tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64680282011-04-21T13:07:35.122-05:00Bohunk blogging at its best. Learning the value of language one word at a time. Come on over the beer is cheap.Jednohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688893383927874948noreply@blogger.comBlogger3561100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6468028.post-1143403959879230232006-03-26T14:11:00.000-06:002006-03-26T14:12:39.890-06:00

~Today's Nameday-Emanuel~Enough said. Prayers would be apprecaited.

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~Today's Nameday-Leona~I will assume most people think this blog is dead. At best it is a comatose corpse of a site that is hanging on by the ventilator that is its address and the various links that people still seem to have to it.This is not a nod that I will ever revive this site fully again. I will post things that I have worked on from time to time on here. If you don't like Russian lit, go

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~Today's Nameday-Květoslava~I have a flight in about 4 hours. In the last 90 minutes we have been dumped with 4, wait make that 5 inches of new snow. It's beautiful. Washington, DC apparently is under weather advisory beginning at 9. What do you think my chances are of getting home tonight?

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~Today's Nameday-Mikuláš~Read this:"Naturally, the Catholicism and Protestantism of the two systems have nothing to do with the cultural and religious positions of their users. One may wonder whether, as time goes by, the use of one system rather than another leads to profound inner changes. Can you use DOS and be a Vande supporter? And more: Would Celine have written using Word, WordPerfect, or

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~Today's Nameday-Klement~I'm packed and ready to go. Happy Thanksgiving folks! Heading down to Notre Dame to see the South Bend Zeps after class today. Indiana here I come

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~Today's Nameday-Cecílie~Sunday night, after a whirlwind weekend of meeting an unexpected out-of-town guest, I sat down to what I thought was going to be night of language study and paper writing. As I was downloading my Czech syllabus, I remembered that this week was the start of "New Language Teaching" classes in my pedagogy class.To the uninformed, my "Techaing Slavic Language" class (a

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~Today's Nameday-Nikola~Check this out: http://www.strindbergandhelium.com/. The last one is the best....misery....

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~Today's Nameday-Felix~Evidence that you are on the cusp of being too old to trick or treat yourself: while out, you meet your peers out with their children.

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~Today's Nameday-Štěpánka~Someone asked me if I read Maureen Dowd's article. I told them, I try not to read what she writes, as she pisses me off.So I'm reading it now. Highlight sentence: "I didn't fit in with the brazen new world of hard-charging feminists. I was more of a fun-loving (if chaste) type who would decades later come to life in Sarah Jessica Parker's Carrie Bradshaw." Does that say

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~Today's Nameday-Tadeáš~I've got my computer!!! Unfortunately, I lost music that I hadn't backed up before I took it in. I was a little disappointed to hear "I could have asked for a data transfer." But it was free and who's complaining. Most of my stuff was backed up. But Yeah!!

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~Today's Nameday-Tadeáš~Loose one for him.

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~Today's Nameday-Šarlota~I'm no sure about overcast Sunday afternoons, achilles, but how about when you are suppose to be doing workstudy on an overcast Thursaday morning.Here's the deal:1. Go into your archives.2. Find your 23rd post.3. Post the fifth sentence (or closest to it).4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions.5. Tag five other people to do the same

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~Today's Nameday-Nina~So my baby died this weekend, and I was hestitant about taking it downtown to get it looked at only because I was worried about hearing, "well, you're looking at [insert any cost here] and as old as your machine is it's just not worth fixing it." I make week by week adjustments of my budget, but one thing that has no potential of being in there is the cost of a new computer.

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~Today's Nameday-Hedvika~My laptop's monitor periodically dies. Those cycles are way too frequent. Please not now.So my thought's on Remizov will wait.

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~Today's Nameday-Štefan~Tonight will be the first night of the year when the one common television will be a battleground. A show-down between play-off watching baseball fans and "Desperate Housewives" watchers has all the hints of turning ugly tonight. Lines have been drawn. Sides have been rallied. Capitains have been picked.At least we can expect entertainment.

