Walking Through a Life

• Pros & Cons 10 years ago Pro: The heat has finally (finally) broken. It's officially no longer hot.Con: This means that the long winter of struggling to type because my fingers have gone numb has begun.Pro: The lack of heat means that the flies have disappeared and I no longer run the risk of smacking myself in the face...
• way more complicated than it needed to be 10 years ago I was diagnosed with asthma back in February.  I blame Morocco's constant dust storms and the heat, but I blame most things on the heat.  I caught the plague while on vacation (I was in Florence, there was no chance I was calling it anything else), was horribly sick for two weeks and then never...
• Two Years 10 years ago Peace Corps Morocco, September ‘11 YD Staj PST (October, 2011) → COS Conference (September, 2013)Two years in country today. We made it.
• coming clean 10 years ago One of the side effects to the spate of break-ins this spring was that there were a lot people in my house.  Obviously, that's implied in the name of the crime, but not just the thief.  My host family, neighbors and the police also spent a lot of time in my house, which was... messy.  Yeah,...
• *facepalm* 10 years ago I was at the orphanage the other day, like I am most afternoons, when Troll Baby projectile vomited all over me.  It was actually really impressive that a child that small could throw up that much; it was a regular Old Faithful of formula milk.  (Troll Baby, who has only existed in this world for...

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