(Since this is a rant, I’m posting photos of Kyrgyz babies to make us all feel better.) I’ve been busy. My pile of half-finished drafts, articles I’m working on, emails I have to write, and papers to grade is so high that it’s teetering like a drunken Jenga tower. Every day there’s a new pressing …
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no profit without loss
Before arriving back to our apartment, I would have ranked today as one of the coolest days we’ve had in Bishkek by far. …but then we realized the front door was unlocked. We were burglarized. The silver lining to this situation? They left Farrell’s iMac, it must have been too big (everything they took fit …
no love for McLean
Another chapter has been shut: I will never return to McLean, VA, ever again. It was strange being the girl that’s leaving when I was only there for barely two months. One of my bosses never learned how to pronounce my name correctly. Another decided that my exit interview would only consist of handing in …