For Christmas lunch, I was invited to the home of another teacher at the college. Peace Corps Feat #6, get someone to take you home and feed you. Anyway, she is a lady that I do want to be better friends with, being the other woman teacher in the department (the department head is also a women but because of the way rank works here, the teachers are not just friends with the department heads, particularly if there is a difference in education levels). She is a very determined lady who took over and fixed her parents' home after they passed away, and she is in the process of divorcing an abusive husband. She has a small daughter who is going to grow up with a mother who has the guts to be a woman in a very male-dominated field (that's hard enough in the US where there at least is a sexual harassment policy even if it may or may not be enforced depending on the authorities' views of the clothing the wronged party was wearing at the time), and has the courage to defy the traditional role that a woman must have a husband any husband regardless of mistreatment. My friend on the Masai Steppe told me that the talk of her village is still the lady who divorced her husband and left after he hit her. Patriarchy: getting weaker all the time!
In other news, cheese! We've apparently been eating it since before lactose tolerance. Go, Atlantic Holocene ancestors, go!
An African nation is noteworthy for a lack of corruption! Go Botswana! Send some capacity builders to Tanzania!
There is a push for Alan Turing to be officially pardoned, not just apologized to. Respect for the father of computer science!
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