Posted on September 28, 2007 by poupee97
I have never noticed a city I visited less than I noticed Pondicherry on this trip. I knew my way to the orphanage, and that was all. I even had to have the beach pointed out to me along the way, I was that preoccupied.
Meeting the twins at the orphanage, I could not say there [...]
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Posted on September 27, 2007 by poupee97
We got our babies! We drove back from Pondicherry yesterday afternoon. It was all relatively smooth sailing, medical tests were all clear and the girls took to us without too much fuss. They’re sleeping for the moment, but it’s time I went and woke them up for dinner. I don’t think I’m going to be [...]
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Posted on September 18, 2007 by poupee97
Two days of unemployment, and the condition doesn’t so far seem very different from the past two years of employment. Correction, the condition hasn’t been very different, I should say, considering I had about the same volume of work then as I do now.
Leaving office wasn’t too much of an ordeal. Surprisingly, one team that [...]
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Posted on September 13, 2007 by poupee97
There’s no point going on about it, but the fact remains that every time we see kids – and we see kids every day, every where, damn it! – I think of how nice it would be to have our own, and I wonder when it’s ever going to happen and whether it’s ever going [...]
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