bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Aug 8, 2011, 6:46 pm
I had a confirmed ticket for Bangkok just hours before I left for two weeks.  I didn’t even know I was going until the evening before and knew a couple days before that about the job in the first place.  When I joked about always having a current passport and a nearly packed suitcase to leave th...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Jul 15, 2011, 11:52 am
Normally if a magazine isn’t interested in my query they don’t respond at all.  However, I did get a response from this guy.  I pitched to an inflight magazine.  Here is his response (then I’ll tell you what I sent): “Hi Audrey, Thank you for the pitch. Unfortunately, being an airline, ...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Jul 15, 2011, 11:43 am
I have a goal to get back to the blog.  It helps me get the juices flowing.  My grandpa passed away two weeks ago, though, so I’m a little withdrawn in general.  So in an attempt to take baby steps out into life again I’ve decided to try a humorous post.  I’ll have to dedicate a post to my...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Jun 19, 2011, 5:00 pm
Summer hit so it’s taken me a while to get used to a new schedule and keep up the writing.  I’ve gone to a Nationals baseball game and I’ve been active.  It feels great. Tennis Swimming Gym (Weights/Cardio) Long Walks 3/4/5 times a week. I did have my first gym misstep, though, this ...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - May 9, 2011, 11:53 pm
I was running past cheetahs on the way to work today and since I don’t normally do that, I thought I would mention it.  And I can’t explain why I was running past some cheetahs (live cheetahs I might add) because then I would have to kill you, right.  I do live in DC, you know, where everythin...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Apr 29, 2011, 11:30 am
“I will” twice.  Kissing twice.  Definitely worth waking up for.  Will and Kate married this morning amidst trumpets and boys choirs, Union Jacks and peacock tail hats–millions of them. I had a poignant moment living in Britain.  As a group of friends, British and American we were sitting...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Apr 17, 2011, 6:28 pm
Don’t ask me why I did this, but I did a sushi demonstration for a wedding shower yesterday.  My family makes more sushi than pot roast.  When a girl made a shout-out on the listserv for a sushi demonstrator I said, why not.  We are big Asian food lovers. And making sushi is so tactile.  You ...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Apr 17, 2011, 6:03 pm
Katelin Austin sent me an email that tipped the scales.  Katelin is a student from my first year teaching at Provo High and the life saver of my once fledgling teaching career.  She kinda caught the wind that I enjoy writing back then.  (Students were writing papers for my ASL class–not normal ...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Apr 9, 2011, 7:58 pm
I have been published in an online news journal in Europe, Eurasia Review.  Here is the link to the article: Double Facebook Profile: Egyptian Women Online http://www.eurasiareview.com/double-facebook-profile-egyptian-women-online-05042011/ You didn’t see women very often during the Egyptian r...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Apr 9, 2011, 7:42 pm
Teaching Arabic again.  Been doing it for about a month now actually.  I don’t want to spill all the details online but it is probably one of the most trippy jobs I have ever had in my life and I really enjoy it.  I would share the details but I think I will wait. Filed under: A Comment
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Apr 2, 2011, 10:11 pm
Arabic students from Washington, DC and Doha, Qatar participated in rounds of debates using Cisco Systems TelePresence.  I was looking for a way to get students to learn Arabic after school without credit.  QFI provided the connecting schools in Qatar and two teachers from a boys and girls school ...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Apr 2, 2011, 9:58 pm
I wrote the last post at 3:00am in the morning after churning the CNN special in my mind for two and a half hours.  It all came out in a tumble, hardly organized; so much of my life’s work in the past while mixed and aired on a one hour show. And in an effort to try to give my last post a punch ...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Mar 28, 2011, 2:39 am
Interacting with American Muslims Soledad O’Brien from CNN did a great job with tonight’s “Unwelcome: The Muslims Next Door” newszine piece.  She centered her investigation in Murfreesboro, Tennessee interviewing Muslims and their opponents about the building of the Islamic Center there. ...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Mar 24, 2011, 9:38 am
Saucy Cuisine.  This is my mom’s new food blog.  It combines a lot of things she excels at: cooking, writing, photography.  She started it Christmas 2010 so it’s been running for about 3 months.  It’s got a lot of class and I am the very thankful recipient of many if not all of the recipes...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Mar 24, 2011, 9:28 am
“Hot dog please.” –”What would you like on it?” “Ummmm…” –”We have mustard, ketchup, chilli, cheese…” “Mustard and ketchup please.” –”Relish, Sour Kraut, and Onions?” “Onions” –”Relish?” “No, onions are fine. Thanks.” –”What about the reli...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Mar 17, 2011, 9:45 pm
My friend Katelin posted this on her Facebook account.  If you haven’t seen this, it is funny. Check this out:   Filed under: A Comment
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Mar 17, 2011, 9:40 pm
