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Friday, September 3, 2004 |
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Out in the real world (via NYTimes.com): In Russia: "As the battle began hundreds of relatives standing at the security cordon around the school began to scream and sob with despair." "Former President Bill Clinton Had a Heart Attack and Is in a New York Hospital (12:20pm EDT)" "Hurricane Frances Tears Into Bahamas"
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Quiet morning rooms  The obligatory Friday cat picture: Theodore Loudpur Likitung ("Ted") awakens to wash his face on the communal bed.  Breakfast table. Unwashed windows.  Clutter from the night before.  (That's Jan's Nobel Project on the screen there...) It's surely been done before, but I really want to see where people blog from. Post some photos for me? 9:00:17 AM  comment []
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Librocurandera. There really is something to this immersion stuff when it comes to language. By the time we left Horacio and Berta's house last night I was understanding about a third of the conversation and even saying the occasional word. Of course, the interventions of their daughter Lucero, 10, who speaks English as if she were born here, didn't hurt. She gave me a tour of the house. Her bedroom is very pink. I asked her to take a census of the stuffed animals sometime, because I was sure there must be more than a thousand. I spotted a little Macintosh computer in a corner of the laundry room, wasting away. Lucero told me she needed it for homework, but it didn't work anymore. So I struck a deal. If she and her mom would give me crochet lessons (you should have seen the tablecloths and blankets around there! amazing), I'd fix the Mac. So my weekend's work is cut out for me. It's perhaps sick and sad that so few things give me as much pleasure as bringing an ailing, antediluvian Macintosh back to health (I've actually considered going for a license in such work), but I feel no shame. If the machine turns out to be well and truly dead (as in left-in-the-trunk-of-the-car-in-winter-for-the-hard-drive-to-freeze-solid), I can replace it with one from the many that fill my upstairs storeroom. I should take a census of my own, I guess. 7:31:48 AM comment []
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