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Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14372028212886285202noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2419488710730314262.post-82411806938039908852015-03-25T12:59:00.001+01:002015-03-25T13:03:09.424+01:00Bills Lead To Applications<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Maybe not in your world, but in mine they do. Every month I pay my bills...and then I immediately embark on an intense search for side jobs as a precautionary measure. Usually, this leads to nothing. Last month, for example, I sent this very nice email in response to a Craig's list advertisement seeking a formatting editor for a charter flight company's order of operations manual:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Dear all,</span><br />
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I am a formatting fiend. I am in my fourth year of a PhD, and the primary skill set that I have picked up over 11.5 years of post secondary education is the ability to transform hideous, slapped together documents into clean, sparkly works of art in MS Office and Adobe applications--or, if not art per se, at least into industry compliant, hyperlinked, properly TOCed, footnoted, correctly illustrated, thoughtfully indexed things of practical beauty that would thrill even an airplane mechanic's heart. </div>
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In addition, I have experience as a technical and marketing writer in the Broadcast Engineering sector, managing over 600 pages of documentation in Adobe and Word for customers. I currently do editing, formatting and writing work on a contract basis for two universities. I have attached my CV for your consideration, and would be very happy to supply references if you are interested in my profile. You will find some publicly listed references on my LinkedIn profile.</div>
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I charge $35 an hour, and I am fast. </div>
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Best,</div>
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Stephanie</div>
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Unfortunately, someone else was cheaper...and that somebody probably doesn't shop for groceries in Switzerland. But no matter. This month, it's internship applications, and I think we can all agree that Project Management and HR internships, paid in Swiss Francs, beat airplane manual formatting most days.</div>
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Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14372028212886285202noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2419488710730314262.post-4983297298400048412015-03-19T15:52:00.003+01:002015-03-19T15:53:32.894+01:00Church Thoughts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14372028212886285202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2419488710730314262.post-87433716959909472015-03-19T15:36:00.002+01:002015-03-19T15:38:18.905+01:00Spring Collaboration<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My beautiful PhD friends Julia and Susi come up with good ideas. Especially on sunny days. Especially when they work together. Not just when I take sneaky photos of them.</div>
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Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14372028212886285202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2419488710730314262.post-74169562164352583472015-02-09T16:00:00.002+01:002015-02-09T16:00:16.668+01:00#lovethesekids<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Yesterday in the sunday school class I teach we were talking about how Saul became king. Before that happened though, some donkeys wandered off and his dad sent him to look for them. Meanwhile, the leaders in the area were discussing establishing a king. Jeremy wondered what they all would have tweeted had they been blessed with Twitter back then, so the kids recreated the lesson in fake tweets and hashtags at the end of class. Saul tweeted "OMG! What just happened. Lost my donkeys. <span class="s1">#stupidanimals</span> <span class="s1">#gottagolookforthem</span>" and God tweeted back "@Saul - Donkeys aren't stupid <span class="s1">#Imadethose</span>" while the Israelites tweeted "like, totally want a king now! <span class="s1">#toteswannaking</span> <span class="s1">#rightnow</span>" and Samuel shot back "@theIsrealites - NO WAY #toteswannaking <span class="s1">#never</span> <span class="s1">#overmydeadbody</span>." =) I really enjoyed their imaginative take on it! And not one of them has a Twitter account (good, I thought!).</div>
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The littlest ones haven't learned social media genres yet. Their tweets sounded more like pages from easy reader books, complete sentences with sweet, clear intentions: "My donkeys are gone! I have to go find them."</div>
