Where are you--this very second?
Nov 14th, 2005, 07:37 AM
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I am at my desk at work in Austin, Texas (High of 85 today - what??!). I found this site because I am planning a 2 week backpacking trip to Europe in January, my first trip out of the US! I am thrilled to see all the helpful posters here - I know their advice will save me oodles of trouble.
Nov 15th, 2005, 03:34 PM
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I am at home in lovely Cold Spring, New York across from Westpoint. Usually, I post from work in NYC but we were all told to get off the internet - YIKES!! But at least there is a nice glass of vino involved here.
Nov 16th, 2005, 04:23 PM
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I am in my living room in rainy Reston, Virginia. It will start getting cold tomorrow. I went to Paris in May 2005 and am planning another trip. I read the guidebooks and surf the travel sites all the time. I read the guidebooks on the subway to and from work.
Nov 16th, 2005, 05:20 PM
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I am in my closet. Well more specifically I am in my ex-husband's old closet. But since he is persona non grada around here (to say the least) - I have turned it into a mini-office. On the wall is a puzzle of beach scenes from the 1000 Places to See Before You Die series. To my right are all my travel books. Below my feet are the bills I should be paying. To the left of me are the resumes I should be sending out so I might get a job to pay the bills below so that I could travel to the places on the right. But instead I'm wandering on the computer in front of me.
Nov 17th, 2005, 01:16 PM
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In my office across the street from the state capitol in Madison Wisconsin. It's about 10 degrees out there and there's snow on the ground; the trees are bare. Less than 2 weeks ago I was at a wedding in Seville drinking wine in the sunshine; the trees were laden with oranges. But in Spain there's no ice fishing...
My perennial garden at home is under 2 inches of snow cover--I dug up my calla lily bulbs right after we returned from spain... just in time!
My perennial garden at home is under 2 inches of snow cover--I dug up my calla lily bulbs right after we returned from spain... just in time!
Nov 23rd, 2005, 06:46 AM
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I'm at the local Honda Service while my '86 hatchback (42 mpg, I'll keep it till it won't go anymore) gets its quarterly check-up. Usually, I bring a stack of teacher stuff to work through, but ah-ha, now I have a laptop with T-mobile wireless, so au revoir, productivity. This is super. So what if I return to school Monday farther behind than I left. J.
Nov 24th, 2005, 03:23 PM
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Happy (American) Thanksgiving! I'm in Wichita with family. Delicious dinner and now time for left overs. Weather has been clear and cold.
P.S. Somebody has said this ought to be a Day of Atonement considering what we did to the American Indians who saved the Pilgrims and to other
"tribes" over the years. An empty chair at some tables this Thanksgiving...servicemen in Iraq.
ozarksbill
P.S. Somebody has said this ought to be a Day of Atonement considering what we did to the American Indians who saved the Pilgrims and to other
"tribes" over the years. An empty chair at some tables this Thanksgiving...servicemen in Iraq.
ozarksbill
Nov 24th, 2005, 06:40 PM
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Just winding up Thanksgiving and about to turn off the computer when I read your message, Ozarksbill. My forbears had nothing to do with the American Indians and I imagine many Americans' forbears had nothing to do with them, either.
Unfortunately, our collective pity party and guilt about the land we took from the Indians has resulted in their tacky casinos that dot the landscape now. Do you think that their current descendants who are profiting mightily from the casinos would honestly rather have back their hunting lands? These were people who had not yet invented the wheel in many cases, and they lost in a classic Darwinian struggle.
I am NOT condoning Americans' treatment of the Indians at that time. However, I REFUSE to be held guilty for it.
Unfortunately, our collective pity party and guilt about the land we took from the Indians has resulted in their tacky casinos that dot the landscape now. Do you think that their current descendants who are profiting mightily from the casinos would honestly rather have back their hunting lands? These were people who had not yet invented the wheel in many cases, and they lost in a classic Darwinian struggle.
I am NOT condoning Americans' treatment of the Indians at that time. However, I REFUSE to be held guilty for it.
Nov 27th, 2005, 04:39 AM
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in an internet point in san sebastian, spain, with chilly and drizzly weather ... two weeks until ending this study abroad experience and getting three more weeks to travel through france, switzerland, and italy!
May we who are the privileged have some gratitude and humility along the journey of life.
