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September 09, 2004
read this
i'm off to nica now. and although i don't actually put much interesting stuff to read all that regularly, i wouldn't want to deprive the two or three people a month who actually look at this page from reading something. so, might i make the suggestion that you take a look at mike's book, which you will find here --> www.onrelativity.com. enjoy!
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September 07, 2004
malaria monday
it's back and in full effect. malaria mondays are here once more. i leave for nicaragua a week from today, which means it's time to be on malaria meds again (to prevent a real serious malaria-catching). beginning yesterday and continuing every monday i'm gone and for four mondays after my return, i get to take chloroquine phosphate, which makes my stomach hurt a bit when i take it. even more exciting are the CRAZY dreams they bring me. man alive, i had some strange ones, dreams i would be embarrassed to share with people. and they are hard to get rid of, they stay with me long after i've gotten up and out of bed. i've experienced mondays like this before, during trips to ghana and peru, so it's nothing new i guess. and always exciting. good ol malaria mondays.
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labor day weekend
it seems i've always spent labor day weekend at school or preparing to leave for some foreign country, but not this year. this year, i stayed put, and had a great time.
on friday, after working the first of a bunch of days for the stafford lake festivities (i'll get to that in a minute), i was lucky enough to attend a party at jay's house - a 70s party, nonetheless. it took devon and i forever to get ourselves all primped and ready, and we had a ridiculously fun time in the process (perhaps even more fun was had preparing than at the party itself, though that's debatable). we met up with this crew at the kennedys, then headed up to sebastopol to party. late as we were, we really got the party started with some killer disco music and our fantabulous costumes. it was great.
 the next day, the satur one, was spent setting up tables at stafford lake. this may sound like a real drag, unless of course, you get to drive around in the GEM CAR. man, those electric babies are a real dream. on friday (backtracking a bit here), i rose shotgun as a coworker drove the ol girl from downtown to stafford, and we ran out of juice. we thought we would probably die right there on the windy roads out to stafford, but we didn't. we coasted right into the park, then pushed it to the corp yard for a nice recharge. by the time i got behind the wheel, there were no more problems.
after an exciting labor day at the lake event (the city of novato's annual big shabang), which i spent in a tiny box of a ticket booth selling tickets and directing people onto the shuttle buses, i was pooped... but not pooped enough to forgo driving the gem car around some more, taking down tables and cleaning up the park.
oh man, what a weekend.
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September 04, 2004
the end of august in a (not-so-high-tech) photo nutshell
this picture was taken on my last camp field trip. we went to muir woods, in the smallest bus i've ever been in. i was in the very last seat. i ended up feeling a bit nauseated too.
 these are my uncle's adorable new kittens, thunder and lightening.
 ~ ~ ~  and this is me and molly in yosemite.
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