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Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14372028212886285202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2419488710730314262.post-7179115778553729492014-11-27T19:16:00.001+01:002014-11-27T19:18:03.502+01:00Jack Squat<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I'm supposed to be writing an essay, so I'm writing a blog post for a warm-up. This strategy sometimes works for me. Other times I get a blog post and no essay, but hey--a blog post is better than nothing! Speaking of warm-ups, I've started warming up for ski season by attending a Wednesday evening ski-conditioning class. I don't really plan on skiing (hmm...there might be some continuity in my warm-up trends...), but this arrangement makes me feel clever: all the fitness and the hobbling around town moaning for two days without the unpleasantness of flinging myself down a mountain for it. This exercise also increases my efficiency for the rest of the week for all endeavors requiring physical movement. By Thursday evening, I am strategically consolidating any activities that require traversing staircases, and naps have been eliminated to cut needless sit-up motion. By Friday lunch time, getting up from my chair and even trips to the bathroom have been re-allocated to "in case of emergencies only" status. In other words, you should count on me being useless but very easy to locate for the next 30 hours.</div>
Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14372028212886285202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2419488710730314262.post-38913938773562006412014-08-13T17:22:00.000+02:002014-08-13T17:26:52.554+02:001st of August in Thun<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The first of August is Swiss National day, and friends from England were in town for another friend's wedding. A few of us spent two nights in Heiligenschwendi, on Ben's Aunt and Uncle's farm. I've been there a couple times before, but not since 2009 or so. Lots has changed since then--people have moved away, gotten married, had babies, finished degrees, started new jobs, quit those jobs for other jobs. It was good to be back in the same beautiful place again with old friends. </div>
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Now that I know I'm staying in Basel a bit longer, it's time to spruce things up around here. That means planting flowers in my window boxes and rethinking some decorating problems in my room. Sometimes I think I'll start a decorating and lifestyle magazine called <i>Graduate Student Homes. </i>You may think that would be a catalog of what not do, but I think you'd be surprised. There's no better time to decorate than when you have a 250 page paper to write (also: no better time to write a blog!).<br />
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Basically there are two things that drive me slightly nuts in my room. One is all this empty wall space combined with the straight line from my "closet" to my bed. Unfortunately, there is not enough deep space where the clothes rack is to put in a wardrobe; I wouldn't be able to open my door. As it is, my door is already inhibited a bit by my closet. I realize this looks messy, but I haven't thought of any great solutions for the clothes storage part of this situation. It's kinda my only spot. If you have an idea, I'm open to hearing it.<br />
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But the wall space...I've been thinking about what do do about that. Do I want to add some shelves, extending my closet area north and making it look more on purpose? Do I want to hang a couple big pictures? or do a gallery wall? For a long time I wanted to draw the st. John's bridge and the Wettsteinbrücke in pencil and hang them up. I still like that idea, but...that would require drawing them first, and that hasn't happened in the last three years. So then, more recently, I've been thinking about doing some word art on canvas, similar to this one below. I think these things are...ok...but a little overdone. However, they're easy, and one big canvas would fill up a lot of my North Closet area. Then I would add a couple small pictures towards my bed, and voila! But I'm not sure I'd like it, and one reason is that I have a lot of other pictures on other walls in my room. I don't have a lot of quiet wall space at the moment, and I think that's probably important to maintain. But then, I often sit on my bed when I'm in room, and that wall would be behind me anyway, and I would only be bothered about the lack of quiet wall space if I thought about it. See my problem?</div>
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Yesterday I decided to try to paint my mirror, which has been irritating me for a long time as the only black thing in my room. Decided to try a distressed pale green. I've had all evening and all morning to look at it, and while I like the color, I don't think I like it here, in my room, on a mirror. My new plan is to paint it off white. :)</div>
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Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14372028212886285202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2419488710730314262.post-77665618520926774002014-05-03T12:53:00.002+02:002014-05-03T12:55:40.595+02:00Roommate Swiss Birthday Dinner<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Sara and Andreas shut me out of the kitchen this week while they cooked an all-Swiss birthday dinner surprise. They picked <a href="http://en.graubuenden.ch/nature-culture/gastronomy/graubuendens-specialities/recipe-capuns.html" target="_blank">Capuns</a>--a Graubünden specialty that they guessed I'd never had before, served with salad, Graubünden wine, and Meringue dessert. We sat around for an hour, chatting half in English, half in Swiss German, and I learned a lot of new vocabulary...though it happens that it's mostly words I should be careful to not say, or not say in particular contexts. :) </div>
