January 3, 2008 – 9:58 pm
*Warning* excessive vacation post
Ten days of vacation: check.
Six flights: check.
Being arms-length from an orangutan: check.
Five hour jungle trek on Borneo: check.
A couple hours on a bamboo raft: check.
Ten hour bus ride: check.
Christmas karaoke: check.
Good company: check
That was my holiday, briefly. I’ve got some decent photos that I’ll put up somewhere soon.
November 16, 2007 – 9:07 am
I’m sitting in the hotel lobby, tapping into intermittent wi-fi, and having a cappuncino. I get a text message from a colleague that she just looked in her colleagues copy of the schedule for the upcoming national tefl conference. She, myself, and another guy all submitted proposals for the conference in late September and [...]
August 20, 2007 – 11:12 pm
Since The Jakarta Post doesn’t archive its posts, I’m including a summary of a recent article.
Virginity test idea withdrawn
A controversial proposal to conduct virginity tests on female high school students in Indramayu regency, West Java, has been dropped following strong objections from students, parents and activists.
The rest of the article goes on to say that [...]
August 20, 2007 – 12:08 pm
Yesterday, I completed the last of my summer fun–a sprint triathlon in Petoskey, MI. The results:
500m swim: 13:02, pace: 2:37/100m
T1: 4:44 (this included a 400-500m run from the water to transition area)
20k bike: 40:18, 18.5mph (this had some big hills)
T2: 0:53
5 mile run (~8k): 41:53, 8:23 min/mile
Overall: 1:40:48, 2d in my age group (9min [...]
Last year, I trained for a sprint triathlon in my entry to the sport. Three weeks ago, I completed my first Olympic-length triathlon (see the Triathlon page for my training regime). Yesterday, I ran the same sprint tri that started me off. This year was teeth-chattering cold in the water, wet on [...]