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~Today's Nameday-Věra~No I'm not talking about fall (which came in without warning or hearlding of any sort.) I have just finished this book. And not really that book either, as it was supposedly an unedited version. Sadly, the man is greatly out of print, despite Amazon's claim, "Rozanov's Fallen Leaves is the greatest Russian prose work of the 20th century, and its only rivals in contemporary

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~Today's Nameday- Věra~It's a small world.(1 of the 4 other graduate students in my program): John Marie St. Francis is why I decided to move to the Czech Republic. Honestly, I decided to go when I heard he had planned to go to Poland to teach English.

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~Today's Nameday-Jeroným~As far as I have been able to glean, no American University does late start like UofC. But finally, I can say I have been to all of my classes. There are surprises around every corner of life, and why should a first year of graduate school be any different. I am in what is officially the smallest program at the school, hence one rarely meets his colleagues. So despite the

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~Today's Nameday-Jeroným~My grandparents aren't selling the house at the shore!!! And if this isn't Providence answering some frantic prayer's of grandchildren: it turns out the man who wanted the property came on some hard times and isn't in the position to buy it. Meaning more ice cream truck summers to come. So if you think you'll pass through luxious southern New Jersey, I can hook you up!

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~Today's Nameday-Andrea~After fifteen minutes of checking every classroom in the wrong building, I did find my first class. An interesting thing, the internet is a wonderful tool, but only if you use it and update it properly.

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~Today's Nameday-Zlata~Being new to the create-your-schedule from a course list, I am in a quandary about classes and the ones I should be taking. Being in the smallest department in the school gives one the false sense that certain classes will be available at times different from other classes. This is very much not the case. It appears to be an unwritten rule that the Slavic Faculty does not

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~Today's Nameday-Jaromír~Today was "vaccination day" at the UofC Student Care Center.Tetanuss-booster party all around. You don't know your fellow students well until you have witnessed them muttering words of confidence to themselves about the prospect of being stuck by needles. The signs had warned to be prepared to wait an hour of your day, so I had decided to get their about 20 minutes

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~Today's Nameday-Darina~Today at our department orientation the head of the department had these words of fearful hope, "For those of you that are paying your own way [me], there is an unwritten rule about the second year. IF you make it through the first year and IF the department still wants you, you will get at least your tuition taken care of."Is that a light, I see? What are these ifs? My

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~Today's Nameday-Zita~After damning UofC's work study system to hell, I have been forced to eat my curses as I am now awaiting my registration to be processed so I can begin working for the man. The man is paying me to do research, write a bibliograph and label microfilm for one of the assistant professors in my department. The interview made me not want to hire me and I've never used microfilm,

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~Today's Nameday-Kryštof~I have locked myself out of my room twice today while in the bathroom. Stupid windy city.

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~Today's Nameday-Kryštof~I met the guitar player from three doors down. In real life he doesn't have a voice like StMc. It's just the singing voice. He does, however, read Livy and Tacitus. Of this we greatly approve. I talked politics with an openly gay man to whom I bluntly told that I was a "social conservative." He spent the next five minutes asking me if we could still be friends. There are

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~Today's Nameday-Kryštof~I have a new school e-mail account. Actually I have had it for a few months. But in the first weeks of September it really became more active. Then it stopped. Or so I thought. What actually happened was I had some unread mail from some stuff to which I subscribe. The account preferences were such that the page on which the last piece of unread mail is the one that you

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~Today's Nameday-Kryštof~I live in a Graduate dormitory and I suite with a girl studying social work. Our rooms are set up with one door that exits into the hallway and then three doors after that door for each of our rooms respectively and the bathroom. The door to the hallway is always open. When I get up in the morning it's open; even after I came back from Mass and the rest of the dorm seems

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~Today's Nameday-Naděžda~One of the oldest cities in the Czech Republic, Kutna Hora was once a famous silver mining town where not only was the metal mined but where it was coined. It was home to the first mint in the region around the 13th century. It is highlighted in guide books because of the Ossuary, a chapel completely decoratedwitht human bones. The story goes that a monk was doing some