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Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14372028212886285202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2419488710730314262.post-83106802430911751182014-05-03T12:28:00.003+02:002014-05-03T12:57:08.220+02:00I'll never be a homeowner! But I will do this PhD<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This semester I've been teaching a writing class at the university for the second time. I designed the course for our African Studies MA students, and there are a couple of them in there. But there are also people from other programs who want to improve their writing. This year I have an older, more advanced group that includes an oral surgeon (I imagine her running up the street to class from the hospital, straight from surgery each week), a speech therapist, a former geriatric nurse, and a couple economists. Half the class already have PhDs or master degrees in other subjects. I find it flattering that all these interesting, accomplished people have come to my class all semester and bothered writing the the things I ask them to. I try to not think about it too much lest it become intimidating.<br />
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Except for one, the class is all non-Swiss. Several of them have been writing recently about what it feels like to be foreign--the feeling that even when you're well-connected in Basel, have a job and friends and things are going well, there are still situations when something feels slightly out of sync on the inside. They're writing about re-learning who we are in a different culture, the geography of the city and the geography of our own hearts, and one of the younger ones is writing about making choices that seem to be taking her off the normal progression for a woman her age. She's doing what interests her, but seems concerned about where it's taking her. I'm doing stuff that interests me, but I'm also concerned about where it's taking me. Or rather, why it hasn't taken me back to Oregon yet.</div>
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I wonder sometimes if so much questioning what we're doing and where we belong is just a normal thing that most people experience, or if it is condensed in the experience of living abroad. I notice that when my friends in the US are thinking about making a change in job or house, "What continent should I live on?" and "What countries should I send applications to?" aren't questions they're generally asking. Those have been my main questions for years, it feels like. We're probably all a little lost, but we're lost in different registers.</div>
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When I was visiting Gregg before Christmas we went to a comedy club with a line-up of comedians around our age. Almost all of them had jokes about not feeling like adults, not feeling like their lives are pulled together yet and having no real game plan to accomplish that. One of them said any time he clumsily spills something or knocks something off a table, before it hits the ground he has re-visited every failure of adulthood and it invariably ends with "...and I'll never be a homeowner." :) I could relate, although for me it's set off by things like misplacing jewelry, ruining silk shirts, forgetting to return my library books, or painting my nails. As I was procrastinating this week, searching the internet for the courage to read a stack of my students' essays, I watched a Buzzfeed video called "12 signs being ladylike isn't your forte." One of those signs is that "trying to paint your nails makes you wonder why anyone trusts you with anything," and the woman has painted not just her nail but the entire end of her finger red. </div>
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I think about this sometimes when I go in to teach my writing class and I see my name and my class details blinking on the wall in the main university building, indicating we're up. This announcement in English stands out among the German class announcements. Ahh, it makes me feel so...grown up and far away. Except when I'm slightly underprepared for class. Then it's all: have they seen my nails? Do they know I've hardly written anything lately? What am I doing here? Should I even still live in Switzerland? If I keep this foreign thing up, I'm never going to be a homeowner. </div>
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And that's my long way of telling you that the University of Basel Forschungsfonds committee decided to give me money to finish my PhD, and I will thus remain employed (yay!), and in Basel (hmmm....), until around the middle of next year. </div>
