"ImmoralMinority" (araimondo)
11/07/2018 at 17:57 • Filed to: None
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"ImmoralMinority" (araimondo)
11/07/2018 at 17:57 • Filed to: None | 2
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My trip to Oxnard got canceled, so no mini Oppo meetup. Sadness. Waiting for word on the Sunchaser, and an unpleasant update on the cost of the Cressida work.
We had a big mediation for a big client today, and I handed it off to my top associate because heart attack, and because the kid needs a chance to get to the plate in the bigs. Client likes him and has confidence, but this has left me with a quiet day.
So I was cleaning out my office and stumbled across this:
An interesting find the day after the election. It was an amazing experience to work on starting democracy from scratch that forever destroyed many of my assumptions about the mechanisms of bureaucracy. 20 years ago. It was a powerful and emotional experience, including a short love affair with a young Serbian interpreter in the Voter Registration Center (VRC). This her on a break (from my photo album).
I found some notes from her as well, one warning me that the VRC supervisor (Valeria) was asking about us, and this one, which she gave me the day after the first time we spent an evening together, wandering around and making silly jokes in the bombed out rubble. But that part of it is another story for another time.
Recollecting, a lot of it feels like it happened to someone else, as young me seems like a stranger now. I had not thought of this experience for a long time. It is funny what you come across packing up to move your office. I have often wondered what it would be like to travel there today and see how it has changed. I wonder if I could find my apartment and the VRC.
Sorry, I am not ordinarily nostalgic, but I am having a strange day. If you want a good laugh, this is me in the 90s with a coworker in Bosnia.
Or even worse, at Wrigley field in 1997:
I cannot confirm or deny my BAC in this picture. I hope this amuses you.
Svend
> ImmoralMinority
11/07/2018 at 18:58 |
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Lol. That goatee. From a British point of view, you look like the stereotypical 90s American.
No matter how life likes to kick us, we still manage to have some great times and th e memories to going .
Just enjoy the quiet and rest.
ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
> ImmoralMinority
11/07/2018 at 19:01 |
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Neat. I imagine if I did some digging I’d find something about OSCE in either the budget/appropriations or foreign affairs sub series in the large s enatorial collection here in the archives.
Steve in Manhattan
> ImmoralMinority
11/07/2018 at 19:16 |
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Did I miss that you had a Cressida?
Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> ImmoralMinority
11/07/2018 at 19:19 |
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To look at that young woman from years ago and think of being in fling is powerful stuff.
Speaking of being in
fling
, have you tried the show
Bodyguard
on Netflix? Whether or not you wind up liking it, I’d rate the show WELL WORTH giving it a try. And then some.
Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
11/07/2018 at 19:37 |
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That show is stressful as hell. Just watched the first couple of episodes the other day. It is a good watch for sure so far. My favorite part so far is just how much suspense there is constantly.
Chariotoflove
> ImmoralMinority
11/07/2018 at 20:58 |
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Now you’ve got me remembering the things of youth, of old loves and poems and paths not taken.
*sigh*
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
11/07/2018 at 21:16 |
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I read some spoilers and I still can't bear the suspense. We're on Ep 4. May not get back to it until the weekend.
someassemblyrequired
> ImmoralMinority
11/07/2018 at 21:42 |
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I would love to be a fly on the wall when critics find out you were off bringing democracy to the Balkans in the 90s while wearing a save the environment t-shirt. And not just any town - the site of some of the nastiest things to happen in that war. Their heads must just explode.
Anyways, hope the Cressida news isn’t too bad.