cows to the coast |
A quick update! I returned to the US from Thailand in May, and passed the summer cavorting about the Midwest with old friends, reacquainting myself with family members, dancing at weddings, mourning a...
Posted by on Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:43:00 GMT |
Questions of Tourism |
I'm trying to blog again. It's a healthy thing for anyone to do whilst cooped up in The Beav. I started this when I was still living in Thailand:It's been a few months since Shannon and I came back fr...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:26:00 GMT |
i love poetry month |
Balanceby Adam Zagajewskitranslated by Clare Cavanagh
I watched the arctic landscape from above and thought of nothing, lovely nothing. I observed white canopies of clouds, vast expanses where no wolf...
Posted by on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:15:00 GMT |
academic plagiarism or friendly cooperation? |
Quick update: Jen and I now have two new roommates, Becky and Shawn, who have been a delight to have around. They moved here from Salt Lake City for a few months to teach and join us in eating buckets...
Posted by on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:07:00 GMT |
Pig heads, comfy beds. |
Last week on Thursday, I drove to school on my motorbike, as I'm now finally renting my own from Nadine and La. These days the mornings are quite chilly, so I usually layer on a few cotton shirts, hik...
Posted by on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:48:00 GMT |
a poem with the word "lentils" in it. |
I don't know. People just seem to be eating lentils lately.
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Apocalypse
by Gerald Stern
Of all sixty of us I am the only one who went to the four corners though...
Posted by on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:44:00 GMT |
Walking Talking Barbie Ajarns. |
One aspect of Thailand that has been very challenging for Jen and I has been Thai people's blunt, vocal attention to physical appearance. Similarly to the West, there is a particular preoccupation in ...
Posted by on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:14:00 GMT |
Street Fighters! |
This was actually posted on November 29. But I have some issues with retentiveness that make me leave stuff on the "diary" setting for months on end until I circle back around to tack on that last sen...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:03:00 GMT |
second Loy Krathong |
Upon the encouragment of a friend in the Peace Corps (and my mom), I'm going to try to make another effort to resurrect the ol' blog. Today is a good day to start, as it is the Loy Krathong festival, ...
Posted by on Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:40:00 GMT |
Gender-bending: Pondering on a Prominent Thai minority. |
I've been back at work for almost three weeks now, teaching 20 hours a week and dividing the rest of my time trying to figure out just what an "English for Sales" curriculum for 14-year-olds should en...
Posted by on Thu, 31 May 2007 23:52:00 GMT |