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Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14372028212886285202noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2419488710730314262.post-87388266366740491442014-05-01T19:34:00.002+02:002014-05-01T21:20:42.774+02:00Atlas. No Shrugging allowed.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Alright, I blame Facebook. I've already posted photos from my trip to Morocco there, so I'm considerably less motivated to say much about it here. But, since I know a few of you don't have facebook accounts...here's a few pictures from Morocco. There were waterfalls, green fields and sunlit valleys, quiet mountains with herds of sheep and lady shepherds leading them up the hillsides to water. There were market squares, including a pink one, and a lot of donkeys on the path. There were children on the paths, back and forth to classes, and--while we were there--art easels on the paths. Or off the paths, perched on the edges of the bright green fields. Then men I was painting with seemed particularly interested in the <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; text-align: left;">igherms--the granary/civic buildings in the valley. Igherms are...ok. They're big and brown and dusty. These in the areas where we were have been restored recently by the Atlas Cultural Foundation, and I saw a postcard with before and after photos. The difference impressed me. But given the choice between flowering fruit trees, sheep out to pasture, the gentle quiet of rural neighbors in the late afternoon watering their plants and laughing together, or a big brown dirt building...I'm gonna want to draw the former. Or at least sit and soak it in, and that's what I liked most about </span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Zawiya Ahansal in </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; text-align: left;">Morocco.</span></span></div>
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Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14372028212886285202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2419488710730314262.post-43934542234531080872014-01-23T14:33:00.000+01:002014-01-23T14:34:23.409+01:00Leaps and bounds<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">When I was at Gregg's before Christmas I applied to a new career mentoring program for female PhD students at the university of Basel. It's called "Antelope" after the graceful but watch-out-she's-got-horns ungulates that are distinguished primarily in that they are "</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">neither </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" title="Cattle"><span style="color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;">cattle</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheep" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" title="Sheep"><span style="color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;">sheep</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_buffalo" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" title="Water buffalo"><span style="color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;">buffal<wbr></wbr>o</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bison" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" title="Bison"><span style="color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;">bison</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, nor </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" title="Goat"><span style="color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;">goats</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">," according to Wikipedia. Flattering! Wikipedia also notes, in regards to domesticity, that "Domestication...requires certain traits...that antelope do not typically display." That part might be a good description for most female PhD students.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">But I digress. This week I heard that I've been selected for the program, which "</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">helps female doctoral students systematically plan their careers [and] prepares participants for future leadership and management tasks, [and] is exclusive, concise and free of charge." Hurray for being a girl! As my brothers like to point out, a major side benefit to being a girl is free stuff. In this case, free advice, lunches, and a career mentor who is a senior executive at Novartis. I don't know who it is yet, but I hope it's someone sensible. </span></div>
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This is all a big improvement over Tuesday, even considering the comparison to a goat.</div>
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Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14372028212886285202noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2419488710730314262.post-1639881680724947932014-01-21T15:09:00.000+01:002014-01-22T15:34:08.307+01:00She knows there's no success like failure, and failure's no success at all<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I had an interview today. Woke up grumpier than a wet hen--literally before I was out of bed I was fightin' mad at the world and a few men too-- which is no frame of mind for an interview. It got worse. I realized my best interview britches were too long for all my shoes...I was walking around on my cuffs and looked six years old. Hardly suitable for an interview! Also, the (only) problem with never wearing socks or nylons is it turned out I either didn't have any nylons, or they are stuffed in a dark corner of my attic...I think its the latter. This contributed to me looking six. So I went to the store to buy safety pins to pin up my pants, and nylons to look grown up, and I came out of the store with five pairs of nylons, two pairs of shoes, lunch and no safety pins. Safety pins are on the third floor. Shoes are on the second floor, right next to the escalator...so you can imagine what happened. I was on the escalator, going up, thinking, "right, so I'll get the safety pins, then back down for stockings, and then--wait, Italian-made suede heels on sale?! That will save me the 4.- CHF in safety pins!" </div>
