Mar 23 2007
with limited connectivity and phone-ness. I’ll be back in town on the 30th, but not in ATL until the 1st - I fly into DC first to hang out with bonnie and people during her conference there.
So far it’s hot and none of the fruits I like are in season. I had very tasty noodles and crispy pork and bbq pork so far tho.
Mar 21 2007
…in theory if other things work out this will allow me to turn off comment registration stuffs too…
Mar 19 2007
Broomball was fun, but I think I’m feeling my age a bit - a little more cautious than I used to. It was a smaller and older group too. We got a half-size rink which worked well for about 6 a side, and there were many swollen knees and scraped elbows by the end. Nicole and Nick and Melissa were there in addition to my coworkers and other friends (Amy, Jordan, Jeff) - not that my coworkers aren’t my friends, but you prolly wouldn’t know em. Pictures were taken so hopefully that’ll be up soon-ish. Good times - and we/I should play broomball more often. Perhaps when I get back in the US I can work on a rec league or something…
I am drinking a iced mexican mocha at Allegro, and it is damn fine. I came in from Lynnwood, which is a good 45min bus ride that is on a commuter schedule - you get on it by 8:30am or you’re sunk, and you get back on it by 5:30pm, and no weekend service. Amy’s and Jordan’s place is spiff though.
Mar 17 2007
This is something I figured I’d send out so that people could rtfa first:
I leave Seattle on the 21st of March for Thailand for my grandmother’s funeral
I arrive back in the US (first DC) on the 30th of March
I leave for Mongolia on June 1st.
Mongolians speak Mongolian, which is in the Altaic language group, which is related to Turkic, Siberian, and sometimes Korean and Japonic groups. I’m a bit vague as it gets into linguistic things after that.
I go into 3 months of training in-country, which includes homestay, intesive language and culture training, and stuff. I then get placed somewhere, partially depending on how I do in the training, I believe. So, I only know that what I will be doing will be health-related, but not much more than that. Speculatively, I would hazard that Mongolia + Health could include things like nutrition, rural health care, alcoholism (though I hear this is a taboo topic), and HIV/AIDS, but I’m not sure. Women’s status there is relatively good (compared to my last placement attempt in Turkmenistan), so I am feeling ok about this one.
If you are interested in what other people are doing in Mongolia or pictures already there, here are a few links that I’ve been following on and off: flickr photos from Khovd (West), the flickr person’s blog, and another blog.
Believe I will make this both a blog entry and a page so that people can refer to it easily 
Mar 12 2007
While looking over my typical geekblogs, I found this one: Blogging New Orleans. It has bits about random news, living there post-Katrina, and (one of my favorite parts) progress reports on various restaurant reopenings. It’s under the weblogs, inc brand but I get a good vibe from it.
