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May 28, 2005
Hey da!
This will be my final entry from Sweden. Although I would like to write a long and heartfelt description of my last time downtown (ahh, Wayne's, I hardly knew ye) this afternoon, my last class (complete with thesis presentations--yawn), and my last game of Texas Hold 'Em with the Swedes next door (I won 105 SEK!!), I just don't have the time.
I would also like to write a little bit about my job search. To make a long story short, I am still waiting to hear about the job in Takoma Park, MD. After harassing them for a week straight, I finally discovered yesterday that the reason the executive director wasn't calling me back was that she was busy getting married this weekend. She'll be back in the office on Wednesday, and should get back to me sometime in the next week or so. The position is still open, and she received my "strategy proposal" for the position, but hasn't had time to look at it yet.
Instead, I have approximately 28 hours to finish packing all of my stuff for D.C., start packing my stuff for Turkey, clean up the kitchen, make a dish for the potluck tomorrow night, finish my laundry, and finish formatting my thesis.
Speaking of the thesis, can I reiterate (if I haven't already) HOW MUCH THE FORMATTING SUCKS? I'm only on page 30 of our 80+ page paper and I'm up to footnote 76. Actually, because the school has decided to go with some stupid "move all the footnotes to endnotes, but don't actually make them endnotes, but instead manually enter brackets around each number and call them references" format, I (and I assume many of my classmates) will be spending many an hour in front of the computer, alternately sobbing and screaming obscenities at the screen. I don't know why they don't just go with the traditional Chicago Manual of Style (which at least takes into consideration the wonderful advances in AUTOMATIC numbering)--but no, BTH has to do it a little differently. Sigh.
Tomorrow will be my last full day in Karlskrona. Sunday morning Roya and I will go to Copenhagen and spent the night there. Then Monday morning I'll hop on the plane to sunny Istanbul. Given that I was dying of the heat today (it reached 70 degrees for the first time this year), I am sure to spontaneously burst into flames when I step off the plane in Turkey.
Since we're heading for some of the rural regions of Turkey, I will be pretty much incommunicado until June 20, when I arrive back home in D.C. I'll be sure and post all my pictures on the blog, so check back in at the end of the month.
In the meantime, may I point you to the 287 posts from this past year? You can relive the fun of my first two weeks in Sweden (when everything that could go wrong did--including dead birds on the balcony, no furniture, etc.), my experience with the graduate program, my adventures in Amsterdam, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland, Norway, Austria, Mexico, Belize, and Honduras--although not in that order, and various other delightful commentary.
And with that, I'm off to bed. There's a full day of formatting tomorrow. See you on the other side!
Comments
It feels like an ETERNITY since you last posted. Where in Turkey are you?
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Posted by: belt at August 24, 2005 01:50 AM
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Posted by: seducing at January 9, 2006 09:02 AM