Another creative light was snuffed out in the winds of the national high school Arabic flagship. I found out about it last night and was sad.  People may not have liked everything this teacher was doing, but the person works in the trenches and made huge strides in unifying a significant amount of ...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Mar 13, 2011, 9:30 pm
It’s hard to watch a place that matters to you get destroyed.  The video of the tsunami devouring the neatly planted fields and greenhouses was particularly difficult.  Prepared as Japanese are for these kinds of events, it reminds me how much we can’t control.  In a moment our lives and fort...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Mar 8, 2011, 9:41 am
I just found out there have been some pretty serious misunderstandings about me rolling around which have cost me some work.  It was based on some misperceptions and really not knowing me very well.  I am grateful to the person who made me aware of what was going on and I’ve tried to remedy the ...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Mar 6, 2011, 1:15 pm
One is Enough Apparently there is this show people are reality tv show about a 41-year old man, Kody Brown with plural wives.  In Utah being married to more than one person is a third degree felony and police are investigating and will prosecute if there is enough evidence.   If you still believ...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Mar 2, 2011, 10:38 am
Ok.  I know CNN has women during the day but what happened to the nightly line up when I’m actually home?  After Parker left, there are no women.  I get that the nightly demographic of news watchers tend to be male but please, a little feminine for us poor females who actually enjoy watching CN...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Mar 2, 2011, 9:40 am
Here’s a list of what I subscribe to: -The Economist A British publication, I discovered it during my masters degree in England. Found that I enjoyed the dynamics of the international political economy more than I thought. It’s not all about finance, though. It’s dense and you have to be r...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Feb 13, 2011, 3:15 pm
Dodging secret service detail in the hall of church today inspired me to write this post.  Senate majority leader, Harry Reed, a Democrat from Nevada is third in line for President of the United States and entitled to full-time secret service detail.  You aren’t going to easily miss these large ...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Feb 10, 2011, 9:47 pm
“I will call it Revolution 2.0.” Wael Ghonim, the Google rep in Egypt, called his internet driven protest, “Revolution 2.0″ on CNN. I am of course following closely the events in Egypt, but I’m also listening to Egyptian singers and watching Egyptian movies.  This is a week to be satur...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Feb 7, 2011, 12:36 am
I listened to her book on tape, My Life in France.  Now we had the opportunity to see her kitchen up close.  I was struck by how many kitchen gadgets she had on the walls.  By the way, the outlines of the pots you see in the photograph on the glass are showing what used to hang on the wall before...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Feb 7, 2011, 12:32 am
This choir sang for President Obama on Friday.  They sang for a gathering crowd at the American History Museum on the Smithsonian. Filed under: A Comment
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Feb 7, 2011, 12:26 am
I grew up in Okinawa, Japan as a little girl.  My mom was a certified Ikebana instructor.  She often took us to the flower market to to purhcase supplies for the upcoming week of classes.  One time she took us to an orchid farm.  I remember being completely transfixed by the smells, the colors, ...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Feb 1, 2011, 1:40 pm
One of my brothers texted me this morning wanting to know my thoughts on what is going on in Egypt so I told him I would write a post about it.  We had a good discussion over the phone as well.  He’s cool. From my reading, my experiences in Egypt, working closely with Egyptians here in the US, ...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Feb 1, 2011, 12:32 pm
On my way home from the metro the other day several cars got stuck driving up hill.  I noticed they would push the petal down harder when they got stuck but were often unsuccessful.  So, just for fun I decided to tap on their window.  I told them to push the petal softly and got a few branches to...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Jan 26, 2011, 8:05 pm
Days after Tunisians ousted their president, Egyptians take to the streets of Cairo to protest president Mubarak, corruption, unemployment, emergency law, and more.  These first steps are hard to guage yet but I am always happy when Egyptians, whom I have grown to love, begin to take these steps. ...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Jan 13, 2011, 11:15 am
A guy in a ski mask eyes only showing didn’t look totally out of norm.  A relatively cold day could warrant a ski mask.  It wasn’t until Gallery Place metro stop when he ran out the metro at the last second as if for his life that everyone started to wonder.  Not minutes later, the older whit...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Dec 30, 2010, 1:50 pm
My cousins came to visit us in DC the past three days.  We took the younger group to the Air and Space Museum out by Dulles Airport then into the city for the Postal Museum which is great for kids.  We looked online to get metro pricing for youth to rail down to Union Station. Good news, says my ...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Dec 30, 2010, 1:36 pm
This has been a big year for me. Here are some of the highlights by topic: Guys: It seems that a lot of the people who read this blog are interested in this topic so I’ll start with it. This has definitely been a year full of dating especially since I moved here to DC. I was dating after my fi...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Dec 21, 2010, 10:04 am
