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Monthly Archives: February 2007
Cooking Lesson
Before disaster struck, we were enjoying our cooking lesson.
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A Commemorative Colts Cake
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } A Commemorative Colts Cake, originally uploaded by Jeremy Wallace.
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Super Bowl in Beijing
Watching the Colts win the Superbowl in our apartment in Beijing. Thanks to TVU Player we were able to follow the action with the CBS feed from the States rather than the delayed and presumably bad Chinese language broadcast on … Continue reading
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Celebrating and Avoiding Groundhog Day
Happy Groundhog Day to everyone. As a graduate student doing fieldwork and writing up my dissertation, I relate far too well to the circumstances of Bill Murray in that movie (although my piano playing has not improved). A week or … Continue reading
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