Pre-FS: The Oregon Era
The 1st leg of our Journey… Everything before moving to DC
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You are a dog, which meant dog poop, pee, vomit, hair, stink, and muddy pawprints. Did these chores actually teach our little ones about responsibility? Perhaps not. But you were…
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After waiting for ages, we’re finally on the rollercoaster. The lap bar has snapped down. We’re climbing that first hill. It’s waaaaay too late to get off now. I quit…
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Hanna Andersson, Columbia employee store, Darn Tough socks, REI, Cotopaxi, Travelpro. Goodwill, Craigslist, junk removal. Money goes out. Stuff comes in and goes out. Every project that we complete, we…
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My final patient at the urgent care chain had new onset dysphagia after a URI. It was mild enough not to warrant a full dysphagia workup just yet, so I…
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The most common concern we hear about the journey we’re starting is, “isn’t the foreign service going to be so dangerous? Especially for the kids?” A few days ago, there…
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So many secrets… but my salary is public!
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Getting into the Foreign Service is seriously hard. No one will say *how* hard… that’s a state secret, supposedly? And there were some parts of the process that I swore…
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I’m really going to miss my coworkers.
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How do you make decisions about the future when you don’t know where you’re going? I’m talking about cars, but also everything else we own. We’ve got a VW Tiguan…
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WE DID IT WE GOT IN TO THE FOREIGN SERVICE JEN! WHAT HAVE WE DONE! (we got notice that I’m in. I start July 5th in DC. Holy priceless collection…
