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Jan. 31st, 2014 04:19 pmThere are, it seems, a ridiculous number of dental schools in Central and South America. I've got a list of 800 dental schools and it seems like most of them are in Brazil, Mexico, or some other place that means its web site will either be in Spanish or in Portuguese. Fortunately I can mostly figure out where to find contact information in those languages; I gave up on the German ones because they're all medical schools and I don't know the German for "dentistry". I think it's a multi-word term that's abbreviated ZMK, but I could be wrong about that. I was also wrong about the Indonesian sites; those were easy once I figured out that "Fakultas Kedokteran Gigi" means "Dental School". Generally speaking, if a language uses the alphabet I'm accustomed to, I can figure it out. Except for German.
The reason I got saddled with this list is so I can send them spam, pretty much. We're having a continuing education course in April and my boss wants an international audience. So I'm supposed to be finding contact info for all of these dental schools so I can send them the course brochure and registration form. I do NOT want to know what my inbox will look like when a third of the email addresses bounce (although 600 schools down the list I've only got 165 email addresses, so it could be worse).
In other news, last night I stayed up until 1:00 this morning. Overall that was a bad idea, but I was having fun. I was assembling my Lego Millennium Falcon (the reward for losing all that weight), up until I did something wrong and couldn't figure it out. When I looked at the clock I said "Oh, that's why." Hopefully when I get home tonight, I'll be able to fix whatever the problem is, and then I'll have an entire Lego Millennium Falcon. I can't remember the last time I bought myself a new toy and didn't mean that figuratively.
The reason I got saddled with this list is so I can send them spam, pretty much. We're having a continuing education course in April and my boss wants an international audience. So I'm supposed to be finding contact info for all of these dental schools so I can send them the course brochure and registration form. I do NOT want to know what my inbox will look like when a third of the email addresses bounce (although 600 schools down the list I've only got 165 email addresses, so it could be worse).
In other news, last night I stayed up until 1:00 this morning. Overall that was a bad idea, but I was having fun. I was assembling my Lego Millennium Falcon (the reward for losing all that weight), up until I did something wrong and couldn't figure it out. When I looked at the clock I said "Oh, that's why." Hopefully when I get home tonight, I'll be able to fix whatever the problem is, and then I'll have an entire Lego Millennium Falcon. I can't remember the last time I bought myself a new toy and didn't mean that figuratively.
