Mt. Meru: 14,980 feet. Taller than any mountain in the Rockies. We ascend from about 1,400, which is Arusha’s altitude. It’ll be the tallest mountain I’ve ever climbed, beating Mt. Elgon handily. The tour company booked us huts, so we won’t have to tent it.  The touring company is also providing everything but snacks to [...]

So, some of you may not care about the work I’m doing or crazy adventures I’m having. BUT I’m sure you’re all super excited to hear what I’ve been eating! I’ve been cooking a lot, from curries to marinara sauce to fajitas.  Yesterday I made something particularly tasty, however: Pineapple Curry. Ingredients: 3 cloves garlic [...]

So. Work finally started to pick up, although not without its kinks and hiccups, which, of course, were tied to the ICTR computer people actually getting us set up. But I should really not bitch about that too much.  UN bureaucracy sucks. I need to deal with it. What has really been distracting business on the Tribunal [...]

The summer in Arusha began in typical East African fashion; the ICTR forgot to pick us up from the airport. On the bright side, all of my bags made it to Tanzania, which was something I was really afraid wouldn’t happen. I didn’t do such a good job of spreading things out among bags, so [...]

24 hours.  1,440 minutes. That’s the amount of time I have left before I board a plane for Detroit, and then Amsterdam, and then Nairobi, and finally Kilimanjaro. My pre-trip checklist has a refreshing number of lines drawn through it, and it seems like it won’t be a last minute packing job, for once. The [...]

So, admittedly its been awhile.  The reason I’m even trying to post more frequently on this thing is because I’m probably going to be out of reliable internet contact for the next three months. For those of you who don’t know, I’ll be working in Arusha, Tanzania on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda for [...]

So breaking away from the biographical posts, which will continue to come every once in a while, I’m baffled by the way the presidential campaign is going.  Why would McCain a) make a big deal about pulling out of Michigan, like it’s a good thing and b) announce to everybody that he’s about to go [...]

The thing that surpised me the most about living in Uganda for two years was that once the initial shock and the initial adjustment period wore off, life went on pretty much as usual.  Yes, there is poverty, and occasionally it can be staggering.  There are many more “have nots” than “haves.” But pretty soon [...]

This is my first stab at a blog in quite a while.  My time in Uganda made doing a blog unrealistic; I had internet access maybe two or three times a month until I had about 3 months left.  It just didn’t leave me the time to do a decent job.  This will basically be [...]

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