That's almost two decades.

I get an email reminder that I've been on this site for that long, even though I haven't touched it for well over 13 years.

Holy shit.  Does anyone still exist?

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Aww, how sweet! My host-mother from when I visited Nigeria just called me on my cell phone. She's in the US, attending a conference, and wanted to say hello! Damn, I'm missing them ( Read more... )

Wow. They pull no punches in primary school in Nigeria. Typically all the walls of a primary school will have the English alphabet, with pictures and a little ditty such as "A is for Apple".

This one school in Ibadan had this:


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Well, two weeks ago I've returned from Nigeria. I had lost the password to the journal I created specifically for the purpose of documenting my trip. Alas ( Read more... )

Okay. I've started a journal solely for my trip to Nigeria. For those of you interested in seeing my bizarre travels to Africa, you can see my entries at ( Read more... )

Two weeks from today, I will be on a plane, going overseas for the first time ever ( Read more... )

It's been over a year since my grandfather died, someone I cared about very, very much. Anyway, I'm looking on my Yahoo Messenger contact list, and there is his old user ID... And I can't bring myself to delete it.

So, on Monday, I turned 31. I'm now older than 30. It was pretty cool, because for once, on my birthday, I did jack squat. I did nothing but hang around in bed all day. It was pretty nice ( Read more... )

Seriously, what is going on? The brushfires around here are awful. Today, the smoke's flowing through the city, and I can't go outside because of it... and the rain of ashes. I've not been given an evacuation order, because the actual fire is 50 miles away, but it's doing a number on my health ( Read more... )