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      • Foreign Service retrospective
        01/29/05
        Okay, so it's a little early in my career for a retrospective, right? But I was on my way to the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) yesterday, and I was struck by a little bit of nostalgia, so I thought I'd share:
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        On my first day with the State Department, I was supposed to s

      • Departure date
        01/08/05
        We'll be leaving the U.S. this January 31. We're both getting pretty excited to (finally!) be leaving; but it also reminds us that there's so much to do before we can leave: Packing, paperwork, planning, plus plain preparation.

      • Christmas
        01/06/05
        I managed to get a week off for Christmas, so the two of us went home to Montana. We saw snow, which was fabulous. In fact, we went skiing at Red Lodge (aka "Rock Dodge"), where the ski patrol were using hockey sticks to flick rocks off the runs. In spite of how it sounds, though, it was r

  • 2004