( All I wanted was a cup of coffee )

Lets see- what's happened since my last update ( Read more... )

Al Gore polled second among potential Democratic presidential candidates. Maybe the party has some life left in it after all...on the other hand, Clinton polled first.

also...

DEMOCRACY HAS TRIUMPHED IN AFGHANISTAN!!http://www.harpers.org/sb-suppressed-

I'm sitting around the apartment so that someone will be here when our last roommate (apartment-mate?) gets here, so while I'm waiting here's the short version of what's happened the last few days ( Read more... )

ok- course selection is finally done. It was a typical AUC mess, but it's over.

The Courses:
Classical Arabic Literature in Translation
Accelerated Beginning Modern Standard Arabic
Egyptian Media
Contemporary Political Islam

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) -- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Tuesday accused critics of the Bush administration's Iraq and counterterrorism policies of trying to appease ''a new type of fascism ( Read more... )

( I should really be doing something more interesting... )

So, the last few days have been spent mostly wandering Cairo. I havn't had a whole lot to do since my survival arabic course didn't start until today. Yesterday I spend a good part of the day at a local 'cafe' watching some guys play chess, and learning the names of the pieces in arabic from them. I've been looking for a cheap set, but all I seem ( Read more... )

So, I made it to Egypt alive. Right now I'm sitting in a little coffee shop near the University that has AC and free wireless. I think I'm going to be spending a lot of my time here. The guys living in the apartment with me both seem cool, and fairly easy to live with. The apartment is great. Everything in it is a little old, but it's seven rooms ( Read more... )

Home friday.
Flying out the 21st.
Back December 23rd.