Merry Christmas. Filed under: A Comment
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Dec 17, 2010, 10:21 am
Check this out. This really happens all the time. And you wonder how these guys get their PhDs. Filed under: A Comment, ASL
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Dec 14, 2010, 2:27 pm
I was reading through Facebook stati this morning.  Several people mentioned the weather which for the most part seems pretty cold out there.  Loads of snow in some areas.  I have a friend, though, living in Hawaii who had to mention she still wears flip-flops out and about.  Rough life. I, for...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Dec 9, 2010, 4:35 pm
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger.  Here is another go at fiction.  Can you even guess why I might have picked this one?  hmmmmm.  Maybe it has something to do with her cool name.  But besides that she is also the author of, The Time Traveler’s Wife. She worked in a cemetery in Lond...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Dec 9, 2010, 4:27 pm
Life of Pi by Yann Martel.  I really struggle with fiction but this was on a lot of my friends’ favorites list so I thought I would give it a go.  The blue and orange cover with the white boat and cartoon figures of a boy and a tiger make it seem like a comic.  And it really could be if you wer...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Dec 2, 2010, 10:00 pm
Wow… Nashville is like, well…I’m not even going to try to describe it wordedly.  Maybe you’ll see when you look at these pics–look closely at some of them. This lady belongs in the Parthenon–not in Greece, but in Nashville.  Yes, they have a Parthenon with an Athena and they light th...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Dec 2, 2010, 9:57 pm
I went down to Murfreesboro, Tennessee for Thanksgiving thinking I would run into a herd of extreme Christians I’ve seen on the news.  And indeed, it seemed that the size of the cross around their neck or staked into their yard signaled the size of their religious devotion.  Some of those pendan...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Dec 2, 2010, 9:53 pm
So many of you have been very encouraging about writing my blog.  And I am such a sucker for writing, I’ve decided to take it up again.  And also because I had something I really wanted to write down and no place to put it.  So here it is in the next two posts. Filed under: A Comment
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Oct 12, 2010, 11:08 pm
Dear reader, This blog is approaching 10,000 hits.  I am amazed.  I originally started it to have a forum to practice and print my writing, posting every 4-7 days to give myself a goal and a thinking pad.  What should I write?  When? How? etc.  Now that I’m living in DC, I am planning to att...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Oct 10, 2010, 9:48 pm
Today is a day to celebrate 10.  So in honor of this day of 10s, here is my list of 10 things for which I am grateful. 1.  You. I’m really grateful for people who read my blog.  I feel like you know a part of me that few people do.  Thanks for taking the time. 2.  My family. I get a lot of ...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Oct 3, 2010, 9:14 pm
My grandpa is famous in this new video documenting the production of the LDS scriptures.  His name is George Horton and he’s featured many times in the hour long broadcast.  I’m including two clips.  One is the trailer if you don’t have an hour to watch.  The other is the feature length ve...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Oct 2, 2010, 1:53 pm
Elder Uchtdorf is the German member of the Quorum of the Twelve among the leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a modern apostle. I loved his remarks today.  He seemed to bring a German perspective to the message he gave.  He cautioned us to slow down rather than speed up wh...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Oct 2, 2010, 12:37 pm
Aida from the Doha Debates spoke to my Arabic students and two faculty members this past week.  Students were inspired to debate.  This should be an interesting year for dialogue about the Middle East in both English and Arabic. The debates are not carried on TV in the United States.  BBC sponso...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Oct 2, 2010, 12:07 pm
We dated for a bit over a month.  It was a lot of fun.  I learned a lot but who doesn’t learn a lot from a relationship.  As I look back my favorite part of our relationship was the following moment in time: He and my mom were talking.  My mom said something about me being really strong-w...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Sep 24, 2010, 9:45 am
I normally interact a lot with the Muslim/Arab communitybut recently I got a chance to work with the Jewish community as well to visit a Yom Kippur service.  There are quite a few words I recognized in Hebrew because of my Arabic background.  It was fun.  It was a very nice event and I really enj...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Sep 24, 2010, 9:40 am
FYI-For those of you curious to know what The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (nicknamed, “the Mormons”) position was on the Koran burning issue over the Sep 11 weekend. “A key tenet of our faith is to accord everyone the freedom to worship as they ...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Sep 15, 2010, 11:13 pm
Snippets from interpreting: Goats: I’m interpreting along.  It’s in-depth analysis type of stuff in a high level setting.  This requires from me intense concentration to first capture the meaning in English and then turn it into a comprehensible form of ASL. Suddenly they start talki...
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