Another day...

Good afternoon!

I am finally over my sickness after having awoken drenched in sweat Saturday night, apparently breaking the fever. Luckily despite feeling like death warmed over, I managed to have a delightful weekend in Rhode Island. Grilling, drinking, Newport-ing, boating, Block Island-ing, boating, all contributed to a wonderous time.

Meanwhile I've been working 10-2 at GSAS, then at RLL with Professor Carpenter every day until around 4. I'm getting paid for 80 hours working on the department's self-study, a mess of data and description spanning hundreds of pages. Given his fancying everything printed out, I hope to have single-handedly caused the death of at least one major rain forest by the end of my work there. The work nonetheless gives me an interesting insight into the department going-ons and what apparently is very confidential information. I'd be very curious to see Slavic's self-study from last year and see what they hope to accomplish in the next couple of years.

Working in Romance has once again rekindled the flame of my love of romance languages - I just can't seem to keep up with Arabic, and at this point may just beef up my Portuguese skills and really get my Catalan grammar down. *Sigh*

Seventy-four days until I arrive in Barcelona...scary. The latest news Andorra-wise is that I have received my teaching assignment. I'll be teaching 16-18 year olds (thank god they're a bit older) at the Escola Andorrana de Batxillerat. I've looked at it on Google Earth and it seems I'm teaching in a "village" of the Parish of Andorra la Vella, just southwest down the river from the capital. Excellent. I still have to do a shit ton in terms of figuring out my research, namely wtf i am doing and clearing it with the IRB. bleh.

Pride is this weekend - fun stuff. We'll be brunching chez Fleming-Marino. I'm providing a fruit salad in a Whale-shaped watermelon bowl I plan to carve, as well as a Smoked Salmon Frittata. That night Kristen is hosting a last hurrah party for her work friends, so hopefully I can keep things under control and show up to that. The weekend after is our housewarming it seems, then the following I am going home for my family's "Luau" summer party. Should be interesting...

I'd best finish up these Escalate cases and then head over to Lyons. TTFN!