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Paperwork

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

About a quarter of the results of trying to convert my old attendance system to my new attendance system:

Headed to bed.

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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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Too tired to write; have a picture.

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Or five, rather, all taken this weekend on the third day of the Bayram holiday. I took a break from visiting friend’s family to head west along the Mediterranean coast, winding up inland of Silifke at a little village called Uzuncaburç. More to come on experiences there and on Bayram generally, but in [...]

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Your daily misinterpretation

Monday, October 26, 2009

Today I found myself talking with a friend about whether costumes are ever worn in Turkish culture– I’m planning a speaking lesson that deals in part with Halloween, and needed background information to use when encouraging my students to draw out comparisons between traditions. She insisted that costumes were extremely rare.
I remembered a [...]

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Look! It’s a visa!

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Departure time for Turkey is rapidly approaching (more on that sometime soon), so I was really relieved that my Turkish visa arrived today. The paperwork took forever to get together– my own fault, though compounded by my lack of a non-passport ID and distance from a FEDEX office– and I’ve been worrying about the [...]

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Late-season garden thoughts

Friday, September 4, 2009

So this summer was one of the first times I was in the right place at the right time with sufficient time (sort of) to have a vegetable garden, and it was exciting, especially at the beginning.
Now that it’s September, how do I feel? Mixed. I mean, to give you some context:

Summer after [...]

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