the big cactus: November 2008

This is the Big Cactus.

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The Soul of an Octopus by Montgomery
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
Cloud Atlas by Mitchell
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by Mitchell
Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself by Lipsky
The Righteous Mind by Haidt
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Smith
Revelations by Moffatt
Alone on the Wall by Honnold
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by Wallace
9 out of 10 Climbers...by McCleod
Training for the New Alpinism by House
Rock Climber's Training Manual by Anderson
The Self Coached Climber by Hague
The Talent Code by Coyle
Stumbling Upon Happiness by Gilbert
Love Sense by Johnson
Consider the Lobster by Wallace
Who Rules the Earth? by Steinberg
The Psychology of Romantic Love by Johnson
A Random Walk Down Wallstreet by Malkiel
The Poisonwood Bible by Kingslover
Thinking Fast and Slow by Kahneman
How to be Alone by Franzen
Freedom by Franzen
Tales of the Unexpected by Dahl
The Age of American Unreason by Jacoby
Silent Spring by Carson
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Pirsig
Welcome to the Monkey House by Vonnegut
The Grand Design by Hawking
The Black Swan by Taleb
The Odyssey by Homer
The Corrections by Franzen
This Side of Paradise by Fitzgerald
A Fan's Notes by Exley
1776 by McCullough
East of Eden by Steinbeck
Desert Solitaire by Abbey
Papillon by Cherriere
Galapagos by Vonnegut
Dark Star Safari by Theroux
The Qur'an
The Crossing by McCarthy
the Lao Tzu by Lao Tzu
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by Perkins
Armageddon in Retrospect by Vonnegut
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass...
American Constitutional Law by Mason
Lonely Planet Southern Africa
Lonely Planet Egypt
One Shot by Childs
The God Delusion by Dawkins
Infinite Jest by Wallace
Love in the Time of Cholera by Marquez (again)
Beloved by Morrison
The Road to Hell by Maren
The Freedom of the Hills 8th ed.
The Way to Freedom by the Dalai Lama
Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Ralston
Heft on Wheels by Magnuson
Walden by Thoreau
Sophie's World by Gaarder
Slaughterhouse-Five by Vonnegut
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Chopra
With the Old Breed by Sledge
Harry Potter 7 by Rowling
Harry Potter 6 by Rowling
Harry Potter 5 by Rowling
Harry Potter 4 by Rowling
Harry Potter 3 by Rowling
Holidays on Ice by Sedaris
Harry Potter 2 by Rowling
Harry Potter 1 by Rowling
Sex, Drugs, and Coco Puffs by Klosterman
Three Cups of Tea by Mortenson
Me Talk Pretty One Day by Sedaris
The Life of Pi by Martel
K2: Life and Death... by Viesters
Six Easy Pieces by Feynman
The Road by McCarthy
Women by Bukowski
The Quants by Patterson
The Big Short by Lewis
Naked by Sedaris
A Heart Breaking Work of Staggering Genius by Eggers
The Once and Future King by White
Literature and It's Writers by Charters
The Plague by Camus
Trainspotting by Welsh
Heart of Darkness by Conrad
The Creature From Jeckyll Island by Griffin
The Fountainhead by Rand
The Seven Pillars of Wisdom by Lawrence
What is the What by Eggers
A Long Way Down by Hornby
Genghis Kahn and the Making of the Modern World by Weatherford
Casino by Pileggi
The Bourne Ultimatum by Ludlum
A Handbook for Stock Investors by Chuan
The Pearl by Steinbeck
The Red Pony by Steinbeck
Nothing to Lose by Child
Lonely Planet Malaysia, Singapore & Brunei
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by Sedaris
The Kite Runner by Hosseini
Conversations With God by Walsch
The Bottom Billion by Collier
Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot And Other Candid Opinions by Franken
A Moveable Feast by Hemmingway
The Prince by Machiavelli
Outliers by Gladwell
Now I Can Die In Peace by Simmons
As I Lay Dying by Faulkner
Snuff by Palunchuk
From Beirut to Jerusalem by Friedman
Development as Freedom by Sen
Love in the Time of Cholera by Marquez
Underworld by DeLillo
The Republic by Plato
Catch 22 by Heller
Influence by Cialdini
Tipping Point by Gladwell
Nudge by Thaler
Catcher in the Rye by Salinger
Lonely Planet: Vietnam
Atlas Shrugged by Rand
Red Badge of Courage by Crane
Player Piano by Vonnegut
The Old Man and The Sea by Hemmingway
How To Change The World by Bornstein
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Diamond
Iggy Pop: Open Up And Bleed by Trynka
:07 Seconds or Less by McCallum
The Blind Side by Lewis
The White Man's Burden by Easterly
The End of Poverty by Sachs

these are the days of my life of my life

August 2012: California sleepin'
May 2012: homeward by way of India, Hungary, France and Germany
July, 2011: commodity prices double, strikes and protests ensue
February 18, 2011: presidential elections
July 11, 2010: al Shabob detonates two bombs in Kampala
April 22, 2010: depart for my site 40km outside of Gulu in northern Uganda
April 21, 2010: completed training (round 2 cockadoodle doo) and sworn in as volunteer at ambassador's residence in Kampala
February 7, 2010: depart for Uganda
December 2009: accept invitation to Uganda
October 30, 2009: Peace Corps Guinea program suspended and I reapply for another post
October 5, 2009: Peace Corps orders departure and consolidation in neighboring Mali
October 1, 2009: arrive at my site, Lafou
September 28, 2009: government troops murder and rape hundreds of citizens attending a political rally in Conakry
September 27, 2009: departed Conakry to Labe, the capital city of the mountainous Fouta region
September 25, 2009: completed training and sworn in as volunteer at the capital city of Conakry
July 5, 2009: left for training in Guinea
April 17, 2009: accepted invitation to Guinea
January 2009: medically cleared
June 2008: interviewed and nominated
May 2008: submitted PC application

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November 20, 2008

an introduction

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