Training of trainers and orientation days are finished, and I’m back in the capital for the first full weekend “off” I’ve had here. Course, I’m working on other things – friends of mongolia newsletter, thesis, IT stuff, banana bread? – but at least it’s a change. It’s pretty quiet here due to world cup, but [...]
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aaaah work aah. Today’s the first day off in a bit and I’m working on other work. Baah.
On the other hand, walking around checking housing for the trainees was fun – and made me miss my host family. The training site soum we were at was so peaceful and the drive there was beautiful. Sigh.
Today [...]
Today was a good work day – and probably the first serious one since I’ve gotten into Texas…
got through all my backlogged Mongolia and US correspondence, wrapped up a few reunion-related things, started my t-mobile plan migration (only 15 min left and still have 2 weeks before next billing cycle), replied to everything re: school [...]
Lubbock to Dallas:
2 “entertainment” lounges containing the word “willie”: “chili willie’s” and “wet willies.” I’m not sure which is more appealing…
“Midnight Rodeo” club in Lubbock – $1 longnecks(?), college ID before 9pm get in free, all sorts of music, and (really) improved security so you can feel safe there – per the radio spot.
haircut – [...]
Things seen:
A Hite beer billboard in Arizona
Start of I-40 (sign said Wilmington, NC 2300 (ish) miles)
A marked lack of “Dockside Babes” billboards (perhaps only in the SE?)
Things seen:
A Hite beer billboard in Arizona
Start of I-40 (sign said Wilmington, NC 2300 (ish) miles)
A marked lack of “Dockside Babes” billboards (perhaps only in the SE?)
So, some may remember the boneheadedness I had last time in Seoul in missing my connecting flight back to UB, and having to live in the airport for an extra two days or so.
This morning I just realized, also in Seoul, that my 11:00 flight is 11:00 AM, not PM. I realized this at 9:00 [...]
I broke this blog somehow, but random copying and pasting of files figured things out, I believe.
Anywho, I COSed (close of service = wrapping up Peace Corps) technically last Friday. So I’m free and clear…though thesis-less still.
On the other hand, I just heard back from IRB that I qualify for exempt status possibly, so things [...]
but here has been random and work-ful.
brief notes of things to come (in a marked lack of temporal order):
slow-dancing with 12-year-olds
being apartment-less yet still in Khovd
being overly directive and accidentally pressuring concerning eating a green bean off the sidewalk
offending people
smushing bugs with my hands then wiping them on my pants
foreign service examinations - why me?
meringue [...]
Long radio silence, but since our last episode:
Trip to Thailand - note that spiders = personal kryptonite and people are very very nice
Work in Khovd - some cool stuff working with adolescents - want to keep on doing this kind of work later, as they all are on break in a week and thus work [...]
it costs more to take a shower than to buy a Shanghai Spicy Chicken Sandwich meal at McDonald’s. And they want to leave earlier than the posted hours.
Suggestion for next time - the shower is free, it’s the kit - namely, a Mongolia-sized (Bonnie knows what this means) towel and toiletries - that costs the [...]
I changed 320,000 tugriks today. It equals about $203 US dollars. If I had changed it at the same time last year it would’ve been over $275 dollars. Sigh…
Maybe from now on every time I have money left in my account after salary deposit I should change it directly to dollars as [...]
This article (the No-Stats All-Star) from the New York Times is a nice combination of things I like - mostly because its main example is Shane Battier. And, of course, statistics. The analogies to how basketball is one of the sports more like real life are pretty interesting too.
aka valuable future investments of my readjustment allowance:
geek clock
plush squid hat
In case you may be interested in this, it’s sort of a mess as I feel like I read a good line of research/methods, dash off in that direction, just to find a then-better line of research methods, running at a slightly divergent angle from the current point. Looking over my shoulder at the [...]
From The Guardian a list of 1000(!) books “everyone must read”
From one of my favorite blogs apparently a thingy called “Anthology Builder” for your own bespoke book (limited, of course, to the short stories they can publish). A post about this here.
