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Şanlıurfa’ya Scenes

Sunday, January 10, 2010

[No proper introduction, as I'm on my way to bed, but here are some things jotted down in my notebook while on the way to Urfa this morning, and while at dinner. Other actual Urfa reflections to follow sometime. Short version: it was an absolutely lovely travel day.]
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On the way to the bus [...]

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Written on our hands

Monday, December 28, 2009

When I was in high school, I had a horrible habit of writing notes to myself on my hands– so much so that sometimes the entire back of my hand would be covered, up onto my fingers and curving down onto my palm. (I had not yet discovered planners, and I didn’t have the [...]

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Another Photo Post

Sunday, December 6, 2009

It’s late at night and I just realized I didn’t blog; have some photos from my trip to Istanbul (November 13th-ish to 16th-ish, if you count travel time). As I’ve been before and only had a weekend, I went up mostly to see one of my favorite professors from college and the staff member [...]

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Yesemek’e

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Tired, as I wound up in Yesemek (a village with a Hittite sculpture quarry, nearish to here) today, with a bunch of silly travel frustrations I don’t feel like recounting. Instead, you get two and a half vignettes of good things.
• (1) On the minibus ride from Antep to İslahiye (the nearest town), we [...]

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