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Sat Sep 12, 2009 09:56 (UTC -5)

I was sick last weekend (for the millionth time, I did not have the swine flu), and then I had a busy week.

Why was my week so busy? I’ve been preparing for the Esperanto Club’s first meeting of the year. Per a reader’s request, I’ll answer some questions about the club here.

The club is simply called the Esperanto Club. We sometimes use the qualifier “…at UF” to distinguish it from other Esperanto clubs. Our Facebook group is our online source of information. We post announcements and relevant links there. We typically teach the language at our meetings, but we’ll probably branch out to other topics once people get the hang of it.

For this year’s first meeting, Andy and I are going to talk about how we got around Europe with Esperanto. I wrote to my friend at a student-run newspaper asking her to write a story (she hasn’t responded), I submitted a short description for the newspaper’s “What’s Happening” column (it was published yesterday and will probably continue to run), I submitted a 500-word guest article to the newspaper (nothing has come from that, of course), and I submitted a description to the daily e-mail newsletter for honors students (it was published yesterday and will continue to run) and to the general university e-mail newsletter (which goes out on Mondays). Oh, and Andy and I manned a table at the Student Organization Fair all day Thursday.

Our presentation, “Breaking Down Borders with Esperanto,” will take place on Tuesday evening. On the off chance that a UF student or Gainesvillian is reading this and hasn’t heard of the event before and would be interested in going, here’s the event page with more details.

The New York Times has an interactive graph showing How Different Groups Spend Their Day. (Via J-Walk Blog)

After the recent death of John Hughes, a woman wrote about how she had been the Hollywood director’s pen pal when she was a teenager. A touching story. (Via waxy.org)

When could you tell your relationship was over? It Was Over When… (Via J-Walk Blog)


3 comments

#1 by Brian Barker: Sat Sep 12, 2009 19:29 (UTC -5)

Gratulon Jordon pro sukcesa vojagho !

#2 by Jordon Kalilich: Sun Sep 13, 2009 10:21 (UTC -5)

Dankon!

#3 by William Edwards: Tue Nov 23, 2010 14:15 (UTC -5)

I heard that mercury is this active ingredient at this shot that kills this virus. What is this purpose for mercury at this shots?

Does anyone know if this is true? What’s up with this mercury at flu shots?

– William Edwards

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