I’ve heard there’s some unprecedented stuff going on - Bonnie tells me people have like a 3-hour break off work to watch the inauguration and places all over campus will have things set up to watch. It also sounds like a bunch of people are getting themselves to DC, or having viewing parties, or [...]
Happy festivities to all and welcome to the year of my return!!!! bwahahahaha
With that, there are various (additional) random photos in my picasa thingy that illustrate the deep emotions and incredible personal expansion I’ve been having over the, oh, past two weeks. These events include cooking, standing on a frozen lake on and off for [...]
A quick note - the latest version (3.07) of ext_db_auth now works with Wordpres 2.7. It’s in the same place as usual. This version, however, is NOT compatible with WPMU. You’ll still need to use 2.05 with that.
Once WPMU hits 2.7 it may be broken again for that particular flavor; we’ll see.
New Year’s day was pretty low-key - just a day full of cooking with one of my sitemates. It’s apparently an enabling environment, as by the end of the day we had a liter and a half of kahlua, baklava, cream cheese-apricot strudel, pineapple upside-down cake, buttermilk pancakes, and an entire mexican dinner (horse-meat fajitas [...]
From this article from the NYTimes of cost-saving items…let’s see how it fares here:
1. Oats: Expensive where I’m at, though not necessarily in UB. That typical cylinder-type thing here? About $3.
2. Eggs: Cost about twice as much here as what’s cited in the article - around 30 cents apiece.
3. Kale: Hahaha…I wish.
4. Potatoes: Cheap for [...]
I have to admit, there is a certain visceral happiness to eating cake and champagne twice in one day, as well as being given goodie bags by various people for new year’s.
It doesn’t match up at all, though, to the joy I experience watching my coworkers grimace and frown their way through a few shots [...]
An interesting article in the NYTimes about censorship at google. The accompanying pictures are happily pixel-like art and made me laugh.
In this case, there’s not really anyone watching the de facto watchmen per se. But it’s interesting to hear about how Google censors its content. Censor may be too strong a word, though…as it sounds [...]
First, a few words I want to remember:
хэрхэн - Similar to яаж but used more in writing, while яаж is more spoken. Хэрхэн is often used in the sense of “How to do ____” rather than as a question word, or so I’ve been led to believe.
итгэл тавих - Guessing from context, but I believe [...]
Wordpress says in the back that I’m at post 299 - and it has said so for a while, even as I add posts. Apparently it just won’t give me that nice 300.
In other news, my plane was delayed because the Prime Minister said so. Hmm.
In other other news, Jen said she dreamed about a [...]
I’m tired, but damn, was it tasty…that’s all I’ve eaten for the past 2 days - I’m kind of hoping there are still some leftovers to eat tomorrow too!
The local chicken, after all was said and done, was closer to a cornish game hen size, while the chicken that was brought from UB was a [...]
So, I believe the baby-in-progress count for people I know pretty well is at 3. Including people I don’t know as well the count doubles. Ugh. What’s with the babies!? Am I missing out on something?
Jen’s cat is behind my computer and poking his head around the corner of the screen comically…
Oh, and work - [...]
I was almost excited to see that Dr. Who premiered on the 24th; unfortunately it was the 23rd.
From wikipedia, today in…
1898 - International Conference of Rome for the Social Defense Against Anarchists opened (sorry Andy)
1940 - Slovakia officially joined the Axis powers
1966 - NYC experiences the smoggiest day in the city’s history
…and about 6 airline [...]
Ok, now it’s semi-official with a group and cause on Facebook and all. You all get to send me fewer packages if they let me buy cheese here Here’s the deal:
Fund Peace Corps
What: A congressional letter writing campaign for individuals who care about Peace Corps to highlight the impact of the current budget crisis [...]
I recently read the online (and print-available) Last Blood and quite enjoyed it. The second volume/arc is still in process, and I was a little disappointed to be brought up short (to date). But I look forward to the next installments.
I did find the blog commentary attached to individual pages a tad annoying though…
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