OK, today’s post is going to be a long one, I hope you can stick it out! I do think the end is worth it. And today I’m trying to include some videos in my posts. I did a lot of driving yesterday, so I tried to keep today’s journey a little shorter. I started…
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A language-learner’s lament
Last time I tried to learn a language, we used card catalogs in the library, phones had a cord, and Kurt Cobain was alive. To study Spanish almost required taking a class (though I suppose learning by book or cassette tape were options). My classroom learning in the early nineties was mostly worksheets, and lots of…
That time I incinerated chemical weapons for a living* (*Almost)
You work in Antarctica, and you meet all sorts of people with all sorts of crazy jobs. And the craziest of them all, and the one that I actually interviewed for and was offered, was working on Johnston Atoll, incinerating chemical weapons. I’m sorry, what? You might say. Where? All great questions.
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