August 30, 2008
I started French lessons this week, only two years behind schedule. When I got this new permanent position at my current place of employment, one of the conditions was that I be willing to learn French with the goal of becoming fluently bilingual, and they were willing to help: I could take some time off [...]
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July 24, 2008
Let me tell you about my mom and the choices she’s made, careerwise, as best as I know. My father is my educational inspiration, and really he deserves his own entry but for some background I’ll share his part of the story: He finished highschool in Nigeria but could not afford to go to University [...]
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April 28, 2008
Smart folk that you are, you all came up with some good reasons why I’m finally thinking that maybe nine years is enough of my life to give to the place. Ves thinks that I would be mortified if someone I knew from a past life (highschool, the grocery store I used to work at, [...]
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April 25, 2008
I was reading over my (written) journal from 2001/2002 and I was struck by the things that are still the same from that time, things that I definitely thought would be different. I still live at home, I still don’t have my full driver’s license (though I’m so much closer to getting it today than [...]
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