I just found out about a nifty new website, EthnoLinks. (HT David Ker.) This is actually really exciting, a great place to connect with people and resources about all the languages in the world, even mmmBELLYmay. Not much up there yet, but I guess that's where I come in!
I am so thankful for people who have a knack for this kind of thing that help those of us who don't!
When you put hot glue on tinsel it sizzles and melts and emits toxic fumes. That's all I have to say.
I am back. Back in the States, back in the blogosphere, back. I'm going to try to catch up with all the posts I wrote in my head in mmmBELLYmay land. Good to get those out of there and make some room for something else.
If I don't catch up on all of those old posts, all I'll blather on about are the two cutest nieces in the world, who are also exceptionally smart and talented. I've been spending most of my time since I've been back taking pictures of the nieces. And getting specimens to bring to the doctor. But you really don't want me to blog about that.
"Even what may appear as a benign intervention on the surface can have
damning consequences. Say there is a mosquito-net maker in small-town
Africa. Say he employs 10 people who together manufacture 500 nets a
week. Typically, these 10 employees support upward of 15 relatives
each. A Western government-inspired program generously supplies the
affected region with 100,000 free mosquito nets. This promptly puts the
mosquito net manufacturer out of business, and now his 10 employees can
no longer support their 150 dependents. In a couple of years, most of
the donated nets will be torn and useless, but now there is no mosquito
net maker to go to. They'll have to get more aid." Wall Street Journal
Sorry, I haven't been able to get online since Feb. 18th, and even then I was only online for an hour because I left my power cord at home two hours away and now I've been online for almost four hours and I've spent 1/4 of that time updating my antivirus thingy and I've been answering work emails not blogging and now it's almost 11pm and I'm starving but there are no restaurants open this late so I'm going to go eat pretzels and cookies and drink warm water in my hotel room because the internet only really starts working after 8 pm and I don't want to drive in the dark might hit another goat so I have to spend the night in town which isn't so bad because the only room available at the hotel is one with hot water and a/c, which is great when the power is on which it is right now and I sure hope it is all night but if not I have my battery operated fan which I just spent a ridiculous $12 buying D cell batteries for but it's like 95 and humid here so what am I going to do and none of my French speaking friends have helped me with my last post so I'm stuck having my students act out sawing and something that isn't polite to type about because that's the only pair of words I could come up with in my bronchitis fuddled heat melted brain
I think I'll move to Australia.
Actually, this day hasn't been all that bad, my excuses just started sounding like Alexander.
But Australia would still be nice.
A dear friend sent a box of valentine's candy to me. Very
thoughtful!! It's so fun to get a valentine!
Other dear friends are celebrating Valentine's Day by being thoughtful to my
mom and her neighbors. They'd love it if you joined them, and so would
I! Here’s what Sue (sbresett@sbcglobal.net) sent me:
We will be visiting Victory Centre on February 14th at 1:00
PM.
Please feel free to bring Valentines for the residents.
You could make them if you like.
We will be decorating planters and then planting flowering plants.
They will remain with the residents to water and grow for March.
Music: Big Band
Please plan on meeting us there.
29 N Broadway St
Joliet
,
IL
60435
(815) 724-0308
We visit the 2nd Saturday of every month.