Man, was I homesick yesterday. It was a struggle. But I woke up this morning feeling like a million bucks. I guess it's just gonna come and go, and that's ok. Thanks, Mom, for the pep talk yesterday; those are always good.
Yesterday was a beautiful day here at "The Deid", although hot. It was a busy day and we saw a lot of people come in and out of our doors. I was exhausted by the time I left, so I went and got two movies at the library and settled into my room for some mindless entertainment. I got Hotel Rwanda (which I haven't watched yet) and Ratatouille. The library here has thousands of movies, but it is pretty time consuming to go through them all, so I just stroll through and see if anything jumps out at me. I wanted to watch something uplifting yesterday because I was in a bit of a "mood", and Ratatouille was the closest thing I could find. Cute movie, great message.
Today is kind of a slow day - Sunday is the day that a lot of people have the day off and when people head "downtown". Kehinde went today and got some [really weird] gold jewelry. Usually somebody from our squadron (EFSS) goes on the weekend and whoever is driving invites people along to fill the seats. They will either go down to the market area or to one of the hotels in Doha where you can pay to use their pools/private beaches. Some people just go to get a meal and catch a movie or to hit the mall. I hope to get to go soon - I am going to hang low on my day off tomorrow and get caught up but perhaps in the next week or so, I'll be able to boogie on down and see the places everybody keeps talking about.
The sun sets here about 5:00, which is not bad because by the time I get off work it is cooler out. The nights are cool here, so it is always comforbale to sit outside. I feel lucky to have gotten the shift I did because I will get to miss most of the hottest part of the day while at work.
I haven't had the best access to Facebook, so sorry, Megan, that I have missed out on the past two weeks of "what food is Megan's baby today?" We have access to e-mail systems here in the office, but the only way to access FB is on the wireless in the Bra, and it is quite slow so it takes too long to load. I usually give up before it finishes loading. I am certainly not complaining, the connectivity here is awesome and I have so many opportunities to make contact with the people I care about...just will have to find another way to finish out Meg's pregnancy from all the way over here.
I got two pieces of mail today! A card from Tracy and a beautiful piece of artwork from Maris...that kid is a future picasso. I have a big bulletin board beside my desk, and they are displayed prominently. Thanks, girls. And yes, Tracy, I know how to get my mail now. ;-)
A lot of people have been asking me what kinds of things I am missing so they can stuff a care package, and right now I can't think of much but as I do I will write it down and try to post a list sometime in the next week or so. Thanks much for thinking of me and we appreciate everything that comes through our door (even those Girl Scout cookies, devilish as they are).
I miss NPR!!! I feel so out of the loop right now, not having my daily news programs to get me to/from work. We don't have any access to streaming media here (that's right, no Grey's Anatomy either) so I can't listen online. So I've been trying to read CNN daily but it's just not the same. At all. Thankfully I did download about 30 episodes of "This American Life" and "All Songs Considered" (as well as a bunch of New Yorker short stories and BBC radio documentaries) so I feel like I have a tiny bit of home with me, but I still miss my morning news.
xo
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