Comments for TiJ http://fitru.wordpress.com This is Jamaica Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:50:27 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Next Post by Mary Robinson http://fitru.wordpress.com/2008/09/07/114/#comment-53 Mary Robinson Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:50:27 +0000 http://fitru.wordpress.com/?p=114#comment-53 I had heard about the Jamaican funerals, but seeing the preparations for one right in your back yard was awesome. One picture is worth a thousand words. So far the Jacksonville area has been fairly lucky, although we did get a lot of damage and power outage with Fay. We are still cleaning up after it. In other news... John McCain has chosen an imminantly qualified, experienced statesman to run for vice president and president pro tem of the Senate. Someone will need to show her where the Senate meets. More on this later. I had heard about the Jamaican funerals, but seeing the preparations for one right in your back yard was awesome. One picture is worth a thousand words. So far the Jacksonville area has been fairly lucky, although we did get a lot of damage and power outage with Fay. We are still cleaning up after it.

In other news… John McCain has chosen an imminantly qualified, experienced statesman to run for vice president and president pro tem of the Senate. Someone will need to show her where the Senate meets. More on this later.

]]> Comment on On Jacksonville by ian gottesman http://fitru.wordpress.com/2008/05/31/on-jacksonville-fl-30%c2%b019%e2%80%b210%e2%80%b3n-81%c2%b039%e2%80%b236%e2%80%b3w%ef%bb%bf-%ef%bb%bf3031944-8166/#comment-52 ian gottesman Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:28:39 +0000 http://fitru.wordpress.com/?p=54#comment-52 your comments on jacksonville vs jamaica are too funny. I grew up in Gainesville Florid not too far from Jacksonville and I was a PCV in JA from 03-05. The things you say ring true to me. Good luck as a PCV it looks a lot better in hindsight then it feels at the time. your comments on jacksonville vs jamaica are too funny. I grew up in Gainesville Florid not too far from Jacksonville and I was a PCV in JA from 03-05. The things you say ring true to me. Good luck as a PCV it looks a lot better in hindsight then it feels at the time.

]]> Comment on A beginner’s guide to freakish tropical fruit by josey http://fitru.wordpress.com/2008/06/07/a-beginners-guide-to-freakish-tropical-fruit/#comment-51 josey Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:20:40 +0000 http://fitru.wordpress.com/?p=63#comment-51 Athena looks really mad in that photo btw. Its probably because you were holding her down and petting her for 4 hours....as you tend to do. lol Athena looks really mad in that photo btw. Its probably because you were holding her down and petting her for 4 hours….as you tend to do. lol

]]> Comment on A beginner’s guide to freakish tropical fruit by josey http://fitru.wordpress.com/2008/06/07/a-beginners-guide-to-freakish-tropical-fruit/#comment-50 josey Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:18:49 +0000 http://fitru.wordpress.com/?p=63#comment-50 seriously chris? you eat that goop that comes out of the center of that fruit? wow I wonder what was going through your mind when you were first putting that to your mouth. I personally gag at seeing the stuff. seriously chris? you eat that goop that comes out of the center of that fruit? wow I wonder what was going through your mind when you were first putting that to your mouth. I personally gag at seeing the stuff.

]]> Comment on No good can come of this by josey http://fitru.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/66/#comment-49 josey Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:10:48 +0000 http://fitru.wordpress.com/?p=66#comment-49 Chris, you ARE a mysterious and otherwordly orb. Though your writing is interesting and well thought out. You should write a book. Chris, you ARE a mysterious and otherwordly orb. Though your writing is interesting and well thought out. You should write a book.

]]> Comment on No good can come of this by Matt http://fitru.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/66/#comment-48 Matt Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:38:06 +0000 http://fitru.wordpress.com/?p=66#comment-48 The connected dots made me laugh out loud. The connected dots made me laugh out loud.

