I had dinner tonight with a friend, and when asked how my day was, I had to puzzle over it for a few minutes. The sub question to "how was your day" around here is always "what unexpected challenge did you have to meet today?".
It actually took me quite some few minutes (oh, sorry, there's my East African English coming through again!) to realize that nothing unexpected happened today. Or maybe I'm just starting to expect the unexpected, so when the unexpected occurs, I've already expected it.
It was really amazing today. I had two meetings set up with two different language teams to touch base about how they're doing on their literacy plans. Both of the meetings actually happened, more or less around the appointed times. Lunch was exactly what I had planned. The computer which is broken is still broken, as is parts of the network, as expected. It was hot and dusty, just as I expected. Everyone came to work when they were supposed to. Zane was his zaney little self, begging for chicken bones all day. The generator was turned on and off as it was supposed to. The water was flowing out of the taps. The toilet was backing up, as it has been in the past few days... really, nothing out of the ordinary occurred. The text message that I sent to my friend about what I was bringing over for dinner arrived in her phone as we were polishing off the meal, just as expected.
In a way, it's a bit disconcerting. Does having nothing unexpected happen in a day mean that I'm way too used to the odd way things work around here?! I sure do hope it doesn't continue - I sure don't want to start getting bored!
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