Oh yeah!

My last piece on neweurasia got cross-posted on Global Voices! Awesome!

http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/-/world/central-asia-caucasus

Yay!

Post alert!

Hurrah it's a new eurasianet post!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Go read it please--> Azerbaijan blog at neweurasianet

<3 denise

Me in general

You know, in th elast month I've gone to see Amartya Sen (sure you noticed that!), Christopher Hitchens, and Michelle Norris (NPR)- not to shabby at all really. So many interesting people coming to campus. Better enjoy it now- leaving the ivory tower eventually!

I've been studying, studying, studying. Reading, reading, reading. Presenting, presenting (only twice!). + again on Wednesday though. My classes? Sharani's seminar on Muslim societies- GREAT! International Development? GOOD. Democratization? zzzzzzzzzzzz oh i'm sorry was I sleeping? Cause the class is BOR-RING! Why are political scientists so obssessed with theory divorced from reality? Well, everything in life has a puropse, and this class (which I'm sure other people are enjoying) has shown me that I'm not, in fact, a political scientist, as I had thought. I'm still a political animal though. And Russian: what is it about language classes that regresses you back to high school? It's fine, I'm learning, I need to stay up on the homework better so that I won't have to bribe my teacher with candy again.

Besides that, I'm just livin'. Long hauls in the carrel. Feeling less stressed though which is good. Looking forward to Halloween!!!!!!!!!

Fall = Apples

I went apple picking today. It was very very nice. I ate 3 apples minimum there and lots of berries. Now I have 1) a big bag of apples 2) a pumpkin 3) pumpkin butter 4) a caramel apple and 5) a gallon of apple cider. wanna come over?

Pictures!