Holy hell it's been years since I updated this bastard! Since internet is that inconvenient combination of rare and expensive here, I've been sticking mostly to the parent-friendly page that narrates (in a very PG manner) the life of a Peace Corps volunteer ( Read more... )

Hey all! I'm happily lodged in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the government's expense. Me and 56 other individuals are going to spend ten hours tomorrow locked in a conference room with no windows, probably making more posters with crayola markers and wondering if the unsteady sensation in our heads is due to the excitement or the malaria meds ( Read more... )

Wow. Is it September 5th already? Despite my every attempt, I can only manage to partially fathom that in less than twenty days I'll be getting on a plane and flying away to start an entirely new life in a country so unlike Oregon that it might as well be Mars. The more I talk about it, the more it all feels like a dream ( Read more... )

What a day! Some brief items of note ( Read more... )

Hello all. What to say? Camping was amazingly fantastic, just like it always is. I rediscovered my passionate love for balls and sausage, ate, drank, and smoked as much as I giggled, passed out both nights in my jeans with dirty feet, and to top it all off, somehow spent the wee-est hours of Sunday morning fooling around in the sand down by the ( Read more... )

Dude, dude, dude ( Read more... )

Jo came home a few days early from her hiking excursions in the Northern Cascades, but it's so nice here that I'm not headed back to Scappoose until tomorrow. I took the more vigorous of the two dogs for a hike today, and was shortly after taken out for a fabulously gluttonous evening of Indian food at the Bombay Cricket Club ( Read more... )

I have discovered that I talk to myself when there is nobody around except animals for a couple days straight. For awhile I was dilluding myself into the misconception that I was, in fact, addressing the dogs with my words. This was until I realized that I can say anything from, "go lay down" to "hard-boiled walrus eggs" and Jake will sit up and ( Read more... )

I just got back on Sunday evening from a fabulous Canadian adventure with my mom and sister. We spent a week traveling through the nether-regions of British Columbia, staying in youth hostels for a simultaneously cheaper bill and richer experience. The presence of mom on the trip did not prevent several drunken nights on the town, nor my sister ( Read more... )

Okay dudes, so I finally found out this afternoon that as of the end of September I'll be headed off to Mozambique for two years and three months!

The official language that I will have to learn is Portuguese, and the climate is tropical to subtropical, depending on where you are.

More info to come, but in the meantime, HUZZAH!!

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