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Are these shoes stunning or what? They didn't match my shirt at all, but I decided they were so fabulous no one would notice.<br />
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And I don't think they did. Turns out me and my peculiar american visa status are a heck of a challenge for HR in Switzerland. Even when they like me, and it seemed they did, the chances of a legal hire are slim...grr. So, I had m&ms for dinner. Also, I decided to go to Scotland with Valda in two weeks to see Laura my friend and Laura valda's sister, because if you can't get a job, you might as well go dance a jig in Glasgow with some Lauras.<br />
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Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14372028212886285202noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2419488710730314262.post-91200505884183378642013-12-05T15:05:00.000+01:002013-12-05T15:05:14.804+01:00Snake dream<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I've been thinking about taking this painting workshop for a year. It's in Morocco. It's with an artist I've never met, but if I could corner just one pastelist out there and ask him or her all my pressing questions about how to draw haze, how to better nuance those annoying perky colors I always seem to use, how to draw faster but improve the depth, how to fix my rocks on the face of the mountains that I've been stuck on for months--Well. It would be Aaron Schuerr, and that's an educated opinion based on many years of reading the <i>Pastel Journal</i>. I've been thinking about this workshop as PhD motivation ("If I promise my supervisor that I'll write x number of drafts of chapters <i>a, b,</i> and <i>c </i>before I go paint, then I'll need--nei, DESERVE--a drawing break!"). I've been thinking about the workshop as the natural combination of two of my interests (Africa and Drawing! what could say Stephanie more?!). I've been thinking a workshop in Morocco is easier to get to than a similar workshop with the same dude in Montana.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I've had lots of thoughts about this workshop, even in my sleep. The other night I dreamed I was almost bitten by a poisonous snake while camping in the Atlas mountains. Luckily, in my dream, one of my braver and cleverer friends was in the sleeping bag next to mine, and while I was busy going, "ooh, look at the stars!!" he was busy saving me from deadly snakes. I managed to go back to sleep by telling myself there are certainly no snakes high up in the mountains. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The next day when I told that friend about my dream, he said, "I held a snake once in the Atlas mountains!" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Still. I'm going, I'm taking my sleeping bag, and I'm hopeful. I'm think I'm going to get better at drawing rocky mountain faces and hazy mornings, and I hope that I sleep next to someone brave! </span></div>
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Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14372028212886285202noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2419488710730314262.post-27731630817870871592013-11-30T14:15:00.001+01:002013-11-30T14:43:55.128+01:00liebe Gott mir danked dir<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mid-November Canadian Dave and I co-hosted Thanksgiving again this year for a group of our overlapping friends and colleagues. We plan it in between their Thanksgiving and ours, and though Dave was the only Canadian present, we tipped our hats to our neighbors to the north and their earlier harvest season. Eighteen people filled my dining room and living room with cheer. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">I wish I had a picture of the whole house at mid-meal or just after, when everyone was chatting with their neighbor and acclaiming Rebekkah's sweet potato pone, making new friends and telling funny stories with old ones. And the men were talking about Dodge Vipers. A house full of <i>that </i>is a recipe for a happy Steph. Also, I think the purple candles are happy, even if Dave did think they were tacky and hillbilly and tried to hide them by the printer before dinner so I couldn't put them out.</span></div>
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I planted flowers for the event.</div>
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Basel looked honest in November colors and overcast skies.</div>
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Dave conjured up his redneck roots and turkey roasting skills by wearing plaid flannel.</div>
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I ordered an 8 Kilo turkey from the turkey farm, via the grocery store butcher. But when I went to pick him up on Friday night, the butcher looked nervous and joked that the bird "had eaten very well." It was 11 kilos. Dave and I learned that an 11 kilo turkey is the biggest bird that will fit in my oven. And by 'fit,' I mean that's the biggest bird that can be crammed in, inches from the bottom and top, and there's no room for a pan to catch the drips, and you might have a smoked-filled kitchen at the halfway cooked point. Two weeks later, I'm still cleaning my oven.</div>
