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State: District of Columbia
Interests: traveling, reading, writing, journaling, watching Food Network, playing guitar, dreaming, shopping, eating, laughing, eating, laughing, did i mention eating?
Industry: Nonprofit
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Member Since:
6/13/2003
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| hellooooooo out there!
i know, i know, i probably scared all of you by ceasing to blog with a post that's 18 months old talking about how i was sick with amoebic dysentery. Since then, a few updates:
1) I recovered, thanks to Flagyl, the worst medicine on earth.
2) I got engaged.
3) We adopted a street mutt.
4) I got married.
5) I changed jobs (still working with children but no longer "saving them" per se)
6) We moved back to the States.
I guess this is what happens when I don't blog for a long time. In other news, we just got back from an extended weekend in Cabo, where I discovered that sometimes, normal people hire STYLISTS! And now, naturally, I'm obsessed with the idea of finding a stylist in DC. Barring that, perhaps I'll become one in my free time to assist the numerous women in DC who, like me, believe that there must be stylish options for professional women in their 30s that are neither Lindsay Lohan on her 21st birthday, nor a junior senator at her first hearing.
any suggestions?
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| so I'm sick. like really sick. like, i haven't been to work in a week sick. i went to the international health clinic here in town on Wednesday and it appears that I have "an amoeba." Or try 100,000 amoebas all trying to eat out my insides. so the doctor put me on Flagyl, which really should go down as the worst medicine in history...if not for the horrible headaches it gives you, than for the fact that my tongue feels like its been wrapped in tin foil and of course, being the incessant googler that I am... I looked up amoebas and found this article about giant brain-eating amoebas! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21034344/ i should be back among the living in about a week.... but man. I'm never eating salad in this country again. | | |
| Happy New Year! I'm back in Jakarta after almost 3 weeks in California and Texas, visiting family, friends, eating tons of good food, enjoying the weather (although it was a bit freezing for my taste) and driving a car(!) which I haven't done in more than 6 months. I'll admit that when I left Jakarta for California, I was a bit apprehensive -- would I want to come back to the "Big Durian" after a few weeks of blue skies, great food, Peet's coffee and NPR? But now that I'm back... I can't quite explain how happy Jakarta, and Indonesia in general, makes me. The first mutters of Bahasa Indonesia that I heard a grandma saying to her granddaughter at the Taipei airport made my heart jump and when I landed and walked off the plane in Jakarta, the humid (slightly stinky) air was a weirdly welcoming sensation after three weeks of cold drying up my skin. :) I'm beginning to realize that even though Indonesia is perpetually foreign to me... somehow it has become home in the last six months. The unexpected, yet totally expected, traffic that pops up, the busy-ness of the streets where 20 million people live and eek out a living, the street kids who walk up and down the street near my house with their empty burlap bags asking for food and money, the rhythms and sounds of my colleagues talking to each other in a language that I have yet to grasp....somehow this has become home, and I love it. | | |
| Okay, i realize this isn't the kind of posting you want from me..... but I just found this out, so thought I'd pass it along for any of you who are craving a new iPod this Christmas....p.s. you like how the date is 2005, and I'm just finding out about this NOW? sigh. Apple Announces Free iPod Recycling Program at US Retail StoresCustomers Offered 10 Percent Discount on New iPod PurchasesCUPERTINO, California—June 3, 2005—Apple® announced a free recycling program for iPod®, the world’s most popular digital music player. Beginning today, customers can bring iPods they no longer want to any of Apple’s 100 retail stores in the US for free environmentally friendly disposal, and those who drop off an iPod, iPod mini or iPod photo will receive a 10 percent discount on the purchase of a new iPod that day. iPods received for recycling in the US are processed domestically and no hazardous material is shipped overseas. More details of Apple’s worldwide recycling programs are available at apple.com/environment Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning desktop and notebook computers, OS X operating system, and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital music revolution with its iPod portable music players and iTunes online music store. | | |
| Greetings from Aceh! It's Thursday morning here in Indonesia, and it's a beautiful day outside. Not a cloud in the sky - which is really rare during rainy season! I'm working out in our district office for the week. On one side, we're neighbors to a group of families who are still living in temporary baracks after the tsunami because people stole their land, and on the other side, there's a huge flooded rice field, where I watch the kids from the baracks go hunt for frogs every afternoon. One of my favorite things about this office is that you have to take off your shoes to enter the office, which I'm convinced leads to a more relaxed way of working. :) I've been training part of our team all week, and it is definitely a weird thing to stand up in front of everyone with no shoes on. What a departure from life in DC! hahahahaha. Hope all of you are enjoying time with family and friends this Thanksgiving. I, for one, am sleeping in a staff guest house and have been living on tahu goreng (fried tofu) and a personal stash of apples, oranges and carrots for the last few days and am looking forward to being back in Jakarta soon. :) | | |
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