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~Today's Nameday-Naděžda~I was off to the grocery store this evening when I happened upon an orange Lotus. Some local Hyde Parkers had noticed it before I did and were checking it out from all angles."You gotta sell drugs to have a car like that.""Naw, man, you gotta kill somebody to drive this, 'cuz it's orange.""Ya, you gotta kill somebody important.""And look at it! It's orange. I mean dat

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~Today's Nameday-Ludmila~Studying languages in terms of their building blocks is a gateway into the minds of people. It is fascinating how the same word in various languages is put together with unrelated roots, but on review the logic is clear. Some words are the same: "to elucidate" is made of the same blocks in Russian. "выяснять" "вы" meaning out or out of; "ясн" meaning clear and the rest of

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~Today's Nameday-Ludmila~The guy three doors down whose voice sounds blood-curdlingly like that of a certain TACer (StMc) who oscillates between very controlled and whiny renditions from "The Bends" and Bruce Springsteen. You wouldn't believe how this place echoes.

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~Today's Nameday-Jolana~Having culture shock in Chicago made me miss good ole BoHo.

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~Today's Nameday-Jolana~Yesterday, I got my new cell phone. I got Cingular because they offer free mobile to mobile calling and all but 2 of my family members have the aforementioned mobile service provider. This morning my mother called. I have been in Chicago barely 60 hours and this is her 5th call. For the last six years, I have been accustomed to speaking to my mother once a week, but as she

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~Today's Nameday-Jolana~From the last weekend at the Jersey shore:The brother was not surprised. Even the appearance of the mother was no cause for surprise, although alarm is a different story. ("You'll be hearing about this for the next twenty years.") The general consensus is that my grandmother can't keep a secret. I decided to leave early Saturday morning rather than late Friday night and

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~Today's Nameday-Marie~I've been trying to apply for a job as a tutor in Chicago. The lady at the tutoring agency today asked some fairly obvious questions:"Do you have a local number?""...uh not yet...actually I'm not local yet."But my favorite:"What was the highest math course you took in college?""I went to a Great Books school, so it's hard..""Oh, you didn't take math?""No, it's not that,

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~Today's Nameday-Mariana~The last days of my current job has me collecting and screening resumes for people who might take my job on a more permanent basis.This is what monster.com has to say about resumes:Too many people make the mistake of thinking that a resume's purpose is to getthem a job. Actually, resumes open and close doors. Their main purpose is tomake an employer interested enough to

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~Today's Nameday-Mariana~One of my students sent me pictures from our last day of class. They are up on the dead corpse that is my photoblog.

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~Today's Nameday-Mariana~I wrote a nice synopsis of Labor Day weekend last night and then one of the brothers wrecked the home's precarious network last night. I liked it. I won't try and rewrite it form memory. If you're interested you'll have to wait.

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~Today's Nameday-Pavlína~Shhh! It's a secret. I'm heading out to visit the grandparents' at the Jersey Shore this weekend. Why a secret? Because brother the first is bringing down his new girlfriend. He told me, "I have these nightmares of getting there and mom or some other member of the immediate family being there." he, he, he.

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~Today's Nameday-Vladěna~Guess who's a dad?

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~Today's Nameday-Vladěna~These days, my temp work has found me the personal assistant to the CEO of Sales and Marketing for one of the local millwork companies. The man is business savvy, but computers and all things technilogical are not his strong point. This became crystal clear on day 2 at the job. To acces Outlook, one has to take a moment and log into the system. It is a seperate step in

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The e-mail read as follows: I would just like to say that this is why we should always be careful when choosing what to wear, as you never know what someone can find on the internet these days...