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Apero in the entry way. One of the few things I don't love about hosting parties in our apartment is that people tend to congregate right in that spot instead of spreading through the house. I've tried scattering the food around the house. I've tried adding chairs to the living room. I'm stumped. I think I'm going to give up and just add lights to that corner for parties, so at least they aren't standing in the dark.</div>
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Dave was concerned people wouldn't know that the pears were decorations and not for eating.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">This week for real thanksgiving, like Dave with his flannel, I also noted the holiday with an apparel choice: this Bambi sweater grandma knitted for my aunt more tha<span style="font-family: inherit;">n 30 years ago. <span style="text-align: left;">Grandma made the sweater for Aunt Cathy when she was a kid. Cathy probably got tired of it and then it moped around Grandma's house for a while, drinking martinis and asking why life has no meaning anymore and what's-the-matter-with-kids-</span><wbr style="text-align: left;"></wbr><span style="text-align: left;">these-days. Then, Grandma got sick of listening to it whine when I was, oh, around 15. So she suggested the sweater get out there again! get to know some new people! So it came to my house. I liked it, and it fit, but I felt it was a little too...hmm..homeschooled, shall we say, and I wouldn't wear it in public. But the last couple seasons, there's </span><a href="http://fashion.onblog.at/bilder/2012/09/styling-tip-animal-sweater-2.jpg" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank">this</a><span style="text-align: left;"> and </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmCbfMBbYSfA41cQS8Bi5-PEYNWrJfWoFtzsFNfPsP2pqXa67IHPo3x5kGkBgB9OD-qllW6WBf_IbKgZQ9qapLb-kdvCr7iw3yvl84dJxS_MWQpxJ8WeKXocV5tERaC3JkjuIsGBjrgdVg/s1600/animal+motif+sweaters2.jpg" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank">this</a><span style="text-align: left;">, not to mention </span><a href="http://thefashionmedley.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/animal-001.jpg" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank">this</a><span style="text-align: left;">. Grandma and the sweater were just ahead of their times, and now when we go out together, the sweater gets compliments </span><i style="text-align: left;">every time, </i><span style="text-align: left;">and nobody seems to be thinking "there goes that homeschooler" or "there goes that 1970s Bambi has-been with a martini problem." </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">I like that I have a tangible pieces of my family's generosity, creativity and hospitality here in my Swiss home. Tea pot from Gregg, rug and quilts and pie recipes from mom, sweaters from grandma. This week at some points I felt like I still don't quite fit here, even after 6 years. I can't say nearly as much as I'd like in Swiss German. I'm stuck listening, especially in groups, when people make more jokes and I'm not familiar with everyone's dialects, and I'm not always quite sure I got it all. Then I worry that people will decide I'm no fun and not interesting and won't include me anymore If I don't hurry up and start talking. But then there's the trouble of divergent interests. I'd rather make stuff than go dancing, would rather draw the mountains than slide down them on death sticks. I have enough plates to serve 18 people dinner and dessert without washing anything in between, and I do it. That's not normal here. But I think it's me...and I'm thankful for the plates (lots of hand-me-downs!) that let me invite so many people over, and the recipes (not afraid of my kitchen) and the artsy crafty skills my family gave me. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">And I've decided I'm not talking in English for the rest of the year to anyone who can speak Swiss German better than I can, and instead of spending money on ski lessons, I'm 90% decided I'll go take a painting workshop in rural Morocco in the new year. Normal schnormal, right? Be who you are. But do try to speak the language, cuz, geez. We don't need to feed that unflattering stereotype about Americans.</span></div>
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This week I finished the quilt for Amelie. It's called "Spring Flight Over Grindelwald." I'm trying to think of a place and a way to photograph it outside without it getting dirty...<br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's National Novel Writing Month again, folks, and this year, I've decided to observe the tradition by doing two things: first, I'm marking the start of NaNoWriMo by surprising you with a blog post (suprise!! are you surprised?! I think you are). And second, by trying to write 50,000 words of my PhD dissertation Draft 0 this month. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why would I try to wring 50,000 words out of 30 days, you ask? well. Mostly because my 'to do' list looks too much like this PhD comic, and also because my contract deadline is in 5 months, so it seems like a good idea to get a first draft out ASAP so I can get on to the real work of rereading, rethinking, rewriting, and possibly re-tramping around Zambia if I decide it would help.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last week one of our colleagues finished his dissertation defense. We had champagne and snacks for him (finishing a phd is fun!) and I found out that you're not allowed to use the letters after your name until you publish the darn thing. WHAT?! nobody told me that part. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(The champagne is clearly intended to distract from this unpleasantness). </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This new info probably explains why Pierrick and I had an offer from a publisher in the first 6 months of our contract. They weren't excited about our work, turns out...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In other sort of phd-y news, research trips to Burkina Faso and Tansania may be in my future. :) More on that when and if it materializes, but both are looking promising. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few weekends ago, we had an "Africanists in Motion" PhD hiking retreat to Franches-Montagnes in Canton Jura. Pierrick planned the hike--or the "workshop" as he called it, which "aim[ed]<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> to (re)consider the notion of wood pasture by addressing methodological (and ethical) challenges related to its fragile balance: should we cut or plant more trees? Should we hire more cows for sustaining the pastures? Aren’t horses more appropriated? Any theoretical or empirical contributions to these crucial issues are welcome." :) </span></span></div>
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Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14372028212886285202noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2419488710730314262.post-62656143536303386482013-09-12T19:01:00.001+02:002013-11-01T19:29:07.751+01:00Whiskers and baby quilts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This morning I drank my coffee out on my balcony, and I listened to the quiet. One of my favorite things about being home now that I live in the city is that I can hear crickets clearly every night and humming birds and blue jays in the morning. And no busses. And no trams. Just beautiful country quiet. And cats!</div>
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Mom and I made a baby quilt top on Monday. It's for Ed, unless they unexpectedly have a boy, and then it's for one of my other 2 expecting friends, whoever first blesses the world with a girl who would appreciate the florals and vintage novelty airplane bunny print. You probably can't tell from this little picture of the quilt top, but this quilt is loosely based on an a spring flight over Grindelwald--that time of year when the peaks are still snowy white rows out to the horizon, but the valleys are bright green fields and flowers and baby chickens. Ed's a pilot. I think he'll appreciate the airplane bunnies. </div>
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Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14372028212886285202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2419488710730314262.post-51224524681766349812013-05-13T11:43:00.000+02:002013-05-13T11:43:02.691+02:00Places to go, People to see<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I make a lot of lists for a lot of reasons, but I ran across this old packing list recently and it made me laugh. Malaria medication, whisky, snow boots, and a semi-formal dress on the same list? That's my odd schedule for sure.</div>
Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14372028212886285202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2419488710730314262.post-3116151747788849352013-05-01T11:58:00.003+02:002013-05-01T11:59:08.033+02:00For Love of Wednesday Mornings Off<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It's May day, so no mandatory going to work today for me! There is the practical going to work I still might have to do for class prep, and the voluntary going to work for PhD scheming sessions with other similarly employed individuals, but let's just focus on how nice it is to sleep in mid-week, on a spring morning!<br />
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Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14372028212886285202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2419488710730314262.post-66970862638552575142013-04-30T11:04:00.002+02:002013-04-30T11:04:53.081+02:00My favorite thing!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It's a wonder I'm such a cat lover when I'm so much like a dog. This morning I had coffee in bed<i>--My favorite thing! </i>Then on my way out, I recognized a friend's handwriting on the letter in my mail box. A letter! and no kidding, completely unbidden, I thought to myself: <i>My favorite thing!</i></div>
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Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14372028212886285202noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2419488710730314262.post-23336164971086257542013-03-12T23:15:00.001+01:002013-03-12T23:15:10.000+01:00Attacked by lions<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Met two darling, rough and tough, baby lions today. Was attacked. Was bit. Lived to tell about it, and also to tell you that I have no interest in getting this close to any lion older than 6 months or bigger than these.</div>
Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14372028212886285202noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2419488710730314262.post-24568294540338123982013-02-14T16:54:00.001+01:002013-02-14T17:03:52.948+01:00Kudu in the headlights<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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