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Monthly Archives: August 2006
This morning, you woke up in Africa.
The first of two dry seasons has begun in Cotonou. The ground is no longer cooled by daily rains and that during the day, the sun beats down through humidity that isn’t quite thick enough to cause rain fall. Like during the long dry season, everyone suddenly remembers why there’s a two and [...]
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Je viens!
Everyone at work is telling me I look nice today. The only difference between today and any other day is that I’m wearing dangly earrings, my hair is clipped up instead of being thrown back in a ponytail, and I put on mascara and lipgloss.
Essentially, I took 5 minutes out of my [...]
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I’m a morning person.
Nobody’s job actually depends on showing on time, so as you can imagine, nobody ever does. My favorite part of the day is between 7h30 and 9h30. The first 45 minutes of that is terribly productive. I draft emails (for later feview by a native French speaker), finalize work I did the [...]
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The world’s a stage . . . or something like that.
Stage is going well. The stagiaires are so fucking enthusiastic, sometimes, I just don’t know what to do with them.
Marjie and I were talking the other night, and she pointed out how incredible it is that we’ve come so far. Sometimes post is incredibly frustrating, even for those who are in love with [...]
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On women.
It’s really fucking marvelous to be home.
Seriously.
That said, some things are already driving me nuts. Like men who crow about how supportive they are of women’s equality, then do nothing but interrupt every woman at the table to correct them, or worse, change the subject into a story about how cutely wrong [...]
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I fucking rock.