Off to Bali!

See you next week!
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Who are you, really?

Aside from my parents house in Connecticut, the longest I’ve lived in one place is the 5 years we lived in Munich, Germany. I’ve also lived in Florence, Italy; Washington DC and Storrs, CT, USA; and finally Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I have no idea where I will be living in future years. I would like [...]

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An astronaut you say?

I’m reading all about differentiation for my Ed Leadership class, and it makes me wonder about when I was in school… Sometimes I wonder if I didn’t have the “proper encouragement” as a young child to go into the technology and science field. You know how you always see stories about young women who are [...]

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On Vanity

I like to think of myself as not “typically” vain (i.e. not vain about my appearance). In all honestly, it’s mostly because I’m quite lazy:

I always choose clothes for comfort over style (in fact, I don’t own a single button-down shirt, because it’s too much trouble to actually button them, and I certainly never tuck [...]

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News of the week

I have seen some interesting news articles this week, so many in fact, I was inspired to post them all here:
First, 16 Probable Planets Found in Milky Way: “NASA scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered what they believe are 16 new planets deep in the Milky Way, leading them to conclude there are [...]

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What Exactly Is President Bush’s Job?

And this is why I love the Daily Show so much…
And, not only is the show entertaining, witty, and intellegent, but a recent report by Indiana Universtiy has found that the Daily Show is just as substantive as more traditional news programs.

Watch
“My job is to try to connect Iraq with the War on Terror”
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Swimming with sharks (and lots of jellyfish)

OK, so truth be told, our weekend on Redang wasn’t all fun and games, relaxation and rest, as I may have lead you to believe in the previous post. In fact, we had some interesting adventures. Mostly revolving around jellyfish and sharks.
It seems that this past weekend was the jellyfish convention on Redang. There were [...]

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My new favorite place (or Paradise Found!)

OK, let me be the first to admit it: I have a lot of “favorite” places: Italy in early summer, Munich at Christmas, New England in the fall, and so on. But, in all these years of living abroad, I’ve always been looking for that one place (aside from Italy – my official home away [...]

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Free… Masons?

Alex and I have always had a fascination with the Freemasons. Maybe this is our chance!

I can see us now, in uniform, at the top of the obelisk in Washington, DC. How exciting!
Speaking of secret societies, I just bought myself a new copy of Foucault’s Pendulum (I’ve read it twice already, but I never seem [...]

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How do you like to get around?

My favorite form of transportation is train travel. I love watching the countryside go by out the window, fresh air blowing through the carriage, and arriving at a foreign destination withOUT jet lag. After spending 5 years in Germany and a semester in Italy during college, I have really grown to love train trips. They [...]

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