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Adventures in medicine
Tonight was the first somewhat negative experience I've had with the Colombian healthcare system ( Read more... ) -
My students are so cool.
I've been teaching for almost a month now. I currently live in a small city in the coffee region of Colombia, working at a public technical college with free tuition. I'm scheduled to stay through June, but I'm leaning toward extending my stay for another 6 months ( Read more... ) -
Guanábana
I'm in Colombia, and there's a lot of fruit here. I promise a real update very soon, but for now, here's something silly that occurred to me while I was sitting at lunch.
A slightly ridiculous voice recording that makes me smile more than I'd like to admit.
This entry was originally posted at http://tricia868.dreamwidth.org/44760.html. There ( Read more... ) -
East Hill: A belated writeup
Spent the first weekend of March at the Tech Squares weekend at East Hill Farm. It was pretty fabulous. I managed to get a balance of social/time-to-myself that I hardly ever manage at an event like this, plus I tried new things and learned new things and saw new things, plus all the dancing ( Read more... ) -
It is the week of headache triggers. All over the place.
Most of you have probably heard a bit of the outrage surrounding LJ's most recent style changes. They've finally developed something I hate more than I dislike change: a migraine-triggering basic comment page. Even turning my screen brightness down all the way does not entirely mitigate the problem. The terrible attitude of LJ's higher ups ( Read more... ) -
Update and Awesome Things
I'm getting along alright. I had a stressful few weeks, but a couple days off combined with a visit from Rak helped greatly ( Read more... ) -
Knitting zombie says skeeeeeeeeeins...
Handmade Pay it Forward 2011: I promise to send something handmade to the first 5 people who leave a comment. They must in turn post this and send something they made to the first 5 people who comment on their status. The rules are that it must be handmade by you and it must be sent to your 5 people sometime in 2011.If you don't post, I'm not going ( Read more... ) -
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Damn it, Keila, come home.
Edit: YAY, YAY, YAY! She could NOT, in fact, remember how to get home. She did remember where she'd last seen me & Nick though, and whenever she eventually got tired, she had gone back there. We found her curled up on the ground between the cars in my former boss's driveway, since we'd borrowed flashlights from Devra ( Read more... ) -
2.13449674983
...is a (positive) number that is less than three.
So are 1.345980804927
and 0.4095767098415
and 0.0000000000001
and 2.9999999999999.
Today, I would like to give all of you those numbers because, as typists the world over have long since realized, n, when n < 3, = a heart, and you've all won mine through charm or sincerity or courage or ( Read more... ) -
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I'm in Maryland for Thanksgiving, then I'm meeting my family in Long Island for the weekend. Going to see Harry Potter with our friends there, and in general hanging out with awesome people all week ( Read more... )
