got off jury duty, with my integrity intact. Although I would have liked to have fed them a line about my white supremacy activities or my hatred of lawyers or belief that people are guilty until proven innocent, I rather found myself compelled to give my best to the process and was brutally honest in my answers. The fact that I am a journalist who is working on a story about a club where some of the action of the crime took place was pretty much enough to get me dismissed. But I hung in there until the end. So I guess I have a six-month reprieve until I’m…