Sunday, August 22, 2004
- Mystery of the Moving Tractor: Set Nancy Drew loose at the Schnoebelen farm! Sometime last week, my dad noticed that the tractor wasn't how he left it...living in the safe Iowa countryside, he always left the keys in the ignition. Until now. Seems someone wanted to take the tractor--to steal or just for a joyride, it's unclear. But they didn't manage to get the front bucket thing up, so their plans were foiled. [I STILL have never driven a tractor! My dad agreed to let me last time I was home, but somehow the time slipped away. Then, if ever I should want to steal a tractor, at least I'd know how!]
by Samuel, age 13, Washington
I'm a sap: At the opening ceremony of the Social Welfare Conference last week, a choir of disabled children sang. I felt my eyes get a little moist. Then, at the end of a week on a site visit to a school, a choir of children sang for us. Again, it made me a little teary-eyed. What in the world is it about kids and singing? Do I imagine myself at that age? Do I think of all the promise in each of those little lives? Of their innocence?
- Lazy: It's not that I can't cook anything really, it's that I'm lazy. When it's so cheap to eat out and I'd be the only one eating if I cooked anyway, I prefer to eat out. But sometimes, like today, if I have no other reason to leave the house, I wait till I'm about to pass out from having not eaten to go find food. It's especially bad on Sundays, when the restaurant on the 2nd floor by the pool is closed. Luckily, I have EasyMac to save me, until supplies run out. I brought it all the way from Iowa, to accommodate my laziness. I know my sister lived on the stuff in college. All you have to do is put the noodles in water, microwave for 3 1/2 minutes, and stir in the cheese mix. You don't have to mess with the butter and milk of normal Macaroni! It's the ultimate.
- To do: I've made a list of things to accomplish before I leave Malaysia in about two months--it's THREE pages long, typed! People to contact and then interview, books to be retrieved at various libraries and read, organizations to be visited, and at least 6 locations around Malaysia, plus one in Singapore, that I would ideally like to visit to do interviews. And this is just work-related To Dos. Aiyo. I've got at least three blogs I want to write: Interfaith organizations; transsexuals in Malaysia....I know there was another. Where did I write it down to remember?!
