We received our bid list last week. For those of you not up with Foreign Service lingo, the bid list is the list of job assignments available to me for my onward post. Although the list has about 400 different jobs around the world, because of many different limitations, there are really only about 20 that we need to be concerned with. I have to submit my list in about a month with 20 options ranked in preference.
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There is something inherently wrong with living some place where you need to feel grateful when the temperature finally surpasses the freezing mark. After about two weeks of temperatures hovering between 10F and 17F, we’re finally to the point where my dog’s pee doesn’t instantly freeze into a yellow puddle next to the tree in front of our apartment.
The details on the situation are still a bit fuzzy, but a U.S. diplomat and his embassy driver were shot and killed in Khartoum, Sudan yesterday. He wasn’t much older than me and it doesn’t sound like he was doing anything any different than I was doing on New Year’s Eve. Scary stuff.
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