{"id":50,"date":"2006-08-08T19:08:37","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T23:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worksforfood.com\/read\/2006\/08\/08\/countdowns-on\/"},"modified":"2006-08-17T19:30:16","modified_gmt":"2006-08-17T23:30:16","slug":"countdowns-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/2006\/08\/08\/countdowns-on\/","title":{"rendered":"countdown’s on"},"content":{"rendered":"

As my ex-co-workers get started with RA training back in Morgantown, their two weeks of purgatory will coincide with my two weeks left stateside: I leave from PIT at 10:30 on the first Monday of school. With any luck I’ll be able to find a way to actually get to the airport: it’s my father’s first day of class in Montgomery, too, and it would be quite a drive to make it to PIT by 8:30 from here anyway.<\/p>\n

I have e-mailed my roommate and not gotten anything back… hope he can understand me at least a little, it’ll make things run smoother.<\/p>\n

Finally took my tuberculosis test (well, the first part: I still need to get it read on Friday) at the Health Dept. here today, which has started charging. I guess they can’t be expected to do everything for free, but it would have been nice if $10 had bought a bandage instead of a piece of (unwrapped) gauze off the counter. <\/p>\n

I’ve started thinking about communications: I’ll need to try to sweet-talk Sprint into cancelling my service without charging me $150. For Hong Kong, I’ve done a little research and it looks like the CSL Prepaid<\/a> SIM card will work fine, as long as I can find a tolerably-priced unlocked phone. I might even be able to get reasonable (around five US cents\/minute) international rates, which would be nice.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, law applications have continued to distract me from the more important goal of finishing a paper for my Summer Guided Reading course in Information Ethics. To my frustration, many of the schools require a “certification letter” to be sent by mail. But instead of writing about this, I think I need to go write ten pages or so about Information Ethics. And upgrade the blogging software… NO. Information Ethics. Capitalized Words. Yes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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