General update
It's been a while since I've updated. I've got lots of little stuff to comment on.
First off, I finished my masters degree, so I now have a masters of education. My average grade in the program was around about a 99.5%. This is not me bragging. It is me showing how absurdly simple the program was. But regardless, I have the degree, which will hopefully help me get a job.
When it finished, I started a krav maga course. For those of you who have no clue what that is, it's self defense. It's not really a martial art because it's not really an art, more just close combat training. I ended up liking it a lot more than expected, and it's become one of the things I really look forward to about going home.
Sadly, while home, I left my cat with a student who I didn't know. In the past, I'd left the cat with another student who was a friend of one of my students, and she was great. But she moved to Holland, and I wasn't nearly as comfortable with the other student I found. Unfortunately, I didn't really have a choice. Well, when I came back and called to pick up the cat, she told me the cat had escaped when she had kittens. I told her that was pretty surprising because the cat was a boy. (We'd had him fixed, which is kind of unheard of around here outside the expat community, so that's how she missed the tell-tale signs of gender.) Anyhow, she then told me he broke a window to get out. I think it's a lot more likely that they opened the window and he went out, but regardless, the cat is gone.
In happier news, I got a story published with Kzine. It'll be out soon. Also, The Colored Lens (the magazine I edit) is looking for another slush reader. If you, or anyone you know, is interested, the info is at www.thecoloredlens.com . Now that I'm finished with the masters, hopefully I'll have more time to write.
I just finished watching White Collar. I don't particularly recommend it as stellar, but the relationship between Peter (FBI agent) and Neal (the criminal informant who works for him on a release program) is wonderfully handled.
Afghanistan is kind of holding its breath to see what happens with the elections. They're supposed to be announced next week, but we'll see. Things are about the same as they have been lately on the security front, but it's definitely tense. My own world has tightened even more. We're pretty much limited to staying on campus 24/7 minus the occasional exciting trip to the grocery store. Before I left, they'd at least let us out of the cars to go pick out fruit on the side of the road. Now we can't even do that. We stay in the locked car and the (unarmed) guard goes and buys it and brings it back.
I'll try to do more posting in the future.
First off, I finished my masters degree, so I now have a masters of education. My average grade in the program was around about a 99.5%. This is not me bragging. It is me showing how absurdly simple the program was. But regardless, I have the degree, which will hopefully help me get a job.
When it finished, I started a krav maga course. For those of you who have no clue what that is, it's self defense. It's not really a martial art because it's not really an art, more just close combat training. I ended up liking it a lot more than expected, and it's become one of the things I really look forward to about going home.
Sadly, while home, I left my cat with a student who I didn't know. In the past, I'd left the cat with another student who was a friend of one of my students, and she was great. But she moved to Holland, and I wasn't nearly as comfortable with the other student I found. Unfortunately, I didn't really have a choice. Well, when I came back and called to pick up the cat, she told me the cat had escaped when she had kittens. I told her that was pretty surprising because the cat was a boy. (We'd had him fixed, which is kind of unheard of around here outside the expat community, so that's how she missed the tell-tale signs of gender.) Anyhow, she then told me he broke a window to get out. I think it's a lot more likely that they opened the window and he went out, but regardless, the cat is gone.
In happier news, I got a story published with Kzine. It'll be out soon. Also, The Colored Lens (the magazine I edit) is looking for another slush reader. If you, or anyone you know, is interested, the info is at www.thecoloredlens.com . Now that I'm finished with the masters, hopefully I'll have more time to write.
I just finished watching White Collar. I don't particularly recommend it as stellar, but the relationship between Peter (FBI agent) and Neal (the criminal informant who works for him on a release program) is wonderfully handled.
Afghanistan is kind of holding its breath to see what happens with the elections. They're supposed to be announced next week, but we'll see. Things are about the same as they have been lately on the security front, but it's definitely tense. My own world has tightened even more. We're pretty much limited to staying on campus 24/7 minus the occasional exciting trip to the grocery store. Before I left, they'd at least let us out of the cars to go pick out fruit on the side of the road. Now we can't even do that. We stay in the locked car and the (unarmed) guard goes and buys it and brings it back.
I'll try to do more posting in the future.