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~Today's Nameday-Luděk~Last night I got a call from the West Point brother telling me I need to check my e-mail immediately. HA! No can do, because the father is still making the internet "better," in the house and you can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs. The internet is still down.On my way to work, the father called and said the kid had sent out an e-mail with a picture from when I

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~Today's Nameday-Radim~I woke up this morning at 5:45. I mistakenly thought my clock read 6:45 which put me on a shower-brush teeth-find clothes-get dressed rigamarole at break neck-speed. I needed to be out the door by 7:10. Then I remmebered that the dogs needed food, water, medication and to relieve themselves. Could this be done in 3 minutes? Remember, kids, I still think it's 7:05, depite

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~Today's Nameday-Bartoloměj~Last week I was home alone. This week, there's dad. Every summer since I started working, there's been a week when mom and the kids go to the shore, and dad and I are forced to fend for ourselves. This means eating out whenever possible. It's not that neither dad nor I cook. We both can make a mean something or other. True enough, dad's specialty involves a can of tuna

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~Today's Nameday-Ludvík~I had dinner with a high school classmate of mine last night. She and her roommate went to a small Catholic College on the opposite seaboard I did. Theses topics and titles came up.CCA1: What did you write your thesis on?CCA2: Why woman shouldn't be allowed to vote.

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~Today's Nameday-Helena~Douglas MacArther's mother, while he attended West Point, rented a room a stones throw away from the campus so that she could be close to her son. She is reported to have hid cookies for him in the cannons at the famed Trophy Point, the beautiful spot overlooking the Hudson on that said campus. My own mother used to terrorize my brother that she would do the same thing

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The week has been "full" of the most boring jobs to date that have come from the temp service. First, there was the company peddling steel building frames. There aren't a lot of walk-in customers for that line of work and in two days I answered the phone about 12 times. The one task was taking hand messages, since apparently the office was a little sceptical about getting the technologically

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What can you know about the day when you wake up and realize that you have worn your contacts to bed?

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"Doctors turned off Torres' life support early Wednesday after she received the final sacrament of the Roman Catholic Church. The delivery went smoothly and the baby ``is doing well,'' Justin Torres had said earlier in in an e-mail to The Associated Press.May her sacrifice never be forgotten.

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Something tells me this might turn out to be an interesting story...

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Susan Torres, the brain-dead mother on life-support gave birth to a very small, but apparently healthy baby girl, Susan Anne Catherine Torres this morning. Continued prayers for this family is needed and for the health of the premature little one.Updates can be found here.

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The problem of aliens working here illegally is a problem that seems to draw out a lot of people's passions these days. Locally, the DC metro area and beyond is no exception. "(Washington, DC / Herndon, VA) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, said today that it has provided legal notice to the Town of Herndon Planning Commission

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Although it has been over a month since I have returned to the states, I still get waves of culture shock. The other day I was in a mall with my three siblings who live at home. We were buyign various and sundry birthday gifts and this required pretty much walking from one end of the mall to the other. There are malls in Prague, and they have the same stores or the same kind of stores so the

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Images finally appearing on the sidebar!

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My latest supervisor at work was a temp's dream come true. She backed you up and took little shit from the rest of the office and cleared you from taking it as well. A box goes missing? She barks that it's on the "goofball's" desk. A person calls more than twice? "Don't answer the phone!" Every time she gets off the phone with her daughter, she sticks a cigarette in her mouth, marches to the door

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If you will be in the DC metro area tomorrow night and are in a conundrum for something to do, let me recommend the "Swish for Susan Torres" basketball game.Update: The poster isn't loading on my sight and I don't know if that's just my server and the mac not liking each other. So, yes, Manassas at Osbourne Park High school at 7 tomorrow night. Be there. It's $10 a ticket, and 5 for students.

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Well, it's official. Come some time in March I will be an aunt. Of course, technically, I'm an aunt now, except the sister's progeny has no name. I did know this a few weeks ago, but the sister wasn't about to let a mere 7 positive home pregnancy tests sway her into thinking she was pregnant. The morning sickness uped her suspicions, but not until today could she say with certainty that she is

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Maybe. Although don't get your hopes up. I've been trying to remember that one works in order to live and not vice versa. Some days are more successful than other. Other than garnering experience as a temporary receptionist, DC comuterer and chaffuer extrodinaire, I can also force pills down dogs' throats and encourage 15 year-olds to read and write better. Some days I remember to study Russian.

