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Are you experienced?

November 7, 2006

From Dawn’s blog, the point of this is to highlight in bold the things you have done… 01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink02. Swam with wild dolphins (my brother did this on his honeymoon and said swimming with sea lions was more fun)03. Climbed a mountain04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive05. [...]

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Giant spiders and Leipzig

September 10, 2006

I had a Crocodile Hunter inspired dream last night that I was wrestling giant spiders into boxes and then transporting them to a new location for release. Horrifying! That would be about the worst job I could possibly imagine. Today we’re off to Leipzig, where Rainer will be meeting with some professors in the Institute [...]

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Say it ain’t so, Joe!

September 4, 2006

Well, Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, was killed today by a stingray. Little known fact: I ALMOST applied for the second season of Survivor (the one where they killed a pig and one guy fell in the fire). I thought – a PhD student in Statistics at Duke is a shoe in! I actually had [...]

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Alphabetic Fun, aka From A to Zed, aka I am the Alpha and the Omega

July 10, 2006

[A is for age:] 31[B is for booze of choice:] Southern Comfort, but not straight[C is for career:] None at the moment. Statistics?[D is for your dog's name:] Charlie the gas factory[E is for essential items you use everyday] My rapidly aging computer, whose right speaker has stopped working[F is for favorite song at the [...]

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Eeewww… How pervy!

July 1, 2006

I just took a look at my blog statistics and someone who visited my site found it through a search for “grandma@grandpa sex” on msn.com and my blog comes up in sixth place on this search as: An American Expat in DeutschlandPerhaps it could be young people in a city (“Sex and the City”-esque) or [...]

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I’m such an underacheiver

April 1, 2005

I just finished The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason (although that is not what the “whoa” is for, but it is a good book that I recommend). For some strange reason, I decided to read through their acknowledgements at the end of the book (something I RARELY do), when I came [...]

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Who elected W?

November 4, 2004

According to exit polls: Vote by race and gender……….Bush………Kerry …..White Men (36%)……………..62%………..37% …..White Women (41%)………….55%………..44% …..Non-White Men (10%)………..30%………..67% …..Non-White Women (12%)…….24%………..75%Vote by Age………………………Bush………Kerry …..18-29 (17%)……………………45%………..54% …..30-44 (29%)……………………53%………..46% …..45-59 (30%)……………………51%………..48% …..60+ (24%)……………………..54%………..46% Vote by Religion…………………Bush………Kerry …..Protestant (54%)……………..59%…………40% …..Catholic (27%)………………..52%…………47% …..Jewish (3%)…………………..25%…………74% …..Other (7%)…………………….23%………..74% …..None (10%)……………………31%………..67% Most Important Issue……………Bush………Kerry …..Taxes (5%)…………………….57%…………43% …..Education (4%)………………..26%…………73% …..Iraq (15%)………………………26%…………73% …..Terrorism (19%)……………….86%………..14% [...]

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