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Leaving Armenia
It's hard to believe the trip is over. I haven't posted a lot because there really hasn't been a lot to say... It'd mostly just be a list of monasteries I visited that day. Outside the city, that's what you see. Monasteries. They were nice, though. I'll see if I can put some pics on Facebook ( Read more... ) -
Day #3 in Armenia
I'm not a package tour person, but I did one today. The package tours here are only about $2-3 more than public trans, and save a lot of the frustration of figuring it all out ( Read more... ) -
Day 2 in Armenia
So far I'm loving this country. It's like Europe... Done by the Russians. It's clean, pleasant, and you can breath the air ( Read more... ) -
2014 is Coming
We're on lockdown tomorrow. I'm not quite sure why. There are threats, but there are always threats. We don't go on lockdown over them. We pretty much only go on full lockdown if there's an actual attack. Occasionally on high risk days we go on restricted movement, or sometimes on lockdown in the morning until they see what the day looks like ( Read more... ) -
Why Michael O'Hare (Commander Jeffrey Sinclair) left Babylon 5
For the other Babylon 5 fans out there, I happened to come across the explanation for why Sinclair/O'Hare left B5. It seems that O'Hare was suffering from paranoid delusions, and it became too difficult for him to continue with the show. He wanted the truth to be known after he died, so Straczynski finally revealed the story this May at Comicon ( Read more... ) -
Checking in
I've been pretty bad about not updating lately ( Read more... ) -
Suggestions for Afghanistan presentation
The local librarian asked me (about a year ago) to do a presentation about Afghanistan at the local library, so I'm doing so.
I could talk for hours, but I'm never quite sure what people want to hear. So if you have any favorite stories I've told, or questions/topics you think I should bring up, please offer suggestions. -
A graduation to remember
Frankly speaking, graduations tend to be boring. AUAF's graduation today was one of the more unique graduation experiences I've had, though ( Read more... ) -
"Only in Afghanistan" discussions
We had a faculty senate meeting today and were discussing the various forms and documents for research on human subjects ( Read more... ) -
Bad things happen to other people
The president of the student government was shot the day before yesterday. He was driving back to Logar province and somehow the Taliban caught/shot him. He took one bullet to the stomach and another to the leg. The first person I heard it from (a housemate who is one of his teachers) had heard about it the day it happened and said he was in ( Read more... )