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~Today's Nameday-Ladislav~I got this e-mail from one of my students today. Hello Kate.I had succesfully passed examination in Ustí nad Labem and I am accepted.I must thank you for your help, without it wouldn´t managed me to do it.I'm so thrilled. When he started he really did only talk to the table, and 60 minutes never felt so long. Not that we made a lot of progress on interview skills, but he

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~Today's Nameday-Adriana~My first week home has come to an end. Not only have I been living under my parents' roof for one whole week, I have also been searching for the infamous means of making money that is commonly referred to as the summer job. Now no summer job can match the ice cream truck adventures at the Jersey shore, but I was hoping to find one where at least where I get paid regularly

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~Today's Nameday-Ivan~According to the NYTimes, Philly high schools are beginnig to require a course in "African-American" History.School officials here say the course carries huge benefits for all students and offers a perspective on American history that has been largely absent from most contemporary teaching guides. "You cannot understand American history without understanding the

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~Today's Nameday-ZdeÀka~It's hard to imagine I have been out of school for two years. I think I have a school schedule ingrained in my head as normal. 9 months one type of work. The othere 3 months are to wallow in my idleness. They're for unintrusive summer jobs. They're for heat and bodily discomfort. They're for a steady cash in-flow that makes the other nine months bearable. They're for

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~Today's Nameday-Květa~A situation has been in the news this last week. Most people are more news savvy than I am, so I'm probabally Johnny-come-lately to any such discussion. But I know this man. He was in my first Latin class while I was in jr. high and he was a sophmore in high school. I never met his wife, but I have known his mom and his siblings quite for some time.Money is hard to come by,

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~Today's Nameday-Adolf~I made it state side! I even made it from JFK to one of NYC's best humble abodes in Queens which thanks to this person, this one and this one is where I am staying until my dad comes to drag me and my shite off to Virginia.To ward off jet lag, my lovely hosts and I stayed up until the sun rose. I still haven't a clue about the time and my blog is still set on continental

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~Today's Nameday-Stanislav~Classes are ending left and right. It's really hard to have a last class in the kindergartens, because a five-year-old has a very different idea of what one means by "last class." But to ease the pain I get gifts. And some are real winners.I have acquired to date:-two elephant figurines.-10 ceramic heart penadants on leater cords.-a picture book of Prague.-a health

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~Today's Nameday-Stanislav~Czechs have more proverbs about the weather than I think is normal. I'm sure they could find one for every day of the year. Most likely it's about how the weather will be rainy, cold or in some way uncomfortable. They refer to the days in the year by the name which falls on the calendar that date. So yesterday is non-technically referred to as "Medard." And they say

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~Today's Nameday-Medard~Anniversaries are a strange kettle of fish. A natural affinity seems to exist for remembering the anniversary of one's own birth. For whatever reason, a twelve month period seems appropriate to measure one human's passage through time. There are other anniversaries as well, of course; some are happy and some seem merely to mark our temporal distance from tragic events.But

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~Today's Nameday-Iveta/Slavoj~So I have a little job lined up (maybe) for the first four weeks I get back. This is of course wonderful. Any money will help pay the bills. But it's the same thing I have done all year. This doesn't excite me. At all. I don't think I like my job very much, if only because my conversations seem to focus on students rattling off their hobbies and the present perfect.

