But it is not! The Egyptian government has ordered the slaughter of 300,000 pigs to prevent the spread of swine flu. Not that there are any reported cases of swine flu in Egypt, or that there is any link between pigs and the human virus.
I think maybe it is a good […]
Me: Evie, I can’t seem to find any plastic spoons, so I am putting a metal one in with your lunch today. Can you remember to bring it home?
Evie: Yey, Mother Earth!
Nada!
For her fourth grade social studies unit on the Middle East, Anna is studying Iran. For extra credit, she has elected to make a poster representing “Iran, A to Z”. Here is what she, with only minimal adult intervention, has come up with:
Ahmadinijad (Mahmoud)
B’ahais (persecuted minority)
Chador
Desert
Ebadi (Shirin — 2003 Nobel Peace Prize)
Farsi
Gates of […]
Sniff, sniff, snifffffffffle. Cough. Sniffle. Sniff. Errrghh. Sniff. Sniff.
Cough.
Sniff.
Update: acCHOOO.
Is this thing on? I am back in business, more or less — I broke down and bought a new computer today at the PX. Big E would have preferred that I make do with his (sorry, Sweetie) clunky laptop until I had access to better prices and selection in June, but that thing is […]
My computer is really dead this time. No more blogging for the foreseeable future, alas.
This week was the spring concerts for the fourth and fifth grades, as well as the elementary school choir, at CAC. We were, as usual, wildly impressed by the music program: in one concert, Anna sang about 10 (memorized) songs from all over the world; played the recorder and the xylophone; sang a brief […]
Didn’t we just have ant season?
In 1998, seeking alternatives to the monopoly on legal information held by the Official Gazette of Macedonia, I met a young law school professor, Gjorgi Ivanov, whose vision was to make this information more widely available on the Internet. Working together, we set up the Macedonian Legal Resource Center, a Non-Governmental Organization dedicated to […]