Blog Update
August 26, 2007
After two weeks in Dubai…I am no longer feeling jet lagged...have some sense of direction…starting to say “yeah-yeah-yeah” and “no worries” is sure to follow…have a bed and a chair…know what I am teaching this semester…have identified my favorite Italian restaurant and the best tiramisu…have not found a bread bakery…have found an Iranian bakery that makes cream puffs…cannot find the left shift key on the ThinkPad...find myself really annoyed by having to monitor cell phone usage as I have to keep purchasing Wasel recharge cards…enjoy hearing the call to prayer from the mosque next door…love going in the entry to my tower past the perfume shop, which always puts out incense in their entry…have made spaghetti sauce and had dinner with new friends on a newly delivered table—the only one who possesses such a thing as yet…am joyfully awaiting the arrival in 11 days of my first visitor—Melanie—who is going to bring me a suitcase full of Soy Vay and Libby’s canned pumpkin…took a 35-minute walk in the 105+degree heat and found myself wishing I had bought a parasol in Tokyo…have ridden in taxis driven by Bengalis, Pakistanis, Arabs, and East Indians and have both laughed and nearly cried… have looked at 15 different furniture stores and not purchased anything…have been to Ikea at least 10 times…know my way around the mall I live above …have found Starbucks and internet access downstairs—but no chai…haven’t missed TV at all (but that will change as soon as football starts)…have already watched Pride and Prejudice—thanks Meredith…have lost weight, even with the tiramisu and cream puffs…have talked to Ava Grace on the phone…have limited myself to 10-minute calls with Melanie… have lost a dear friend and had no one to talk with about it here who could understand the measure of that loss…have been amazed and dismayed…have missed all the people I love more than I can begin to describe.
Classes begin a week from today.
2 comments:
Linda,
Mer told me you had a blog.. Google'd you and here we are! This is great and I look forward to all of your adventures. Let me know if you need some tea from Nashville. :) Miss your face, but am glad I get to hear your stories. Chris
WOW. I will burn more DVDs stat. OK, I lie...after the summit. (Oh how I miss you being in charge of that - ha!) It's the same wicked pace here. Nuts. Need chai? Saw Robert today & he says Hi - he's making smoothies now, not chais! Hang in...miss you all the time.
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