Blue Eyes

I watched an amazing documentary on CBC last night featuring an anti-racism seminar by Jane Elliot. Her methods are pretty extreme. She divides the group of volunteers into people with brown eyes and people with blue eyes, and then proceeds to treat the Blue Eyes like...

Slava

I don’t know what’s up with the weird dreams lately. And usually I don’t remember dreams, but these have been especially vivid. Last night I dreamed that I was in my dad’s backyard, searching for tsunami victims. I found the backpack belonging...

Scattered

I’m feeling a bit overrun in the last couple of days. There has been plenty of work to do with my trip upcoming, and I’m constantly paranoid that I’m forgetting something. In fact, I have been forgetting stuff. I had to make several trips home today...

Flying then swimming

I had a disturbingly vivid dream last night. I dreamed that I was flying home from Chicago, and the plane was coming in for a landing in Toronto, flying over Lake Ontario. Yes, I realize this is not geographically accurate. 😛 Looking out the window, I noticed the...

Kingdomality

Jen made me do one of those silly personality tests to discover my medieval personality type. Apparently I’m a “Benevolent Ruler.” Your distinct personality, The Benevolent Ruler might be found in most of the thriving kingdoms of the time. You are...

Phuket cleanup

I’ve been spending a lot of this morning looking for information on how Thailand is recovering from the Tsunami. I have been impressed with how quickly they are putting things back to normal. Most of the local websites I’ve found have had been quite...