What I’ve been up to for the last two months…

November 1, 2009 at 23:30 · Filed under In the news, Life and tagged: AUC, Bard Politik, Cairo, Iran

Sorry, sorry, sorry… I am an abysmal blogger… In my defense, I am working a full time internship and taking a full time load of courses… On which note, I actually have been blogging over the last few months (admittedly, I will be getting a grade on it at the end of the semester. The wonders of coercion!) and I’d like to point you over there. My most recent post there was on Iran and the wonders of our ability, in spite of the lessons of Vietnam and Afghanistan, to treat countries as though they have no history or culture. Yes, we are not currently at war with Iran, and I sure hope we won’t be any time in the near (or not so near for that matter) future, but as far as I’m concerned the lesson still stands. I’d also recommend taking a look at some of the other posts on that blog. There’s some interesting stuff that comes up from time to time.

I’ve also been writing articles for Bard Politik’s online journal which are, with the exception of my recent editorial (also on Iran), less opinion pieces and more straight up news reporting. I’m going to be very honest and say that those are probably going to be the main places I’m actually posting online until the end of the semester (mid-December). I just currently don’t have the time I need to devote to trtn. Sorry folks!

In non blog related news, it is now set that I will be headed to Cairo next semester (assuming I can get together the fees and send them off in the next two weeks). Which means I’m now just looking for housing, etc. I’m pretty excited about this and not least because of what it will hopefully mean for trtn. As trtn was originally founded to give viewpoints on the news from places that don’t get so much space in the blogosphere (such as Cairo), this’ll be my first opportunity to try to actually put that into practice. We’ll see how that goes.

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