Todd Badham and Nicole Mulhausen, who have led "green" commuting efforts at Puget Sound, have been recognized with 2011 Employee Transportation Coordinator of the Year awards from Pierce Trips.
For a temple not on the Angkor pass, Beng Mealea was surprisingly grandiose; the moat and south entrance are almost to the same scale as Angkor Wat. A kid I would estimate to be about 13 showed us around the temple; we followed him over and under and through, and I was able to shoot some pretty good segments of Colin doing his thing (much to our guide's enjoyment).
For the second time in many years, the freshman in my course CSOC 117: The Anthropology of Food and Eating took over a local McDonalds... For the past several weeks, the class had been reading James Watson’s book Golden Arches East. In that book, anthropologists use the ethnographic toolkit to explore McDonalds entry into Asia.
I’ve been thinking a lot about how much I’ve enjoyed receiving my education at Puget Sound. It really is a lovely place. I’ve been wandering around taking pictures in the rain, and I’d love to wander around and take some in the chilly sunshine that is gracing us today, but I’m living in the library. I am a library-dwelling creature now, and this desk is my new home.
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