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I’m a busy little bee

November 15, 2006

Things are crazy over here! I spent yesterday making curry turnovers for the party and today I will be working on spring rolls. We ordered the ham and turkey this morning – we ended up ordering a fresh turkey because the frozen only go up to 6 kg – plus I don’t think we’d have [...]

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We’re moving to…

October 18, 2006

Regensburg!!! Anonymous-M wins. So do you want cookies (if so what kind?) or a silk scarf (if so, square or rectangular and what color scheme?)? You’ll also have to email me your address. Regensburg is in Bayern (Bavaria) at the confluence of the Regen and Donau (Danube) Rivers. It is famous for its almost intact [...]

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Conjunction junction, what’s your function?

October 16, 2006

This post has been updated to include new information and make that information clearer! I just discovered the Schoolhouse Rocks! website. Had fun in Regensburg this weekend, but now comes the hard part. How do I pick a new abode? I need advice, so I thought I’d ask my friends in the Blogosphere. Anyways, here [...]

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Color me curious!

October 11, 2006

I know, I know, I need to stop using so many exclamation points in my titles. But I was just checking my website stats and found that someone at Caltech searched for my name, then made four entries onto my website. It is possible that I know someone at Caltech, so I’m very curious who [...]

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Coup in Thailand

September 20, 2006

The military in Thailand took over Bangkok last night in a bloodless coup, surrounding the government house with tanks and demanding the resignination of the Thai PM Thaksin Sinawatra. He was in New York at the time for the opening of the UN General Assembly. The military has declared today a holiday and thousands of [...]

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Just when I was about to give up on Germany…

September 16, 2006

Okay, I was never really close to “giving up” on Germany, but I was depressed. Then today I took Charlie for a walk and left my middle to upper middle class neighborhood and entered the nearby Plattenbau area. Rainer tells me this area is government housing for the unemployed and there are a lot of [...]

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In The News: Religion, Diet, Racism, and Sport

September 16, 2006

Faith and Reason?During a recent speech at the University of Regensburg, Pope Benedict XVI made a comment that has inflamed the Muslim world. In a discussion about how faith and reason can coexist, he mentions a religious dialogue that took place between the Byzantine emperor Manuel II Paleologus and an educated Persian around 1391: In [...]

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