Monthly Archives: August 2007

Tales from the Crypt

8/31/2007 – 3:28 pm

I was flipping channels last night while studying and stumbled across the original Creepshow movie on Monsters HD. Fine, it’s a classic that I remember well from when I was a kid, it was on cable all the time, and I probably wasn’t supposed to be watching it. Following it was Creepshow 2 [...]

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What’s Outside Your Bedroom Window? & Blame the Victim

8/30/2007 – 11:41 am

Third post for the day but who’s counting?
This is what’s going on outside our house. That’s my red car in the drive:

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Don’t you just love academia? The obvious answer is no.
The grade for my summer project posted Monday but I didn’t see my MA degree posted so, being a diligent and [...]

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El Nuevo Superclásico?

8/30/2007 – 9:30 am

Well, I thought I would watch the SuperLiga final between Mexican champions Pachuca and the hapless LA Galaxy to see if anything interesting happened before the floodgates opened. It turned out to be an absolutely fantastic game, even in the Galaxy eventually lost in PKs. Remarkably (inexcusably?) all Landon Donovan needed to do was [...]

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Guatemala Photos Posted!

8/30/2007 – 8:44 am

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In a fit of insomnia I finished writing captions for all of our Guatemala photos. You can see them by clicking here.
Feel free to comment on the pictures in this post, if you like.

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Playing Catch Up

8/29/2007 – 12:04 pm

I’ve watched the Premier League Highlights show covering the first three weekends of the English season in order to catch up in goings-on. So far, an interesting beginning to the season. Some random observations:
* Living in America, you’re fairly insulated from the British press. I say this because Tottenham must have [...]

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Things Learned From My Spanish Immersion Experience

8/27/2007 – 3:35 pm

We arrived home safely from Guatemala after a couple days of long travel. We left class at 12:15 pm last Friday and took a 5 hour bus ride from Xela back to Guatemala City. Saturday morning was a comedy of errors of sorts. We asked the front desk of our hotel for [...]

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Last Post – Guatemala

8/24/2007 – 9:54 pm

Short post. We’ve made it back to Guatemala City unscathed and said goodbye to all our new friends in Xela. Thanks to the perils to modern travel, instead of getting in to Chicago at 5:00 pm tomorrow it looks like we’re shooting to closer to half-past seven. Are delays worse when you’re [...]

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Tell Me A Story – Guatemala

8/21/2007 – 9:58 pm

The days are speeding by. Only three more days in Guatemala before we head back to shiny ol’ U.S. of A. And hopefully no flooding in our basement as we understand the Midwest has been socked by rain.
I switched teachers this week due to another student returning. This was fine by me [...]

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The Grippe – Guatemala

8/18/2007 – 7:57 pm

One week down and all continues to go well. As I said to Amy today, it is almost impossible to tell whether we are getting better (and equally impossible as finding a computer that allows apostrophes for contractions…so another contraction-less post). She is convinced her Spanish is actually declining but I am not [...]

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¡Futbolista! – Guatemala

8/16/2007 – 3:49 pm

Last night was a pretty interesting experience. Our school goes from 8:00 am (sharp) to 1:00 (less sharp, depending on how the conversation’s going—the teachers here are all young and extremely enthusiastic) with a 30-minute break. During the break, I casually asked my teacher about where I might find a pick-up game of [...]

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