Hooray for normal

[clevermanka]

I'm finally back to a normal workday here and it's blissful. Ahh.

One of our grad students went to Egypt and the U.A.E. during the holiday break. We just spent the past hour paging (on my computer) through his photos of the trip with the other secretaries. We used my computer because I have appropriate background music for the slide show. Oh, it looked amazing. Beautiful. He said he encountered no anti-American sentiment and everyone was really friendly--sometimes a little too friendly. *sigh* Wanna go.

He brought me back a charming mother-of-pearl inlay trinket box. You know the kind. It's lovely. I'm trying to decide what to keep in it. I want to leave it at the office so it doesn't disappear with my other trinket boxes at home. Speaking of, I found a trinket box on eBay by one of my favorite self-representing artists, and I did not purchase it. How good am I? Very.

I've started Intermittent Fasting (every-other-day-fast), joining adammaker on this particular science experiment. I got through my first full-day fast yesterday just fine. I even exercised! So FYI, to anyone who's considering asking me out for lunch or dinner, I'll be fasting on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. I'm not going to bother attempting a fast on the weekends because really. I'm not kidding myself to think I will stick to something that denies me the option of coffee on a weekend morning.

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[badbha.livejournal.com]

Egypt and the U.A.E. are absolutely the best Arabic countries I have ever been to (partly because no one pointed a weapon at me in either of them). I know the lovely dynamics of being an American have changed in the past few years, but they remain two of the main places I want to re-visit with time to make my own schedules.