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Thursday, January 18, 2007 Weekend Assignmen >
Thursday, January 18, 2007
January 2007
1/31/07
Wednesday Author Interview: Adrienne Martini
1/31/07
Bright Idea?
1/31/07
Oook Oook Oook
1/31/07
Here, Have Some More Spam
1/31/07
Upgrading the Computer
1/30/07
And Now a Story So Heartwarming That Your Ventricles May Burst Into Flame
1/30/07
Annoy The Stores
1/30/07
Mmmm... Candy Islands
1/30/07
What It's Like to Be a Writer
1/30/07
Snow Delays
1/29/07
Your Monday Photo Shoot: Let There Be Light
1/29/07
Regrettable Teenage Fashion Incidents
1/29/07
Okay, That's Weird...
1/29/07
Who Knows Who in the New Testament
1/29/07
Einstein As You've Never Seen Him Before!
1/28/07
Antarctic Heat
1/28/07
OMG! Tangerines!!
1/27/07
Best of All, the Medal is Made of Steak!
1/27/07
Your Saturday Dorkiness
1/26/07
Your Friday Music
1/26/07
The Two Most Awesome Words That Are Awesomely Awesome in Their Awesomeosity
1/26/07
"Forgetting How to Smoke"
1/26/07
Saving the World in Eight Easy Steps
1/26/07
Are Those Stones in Your Stomach Or Are You Just Glad to See Me?
1/25/07
Weekend Assignment #149: Ill-Advised Teenage Fashions
1/25/07
Masterful Messes
1/25/07
Six Degrees -- Now in Useful Form
1/25/07
OMG Did u Rd tht Nvel?
1/25/07
Go Tyra Banks
1/24/07
The Best Pictures... of Saturn
1/24/07
Your Computer or Your Spouse?
1/24/07
Kids: Really Really Really Don't Do This at Home
1/24/07
Big Moments in Corporate Stupidity
1/24/07
The State of the Union
1/23/07
Popping Your Pictures
1/23/07
The Power of Hot Rocks
1/23/07
The Weirdest Thing You'll See Today, Tuesday Edition
1/23/07
Another Truth Brutally Shot Out From Under Me
1/23/07
The First Set of Oscar Predictions You'll Read Today!
1/22/07
Your Monday Photo Shoot: What a Mess!
1/22/07
Cats Vs. Cheese: The Final Confrontation!
1/22/07
Yet Another Way Not To Help Your Career
1/22/07
Da Baby Before Da Bears
1/22/07
When Beeping Simply Isn't Enough
1/21/07
I'm Alive, Part II
1/21/07
On the Way Home
1/20/07
This I could Have Told You
1/20/07
Incidentally, The Scariest Thing I Saw on the Road Yesterday
1/19/07
Want to Be More Sociable? Up the Voltage
1/19/07
I'm Alive
1/19/07
Drivin', Drivin', Drivin
1/18/07
Shoot Out Your Window!
1/18/07
Weekend Assignment #148: Cats or Cheese?
1/18/07
From the Jungle to the City
1/18/07
Just a Whole Damn Mess of Links
1/18/07
The Travel Insanity Continues
1/17/07
Your Wednesday Author Interview: Tim Pratt
1/17/07
Yes, But How Many Are Living Without Cats?
1/17/07
They Got Capone on Tax Evasion, You Know
1/17/07
Happy Birthday, Mom
1/17/07
Diamonds in the Yard
1/16/07
Ready or Not Here Comes the Drop
1/16/07
How to Become a Zombie
1/16/07
Hey, I Live in Australia, Sort Of
1/16/07
Next They'll Play Darts to See If The Husband Has to Put the Toilet Seat Down
1/16/07
If You Wear A Scarlet Letter, People Will Just Think it's a Sports Team Logo
1/15/07
Your Monday Photo Shoot: Out Your Window, Redux
1/15/07
Warning! Weekend Assignment Results Are In!
1/15/07
Have You Seen Me?
1/15/07
Something to Weird You Out on a Monday Morning
1/15/07
Holidays You Probably Missed
1/14/07
On The Banks of the Muddy Scalzi
1/14/07
More Cool Future Cars
1/13/07
You Are Not Prepared For This Sort of Awesomeness
1/13/07
Start School at 11am?
1/12/07
Your Genuinely Disturbing Music for Friday
1/12/07
National De-lurking Week
1/12/07
Of Course The Average Life Expectancy Back Then was 25, But Never Mind That Now
1/12/07
Your Friday Game
1/12/07
I'd Like to See the Communion Wafer
1/11/07
Another Example That We as a Culture Really Have Too Much Disposable Income
1/11/07
Some Art Appreciation
1/11/07
Weekend Assignment #147: Warning! Warning!
1/11/07
Aaaaie! They're Huge!
1/11/07
The Other Side of the Sky
1/10/07
Your Wednesday Author Interview: Duane Swierczynski
1/10/07
Hey, Wanna See a Comet?
1/10/07
Anxious Pets? Have a Pill
1/10/07
When Fish Commute
1/10/07
Ook Ook Ook
1/9/07
I'm Walking Around With a Towel Under My Chin
1/9/07
My God! George Lucas Was Right!
1/9/07
Ye Olde Blaste Frome the Paste
1/9/07
How the Past Saw the Future
1/9/07
Fiddling With Photos and WooHoo Slideshows
1/8/07
Another for the "Amusing or Disturbing" Pile
1/8/07
Your Monday Photo Shoot: Larger Than Life
1/8/07
Things You Didn't Know You Could Do With a Watermelon
1/8/07
Either Amusing or Disturbing
1/8/07
New York States of Mind
1/7/07
Electric Cars Back Again?
1/7/07
You Are Here (More or Less)
1/6/07
It's God's Engagement Ring
1/6/07
Perfect for Many 10-Year-Old Boys All Over This Great Land of Ours
1/5/07
Quick Check-in
1/5/07
From the "Things You Were Probably Not Expecting To See Today" File
1/5/07
Something Worth Thinking About
1/4/07
Sneak Preview
1/4/07
Rocket Scientist? Cheerleader? Why not both?
1/4/07
Famous People Being Creative -- No, Not That Way
1/4/07
Weekend Assignment #146: I [Insert Personal Feeling Here] New York
1/4/07
First Photos of 2007
1/3/07
200 Calories of a Lot of Stuff
1/3/07
The State of Our Union is... Wordy
1/3/07
Good News for People in Their 12th Year of Researching Their Dissertation
1/3/07
Arrival
1/3/07
Up, Up and Away
1/2/07
2007 is Looking Up!
1/2/07
Speaking of Getting Out of the House More
1/2/07
More Proof, If You Needed It, That I'm Possibly Not Quite Normal
1/2/07
Exiled!
1/2/07
New Year's All Over The World
1/1/07
Your Monday Photo Shoot: First Photos of 2007!
1/1/07
Resolutions for 2007
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Thursday, January 18, 2007
10:20:00 AM EST
Hearing Private Universe

From the Jungle to the City


Here's a fascinating story about a German woman who spent almost all of her childhood and teenage years in the jungles of Indonesia, living with the tribes there, and then left to Europe, where she's lived since. She's written a book about the experience, and in the article she talks about the struggles she's had adapting to the world she's in now after living in the world she was in before. It certainly gives you perspective whenever you might be feeling like a fish out of water somewhere. You have it easy compared to Sabine Kuegler.


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  • #1 Comment from monponsett 
    1/18/07 3:19 PM | Permalink
    "Wow... I get a lot of strange looks... you'd think I'm the only one walking around in a deerskin thong in this part of town or something."