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~Today's Nameday-Iveta/Slavoj~It's cold and rainy today. I mean cold as in "I should have worn gloves" cold.I locked myself out of my apartment this morning. I also didn't have keys to get in my classroom at the elementary school.Yesterday, I gave myself blisters with shoes that are 2 years old! So today I just gave up and wore my converse and fleece socks with a skirt. My students don't see my

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~Today's Nameday-Norbert~The same students of last week's EU conversation brought up communism today. It is generally understood or quickly learned that the young American/British English teacher does not bring up this topic, although all of us want to know. It's something that if you ask this generation about it can blow up in your face. Some people don't want to remind themselves what they did

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~Today's Nameday-Norbert~In case I haven't mentioned this clearly, I am leaving the Czech Republic in about 10 days with an unspecified date of return. (AKA, I'm not coming back to teach here next year, but rather I am moving to Chicago to be taught; it's OK voices screw up the best of my students...)Of those ten days, six are working days. Or to state it practically, I am at the service of

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~Today's Nameday-Dobroslav~Think forty museums and galleries for free around the city between the hours of 19-01.00 and that's the second annual Prague Museum night.Maybe a better idea on paper than in reality as many things were timed and that wasn't published very well. However, a good opportunity to see things that otherwise I wouldn't have seen. Such as Prague Castle's new "History of Prague

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~Todya's Nameday-Jarmil~What is this world coming to? We have a phone IN THE OFFICE!...On second thought, what is this world coming to that this is new and exciting?

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~Today's Nameday-Laura~New photos up at the photoblog.Also down at the bottom of my links is one for the a petition to "greatify" John Paul II, so if you're not busy and are interested check it out.

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~Today's Nameday-Laura~Farewells will always be difficult. It is natural both to long for permanence and enjoy the society of others. But in this world flux reigns supreme and thus even our societies fall apart. Is this to remind us that Christ is to be served in every man? That the societies to which we are naturally drawn need first to be refined before they are worthy to be enjoyed and we in

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~Today's Nameday-Laura~You know that happy feeling you get when you unexpectedly find those couple bucks in the pocket of your jeans you are about to wash.Well, I found the equivalent of almost $30 in my sweatshirt last night. It being the end of the month, I did a little dance of glee.

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~Today's Nameday-Ferdinand~

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~Today's Nameday-Ferdinand~The Frenchies rejected the constitution. Good for them, even if they did it in the name of whiny socialism.I asked two of my students about the eeeyu today and the prospect of a constitution. "I'm opposed to 380 pages of constitution," said one. "It's suppose to be unintelligible," said the second, "how are people suppose to form an opinion?"This touched off the subject

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~Today's Nameday-Filip~It is quite common knowledge that marjuana for personal use is legal in this country. (Common knowledge for people who live here.) But the language is a little vague. An amount that shows "intention to sell" is the other phrase, and that much dope is a no-no. It turns out that a person can have up to twenty joints worth on them without it falling into that latter category.

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~Today's Nameday-Vladimir~Really, boys, the rest is skippable.I did something rare today: I shaved my legs. Now I want to know if there is some strange disease that causes one to knick themselves every frickin' time they do this!! Because I have that disease.

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~Today's Nameday-Vladimir~I am looking forward to leaving the majority of my clothes here in the Czech Republic. I brought one suticase with me here and I have replaced some of things I have brought with and added a couple, but otherwsie, I have worn the same sweaters, the same 4 pairs of pants and the same 6 shirts for two years (some of the stuff I had at school, so more!). And most of the

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~Today's Nameday-Monika~Yesterday marked the 24th anniversary of John Marie St. Francis. I told someone to whom it is very important to hear these memories that I would write about this on his memorial website. As of yet, I haven't.I must apologize that this post is a day late and I must also apologize to the person to whom I made that promise. It has not been forgotten. It's just

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~Today's Nameday-Ivo~The computer has been torn from us, yet again. Now it's the brand new one. It won't start. But it's supposedly fixed. And boss lady is too busy to pick it up.In other news, I just got locked in the mayor's office in the Sokolov with four of my students. This week has all the makings of a bizarre dream.

