The electricity came on last evening at our compound at about 6! Whoo hoo! Good thing, too, 'cause it's a sweaty day. Not extremely hot (only 36 or 37C), but humid. I have fled to an air conditioned office this afternoon, just because I'm tired and the heat was starting to make me grumpy! One of the wonderful things about living in this internet age is that I can listen to one of my favorite radio stations from home online! I just heard that it's -10C, and -20C with the wind chill! Man, what I wouldn't do for a little snow around here!
Yesterday was a pretty hot day, too - a three shower day, in fact. I quit working a little early (at 5pm), and took a nice warm shower. By the time the troops were gathered for Elizabeth's birthday dinner, I had worked up a sweat again :( Oh well, everyone else had, too, so it doesn't seem so bad!
We all wanted pizza, so we started out at our usual pizza place... we sat for a while, and finally someone came to take our drink order. After ordering our drinks, we found out that their generator was broken, so they couldn't make any food! So we all piled back into the truck (9 white folks, plus Richard - 5 white faces in the back of the pick up, and 5 in the extended cab!) and drove to a place by the River which I heard had pizza. We were quite the sight driving through town in that truck all together! But it was great fun. Somehow, I had become the expedition leader, so I was glad that I was finally able to find some pizza for everyone!
By the time we got home, it was almost 9 pm, but I wasn't finished sweating - had to do my usual bed-time chores. At least my little cat is starting to come along on all the chores with me these days! I had a nice chat with our night guard as I gave him his tea, because he was telling me all about Zane's nocturnal habits!
Jackie and I watched the final episode of Season 1 of Heroes last night, as well. I'm really enjoying that series, and I'm looking forward to starting Season 2 sometime this week! Someone also brought me some dvds with some episodes of ER, Jeopardy and Oprah that had been recorded off tv in Minnisota a few years ago! Random, I know, but Jackie and I had a great time a few nights ago watching ER, though I think the best part was the commercials :)
Today has also been a crazy day! Started out by bringing Richard to the airport and going to the Immigration desk/office there to register one of the guests who's come to visit (everyone has to register with the central gov't within three days of arriving). It's a process that involves a lot of photocopying, and $65. And I do it a lot for various people, so all of the guys in the immigration office there are getting to know me quite well. My friend that always remembers my name wasn't there, though - he must have been in the arrivals section today! I had to leave Richard there, so I said farewell to him, braved the motorbike taxi drivers in the parking lot who were cheering me on as I backed the truck out, and came home to a house full here.
There is an enthronement of a new bishop in the Anglican church here tomorrow, so people are coming from far and near to take part in that whole thing. So there was a steady stream of people in and out of the guesthouse this morning, coming to visit everyone and anyone! So I've fled the guesthouse to get a bit of space... plus there's some cool air in here! I think I might just bring in a pillow and have a little nap on the floor here... except that I need to do the things that I'm procrastinating doing... photocopying some back-translation, thinking about the schedule for our upcoming workshop, organizing my handouts to print, entering data for mileage charges or generator costs... oh, goodness, I've got a few things to get done yet this afternoon, so I'd better get at it... even though what I really think I need is a nap...
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