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  • Hemmingway, Chiam Potok and most Russian authors:
    These are my "go-to" books.
  • Azar Nafisi: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

    Azar Nafisi: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
    This is the one I last finished.... If you're interested in the Middle East/Islamic cultures, women's rights and/or the power of literature, you'd probably be a fan. I'm into all three of those, so, yeah, I liked it.

  • Jasper Fforde: The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel

    Jasper Fforde: The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel
    My sister is a big fan, so I've decided to check it out. A little more fantastical than my usual fare, but...pretty interesting. I am supplementing it with another book about a childhood spent in Africa so as not to feel too shallow. Not that fun books are "shallow." I just gravitate toward realistic (and, for some reason, usually dark) stuff. So this is different for me. But different might be ok. We'll see....

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March 30, 2008

The baby always wins

Me_sadie My good friend since 8th grade, E, had a baby.  Huzzah!  I got to see this little Sadie character while I was back in the Portland area after returning from my trip to the Middle East.  We didn't really know what to make of each other, but I didn't drop her and she didn't barf on me, so...I feel like we had some sort of an understanding.  : )

In other news, I've been back in SoCal, in my apartment and at work for a week now.  Getting into the groove again, and all is going well.  I was wishing I had my camera on Friday night 'cause there could have been some good mini golf pictures happening, but, alas, I guess for now you'll have to be satisfied with this baby shot.  : )  Hopefully, though, I'll get the photos from my latest trip up in an album before too long - it might take a little while (as there are hundreds!), but...I'm working on it.  (And by the way, if you haven't noticed, the albums are listed over here on the left sidebar.  Thailand is the most recent one.)

So, that's kind of it for now.  My sister says that I ought to do more writing on this here blog, and she's probably right (since it is kinda what I like to do and I can feel my writing muscles atrophying as we speak), but, really...how you can compete with a baby picture?  I think I'll just have to concede this one to Sadie and go work on my trip picts.  Stay tuned for an album maybe/hopefully soon....

Have a great week, all!

         

Comments

Sadie looks cute. I'm still waiting for a real, honest-to-goodness, you'd turn this in to Professor Hills, post. You can do it.

I believe in you.

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Backstory

  • *WHERE*
    Pasadena, California
  • *WHO*
    Well, I'm Andrea, and this is my blog. Other people's names will pop up now and then, too, but I'll try to explain those as I go.
  • *WHAT*
    I'm still working for the same organization with which I went to China...except now I'm in southern California, assisting OTHER teachers in China (and elsewhere in Asia).
  • *WHEN*
    After graduating college in the summer of 2001, I moved to China and taught English for a year. Then I returned to the States - first to the Northwest, then to Florida - until returning to China (Tibet) in the spring of 2005. After teaching there for three months, I returned to Florida (where I lived a total of almost two years)...then to the Northwest...then back to China in February 2006. I stayed there until July 2007. Then, after a couple of months with my family in the Northwest, I moved to California (September 2007)...which brings us to now. Simple, yeah?
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