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~Today's Nameday-Pankrác~This is the first of three days that Czechs call the days of the Ice Men: Pankrác, Servác and Bonifác. Last year that was pretty much on the mark. But today has been the prettiest day all week.I passed by a large tourist bus packing the elementary kids off to "school in the nature" for spring. Czechs do this twice a year for the elementary kids and appartently even some

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~Today's Nameday-Svatava~This is why I should have gone home without reading the news:"Maybe I did not study very well in university because I drank too muchbeer in Soviet times," he (Vladimir Putin) said, "but something stillremains in my head, because our history teachers were good."This man is unbelievable. So is the European Union. They either agree with Latvia and Estonia or they don't. That

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~Today's Nameday-Svatava~Prepare for English class or prepare for Russian class? Prepare for English class or prepare for Russian class? Prepare for English class or prepare for Russian class? Prepare for English class or prepare for Russian class? Prepare for English class or prepare for Russian class? Prepare for English class or prepare for Russian class? Prepare for English class or prepare

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~Today's Nameday-Svatava~Teaching English to foreigners (or any foreign language for that matter) runs the risk of certain innocuous words in the target language sounding quite similar to dirty, funny or vulgar words in the students' mother tongue.A warning if your parents named you Hazel: you should choose a pseudonym prior to visiting the Czech Republic.I was told this great misunderstanding

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~Today's Nameday-Svatava~Yesterday's post was typical of my recent attitude towards things: I'm getting bent out of shape over the minutiae. So to combat this I will only post amusing and good things about life in CZR before I leave. Because I will miss it when I'm gone...Oh yes I will.

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~Today's Nameday-Blažena~New goofy pictures for your viewing pleasure.

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~Today's Nameday-Blažena~So, I drank about three large and one small beer Saturday afternoon/evening with a bunch of the local Americans from Sokolov. I started at the movie theater circa 5:15. (They actually serve it to you here, folks.) I finished at the Irish pub circa 9:40. I thought nothing of it. I was preoccupied with the fact that I gorged myself on a pizza and a half. (I had done a 15

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~Today's Nameday-Ctibar~If you had to give a name for that cardboard thing that you put under a beer glass in a pub that usually bares some advertisement for (most often in my case) the same beer you are drinking and whose purpose is to avoid those nasty circles on the table left from liquid damage, what would it be?My guess: it's the same name you call the glass, cork, plastic, or woven thing

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~Today's Nameday-Liberation Day~ That's state holiday, folks.June 16 is the day I fly into NYC.Check out new photos, people!!!!!!!

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~Today's Nameday-Stanislav~My ticket from Prague to NYC with a 50 minute stop in Paris: 6371 CZK (272.30$)The airport taxes: 2500 CZK (107 $)The added price for fuel costs!: 750 CZK (32$)But at least I know have a date! I'm going home. (A voice in the back of my head: Dummy! you don't live in NYC, you live in Virginia!)OK, so there will also be the price of the bus fare from NYC to DC.

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~Today's Naemday-Klaudia~I have a particular student twice a week whose English is excellent, but we have a hard time finding things about which to talk. Often we will regress to the weather.His comment is always: "It's nice now, but the forecast for the rest of the week is horrible."

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~Today's Nameday-Květoslav~Today's name is "Květoslav." I think anything with "slav" at the end of it sounds inherently virile. Even if the part before that means flower or blossom.

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~Today's Nameday-Květoslav~It seems everyone over the so-called "age of reason" is driving me batty. Either my new roommate's strange tuna fish diet (now the apartment reaks of tuna) or the American population of 6 acting like they're in thrid grade. Ahhhh!!!!But the kids said today, "Wow! Kate speaks Czech. It's because we taught you, right?"If they onyl knew how right they are.

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~Today's Nameday-Alexej~The same student who told me the story just posted also told me this one.A gypsy man comes to the hospital carrying his father fireman-carry style and throws him on the first free bed he sees. "Help my father," the man cries and then disappears outside. My student takes a careful and ascertains fairly quickly that "Dad" is already dead. He tells the nurse to find the son.

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~Today's Nameday-Alexej~My student is a doctor and he was telling me about the crazy stuff that happens while one emergency duty.Once there was this old gypsy lady who had come in because she had eaten a kilo (2.2lbs) of cherries. Pits and all. Needless to say she was having intestinal pain. Unfortunately, medication wasn't working so they had to help her, eh, the old fashioned way. That is

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