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holiday-2010--yes, still alive.
Uhhhhh late Merry Christmas. Mine was weird. I think it has something to do with 75 degree weather and lots of Asians (if I pretended real hard, I could've been on the West Coast) and a lack of Christmasy things. I did make mulled wine, though, and I decorated some teak trees with tinsel and lights ( Read more... ) -
this 'n' that: list form.
1.) 19 days until Gragen comes and stays for a MONTH. I just booked the only private room in a trendy/hipstery hostel in Bangkok for four days when he gets here, and I'm really really really reallyreallyreally ridiculously excited. (PS: Michelle, when are you coming out here ( Read more... ) -
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Sah-pain (or Spain, for those of you who speak English without a Thai accent) won the World Cup. Old news, but I haven't updated in a while. Too bad the final was at 1:30am on Monday morning and I was on the night bus back up to Chiang Rai from Bangkok. Happy about it. After the U.S. lost to Ghana (didn't expect them to get that far), and then ( Read more... ) -
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Today's Kru Day (Teacher Appreciation). I expect, from each of my 650 students, at least a cake. Each. I also expect classes to be cancelled, because Thursday's my busy day and it's really hot out. But it's always really hot out, sooooooo nothing new there ( Read more... ) -
Thaiworld
First day of school today. I taught the word "favorite" by comparing football teams (Manchester United vs Chelsea). I don't watch football, I don't follow it period. But for some reason the Thais LOVE English football teams, and so I think I got it through to them. I might try and teach them how to play baseball, and make them diehard Red Sox fans ( Read more... ) -
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I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT TO BRING TO THAILAND ( Read more... ) -
oh yeah, that's right, I'm doing ME.
I'm going to a MOTHERFUCKING business trip on MOTHERFUCKING Martha's Vinyard next week with my bosses, for the annual New England Teaching Hospital Compensation Conference. Sex sex sexxxxxxx. I'm pumped because I'm pretty sure that all I have to do is make nametags and tell people where the bathroom is, and I looked at the hotel and the menu for ( Read more... ) -
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My grandmother died last night at 1:30am. I got the call this morning while I was in bed with Gragen, and I thought it was my mother calling to yell at me for not coming home last night. I kinda wish it had been. I'm so happy I saw her last Sunday, even though she didn't really recognize me and called me a combination of Mary, Theresa, and ( Read more... ) -
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I got my gallbladder removed at Dartmouth yesterday. And it's freaking blizzarding out. Every time I have surgery there's some form of extreme meteorological action going on. With the wisdom teeth it was miserable because it was the hottest week of the summer, which definitely didn't help the swelling. But with gally, here, it's lots of snow... ( Read more... ) -
the only place you'll wanna be is underneath my christmas tree
Life is so so so hectic lately. I'm back and forth from VT to NY every weekend to take care of my grandmother while her regular live-in aide takes some mental health days (I can see why she needs them), and the weather has been so awful lately--and I'm sans snow tires, though they are in my trunk--that I've either been stranded in the Catskills or ( Read more... )