My travelog (which broke as faithful readers will no doubt recall) has been playing games with me today. It might be fixed, in that it does not display "cannot access travelog.earlham.cs.edu" but it does not display the content. Technology sucks fyi.
In fact I was talking with my roommate Mike earlier today about how much cameras suck, the realization I came to when I was in Bethlehem. Essentially I thought about how pilgrims to the Church of the Nativity before this century would spend an exhorbitant amount of time and money getting to the church and spend many days praying. Nowadays you take a day trip from your air conditioned hotel in Jerusalem, take a few pictures (if you're obnoxious, with the flash) and leave. I could see most visitors saying upon return "I was unimpressed"
Sooooo, yea technology only makes your mental health decline. Un?fortunately I don't have my computer with me, which on the plus side means I waste a lot less time, and on the downside means I'll have to scramble for access when it's time to write my 50+ page paper. I'm starting to dread it a bit. I think I have a topic (the Abdoun Bridge and why it's so weird) but I'm not really into it. I'd much rather spend time out in the country doing farm research or in the city looking into the farms that pop up on land that has been cleared but not built on yet. That's where my passion is heading but I can't think of an appropriate research question to apply. It would be enough to just investigate a bit.
I was going to wax political in the post but I think I'll save it for when I have more time to write. For a teaser/trailer here's a sentence: "A Quaker Anarchist can get mighty lonely in Amman"
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