My last day in Kuwait for a while, and I can't say I'm going to shed any tears. You're a strange, messed up, doomed little country, Kuwait, but you have taught me much. Good luck; you'll need it.

( Happy New Year everyone, and don't drink and drive, especially in Kuwait. )

We had a couple guests for Christmas dinner last night, one of which was an American woman doing relief work up in southern Iraq. Something about her seemed very familiar, but I couldn't figure out what until I told her what school I'm in. It turns out she spent a semester in Friends World Kenya, back when it existed. She still acts just like a ( Read more... )

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Another little thing that nobody else will care about, but I'm still going to post because I'm happy.

Jack does Redwall! (With an Army of Darkness reference thrown in for good measure ( Read more... )

http://politicalcompass.org/

Interesting, as quizzes go. Where am I on the compass? -8.62 x -7.03, Exactly opposite George Bush and Ariel Sharon. Over there with Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama. Not bad.

Pollen in Arabia has appeared on the Belfry Comics Index, just in time for its completion! Well, it's a big deal to me. The Belfry is the guide to cool, mostly-furry webcomics. Makes me all proud seeing PiA up there ( Read more... )

I fly out of Muscat in a couple hours to the wholesale carnival of celebration that must be Kuwait right now (that is, as their national nemesis just got thrown in the toture chamber.) Anyway, there's a whole bunch of stuff I could write about here--my travels in Oman, the strange people I met, my lomo adventures, my horribly misguided attempt at a ( Read more... )

There is a boy.

Er, no, not really. I'm just off to the Pirate Coast for a while, with full intentions to lomo the hell out of Muscat, Arabia Felix, the Empty Quarter and the Mother of Poison.

*just read Wilfred Thesiger's Arabian Sands in one 10-hour sitting*

Okay. I'm going to Oman on the 30th for possibly 20 days, and I'm supposed to finish off the comic--and thus semester--there. As I promised Rajini 20 pages for that section, I would have to do at least a page a day, which is pretty much what I've done for the other two. BUT I just came across an alternative idea, something more than crazy enough to ( Read more... )

Yay, I'm so pleased with myself. Now my problem is getting motivated to go back and study all the Arabic I've forgotten while writing. Meanwhile I'm spending the weekend proofing Victorian-era furry transformation fic for Project Gutenberg. Don't ask ( Read more... )