{"id":198,"date":"2010-03-17T04:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2010\/03\/shotgun-blog\/"},"modified":"2010-03-17T04:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T04:20:00","slug":"shotgun-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2010\/03\/shotgun-blog.html","title":{"rendered":"Shotgun Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Lots going on, little time. Here are the tidbits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I was accepted into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woodenfish.org\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">woodenfish in Taiwan<\/a> program;<b> they\u2019re still taking applications <\/b>and if you\u2019re a more advanced grad student, definitely look at their China program. Well worth it \u2013 email me\/comment if you have any questions I can help with.<\/li>\n<li><b>Next up is applying to teach in India with <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/aea.antioch.edu\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Antioch<\/b><\/a><b>.<\/b> My good friend <a href=\"http:\/\/dannyfisher.org\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rev. Danny Fisher<\/a> worked on this program as has our new UM <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/buddhism' target='_blank'>Buddhism<\/a> prof and hopefully soon I will too. (please don\u2019t apply, I need as little competition as I can get!)<\/li>\n<li>After hearing that our county may have to start shutting down polling places due to a lack of election judges, <b>I dutifully signed up and completed my election judge training this evening<\/b> (me and two other sub-50 somethings in a room full of your stereotypical election judges). T\u2019was fun. I got to role-play the \u201cangry voter\u201d and of course was confused and laughing the whole time: \u201cdarn it\u2026 what do I say? Oh\u2026 I\u2019m angry!\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Hoping to blog about technology a bit soon \u2013 fun gadgets and whatnot. <b>My girlfriend is close to getting a Mac and I\u2019m pretty excited<\/b> \u2013 hoping to stress test it a bit vs my hp\/Windows 7.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>I just received a friendly challenge from the <a href=\"http:\/\/bitterrootbadger.wordpress.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bitterroot Badger<\/a>, aka Konchog Norbu, on reaching 500 twitter followers and had to reveal my secret rivalry with the above-mentioned Danny (who\u2019s already on his way to 600, grrrr).<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m 427 people\u00a0delinquent\u00a0on responding to twitter followers (sorry) and will tackle that tonight (I hope).<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019ve gone a<b> week without serious P\u0101li study<\/b> \u2013 kind of scary, plans to meet tomorrow though. Phew.<\/li>\n<li>I have been invited to act as sort-of official photographer for the return trip of <a href=\"http:\/\/ewambuddhagarden.org\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gochen Tulku Sang-ngag Rinpoche<\/a> this weekend, a great honor\u2026 but\u2026<\/li>\n<li>We\u2019ve just made plans to trek up to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crownofthecontinent.net\/content\/freezeout-lake-wildlife-management-area\/cotBC78CAD7FC2C38522\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Freezeout Lake<\/a>\u00a0with friends to see if we can catch part of the Canadian Snow Goose migration. So I\u2019ll catch the Rinpoche Thursday and Friday, but not over the weekend.<\/li>\n<li>Oh, and I submitted a paper to a small competition, should hear back in May.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Busy times. More to come soon.<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7907151-2203195964937182191?l=americanbuddhist.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots going on, little time. Here are the tidbits: I was accepted into the woodenfish in Taiwan program; they\u2019re still taking applications and if you\u2019re a more advanced grad student, definitely look at their China program. Well worth it \u2013 email me\/comment if you have any questions I can help with. Next up is applying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Shotgun Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lots going on, little time. 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