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]]> Comment on A beginner’s guide to freakish tropical fruit by Mary Robinson http://fitru.wordpress.com/2008/06/07/a-beginners-guide-to-freakish-tropical-fruit/#comment-43 Mary Robinson Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:22:43 +0000 http://fitru.wordpress.com/?p=63#comment-43 A wonderful romp through a Jamaican cornucopeia. A few days after reading your essay, I came upon a big dispaly of tropical fruit at Publix. It was "Tropical Week, completer with pseudoisland music playing softly from behind the pineapples. It worked for me. We bought a fresh pineapple, bannanas (well, we always buy bannanas), and a bout six mangos. I went home and made fresh fruit smoothies all weekend, and thought lovingly of you. John and Srah read your blog regularly. Sarah liked seeing a picture of Athena and John likes your commentaries. A wonderful romp through a Jamaican cornucopeia. A few days after reading your essay, I came upon a big dispaly of tropical fruit at Publix. It was “Tropical Week, completer with pseudoisland music playing softly from behind the pineapples. It worked for me. We bought a fresh pineapple, bannanas (well, we always buy bannanas), and a bout six mangos. I went home and made fresh fruit smoothies all weekend, and thought lovingly of you.

John and Srah read your blog regularly. Sarah liked seeing a picture of Athena and John likes your commentaries.

]]> Comment on On Jacksonville by LT http://fitru.wordpress.com/2008/05/31/on-jacksonville-fl-30%c2%b019%e2%80%b210%e2%80%b3n-81%c2%b039%e2%80%b236%e2%80%b3w%ef%bb%bf-%ef%bb%bf3031944-8166/#comment-33 LT Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:53:14 +0000 http://fitru.wordpress.com/?p=54#comment-33 "my specialty remains a distant nebula of spouting second-hand information surrounded by a haze of choking self-importance and fueled by an intense, unstable core of searing ambition" Out of all the PCV blogs I have been reading, yours is the most entertaining, my favorite being the quote above. I'm a soon-t0-be volunteer after I graduate from USF in Florida. I hope you keep blogging about your experience, pictures sound good! “my specialty remains a distant nebula of spouting second-hand information surrounded by a haze of choking self-importance and fueled by an intense, unstable core of searing ambition”

Out of all the PCV blogs I have been reading, yours is the most entertaining, my favorite being the quote above. I’m a soon-t0-be volunteer after I graduate from USF in Florida. I hope you keep blogging about your experience, pictures sound good!

]]> Comment on Happy World by caroline http://fitru.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/happy-world/#comment-13 caroline Thu, 15 May 2008 02:11:16 +0000 http://fitru.wordpress.com/?p=10#comment-13 im glad we have your blog to read now. chris you're a really great writer. i enjoy reading the news from you. i am always connected to 2 or 3 sites trying to get my news fix. but even though the information is ever changing the tone is mostly the same. in the past i know we havent always seen eye to eye, and i know part of that has been me being uptight (its a bad habit of mine). But also because i think you have been more up to date and informed than i have been. And as i become more aware of our surroundings, and realize and acknowledge all the shit and injustices around the world, i feel like i am just now starting to understand things that you have said in the past that i probably didnt want to hear because i felt like it was cynical or negative. Now i feel like these are very important things that are going on in the present day, and despite how hard or depressing they may be to read and deal with (not always i must add) it is very important that we do. otherwise we will be following the same beaten path that we have been circling around for so many years. anyway. now that i feel like i have been rambling and trey asking me if i am still writing to you. i will leave you be. so to wrap it all up, i really enjoy what you have to say, and though im sure we probably dont see i to eye on every topic, i repect all that you have to say and am glad that you keep yourself as informed as you can. i wish more people would. keep writing. on here and otherwise. you have a talent. im glad we have your blog to read now.

chris you’re a really great writer.
i enjoy reading the news from you.
i am always connected to 2 or 3 sites
trying to get my news fix. but even
though the information is ever changing
the tone is mostly the same.

in the past i know we havent always seen eye to eye, and i know part of that has been me being uptight (its a bad habit of mine). But also because i think you have been more up to date and informed than i have been. And as i become more aware of our surroundings, and realize and acknowledge all the shit and injustices around the world, i feel like i am just now starting to understand things that you have said in the past that i probably didnt want to hear because i felt like it was cynical or negative. Now i feel like these are very important things that are going on in the present day, and despite how hard or depressing they may be to read and deal with (not always i must add) it is very important that we do. otherwise we will be following the same beaten path that we have been circling around for so many years.

anyway. now that i feel like i have been rambling and trey asking me if i am still writing to you. i will leave you be. so to wrap it all up, i really enjoy what you have to say, and though im sure we probably dont see i to eye on every topic, i repect all that you have to say and am glad that you keep yourself as informed as you can. i wish more people would.

keep writing. on here and otherwise. you have a talent.

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