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"All Your Life Into Two Bags"

(Accurate representation of me during packing) Packing sucks. Seriously. I thought it was difficult trying to move just from one apartment to another. I mean packing everything up into bags, stuffing it into your vehicle, then having to unload it up atleast 3 flights of stairs (the apartment with a view seems like a nice idea till you get there) is a chore, don't get me wrong. But atleast the only thing that makes you anxious is pondering whether everything will fit into your car. Try doing all of that, except you only get two bags of up to 50 lbs (thanks, all airlines ever) & a carry-on. Oh, and a purse. Which honestly, I thought about getting just for the extra room. I was thinking something like this - After shopping prices for a few minutes, I eventually decided it wasn't worth getting stared at by every 5-year old boy & his mother. That, and I think lavender is a better fit for my skin tone. Not that I've done extensive research or an...

"The Tale of Two Cities"

Oscar Wilde once said “Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and then also something about how they end but I can’t be bothered to think about that.” (Nick, a fellow trainee, trying to be studious) I think, anyways. I might not be remembering it quite right. Anyways I hope he was right about that first bit, because we make so many mistakes here the only thing to do is just laugh at it all. Everyday is typically a comedy of errors that even Moe, Curly, and Larry couldn’t conjure. Allow me to provide Exhibit A. About a week ago in our language class (which we have for 6 hours a day Monday through Thursday) we were told to make a handful of questions & ask them to our partner. We’d just been doing vocab on cities or “град”. So I said “Okay I got this, I’ll incorporate the new vocab” and then asked “Do you like big cities or small cities” in Macedonian. Except I didn’t. Making things plural in Macedonian is tricky business. “град” actually means just “city...

"The Quiet Period"

(Older photo of a beautiful church in a town called Kavadarci) What is that you hear? The sound of a newly released blogged post ahead of schedule ?! Surely, your ears must be deceiving you. Or, presuming predilections towards preposterous postulations haven’t poisoned perceptions, perhaps you’ve misidentified the source – for there’s no way on God’s green earth that A Dawggone Good Adventure, written by the brilliant but chronically late author Zach Humrich, could be released ahead of schedule. Indubitably there’s some type of cosmic mistake, a glitch in the matrix or a tear in space-time if you will. Yet, here we are. Today is February 14 th (Valentine’s Day or Single’s Awareness Day, depending on your preference), and I’m posting an update that is decidedly earlier than my “End of February” deadline. Things have been perpetually slow at work, and I haven’t been in the same rut I was my first month & and a half of service, so here we go. I played around with a coupl...

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