some guy in lebanon

You’ll find a deck of pictures from my trip to the Cedar Reserve in Shouf, Lebanon, here: http://williamcurtisdonovan.com/photos/?album=1&gallery=10 - the first half of the gallery is of pictures on the way from Beirut to the Reserve, with some amazing pictures of the Shouf area where Karma is from. There will be a second gallery shortly [...]

Leaving Portland - headed by car to New York. I fly out of JFK tomorrow evening… I arrive in Lebanon mid-day Monday EST, or around 9:30PM local time. HOPEFULLY, Nick will be at the airport to pick me up (hint hint)…
Not really interested in sounding dramatic, so instead I’ll leave you with this wonderful website, [...]

To begin what is really an extended diatribe, consider this quote from Nathan Gardels’ interview with George Soros on Friday:

U.S. influence will wane. It has already declined. For the past 25 years, we have been running a constant current account deficit. The Chinese and the oil-producing countries have been running a surplus. We have consumed [...]

People ask me why I’m leaving the country - why I’m going to Lebanon. My usual reply is, “Big fish, small pond/Small Fish, big pond.” The general theory being, I can stay in America and attempt to break into journalism by getting a Masters and fighting my way up the ladder at local, regional, and [...]

Thanks to the generocity of Marc Sirois (perhaps because of all the whiskey I bought him last October?), I will offically be leaving the US for Beirut on November 2nd (which is like 5 weeks from now…). I will begin my time there as an intern for the Daily Star, but there is a pretty [...]

Crazyness. We arrived in DC a few days ago - we survied the car trip (Plain, Zeke, Leigh, me, and all our stuff in the tiny little car), and have spent the passed few days sleeping and partying. Patriots lost last night, which was horrible, but other than that things have been great. Leaving for [...]

Woke up at 2, went to Boston and got Leigh, had dinner with my Grandmother, sleepy sleepy… night!

I have spent the past 24 hours doing absolutely nothing. I did, however, manage to play “Race for the Heisman” on NCAA 06′ for XBox, and I took Virginia Tech to the Rose Bowl, beating USC, and won the Heisman as a freshman. My life is a wasteland. Luckily, Leigh will be arriving sometime on [...]

Ok, so I was having too much fun to post last night, so I’ll recap: Yesterday I had to get a Hep A shot for Jordan, and get my eyes checked. That’s it. That’s all I did. It’s vacation - Leave me alone.
Last night Zach “Tiny” Cutler and that funny girl he hangs out with, [...]

Whatup gang, I’m gonna use this Blog as best I can to keep everyone up to date on my trip to Jordan. I’m starting it now though in order to capture the madness of the next two weeks. And oh yes, it will be madness. More to come…