I've gotten really lazy with blip and really bad these days at keeping up on it. I’ve been busy. Really really busy. People here are tired of me saying that and I kind of am too, but its true.

I’ve been working at Mercy Corps more and more trying to get things ready for the Presentation today with the Program Manager’s, those are the people who will actually be using this new filing system. So, my boss and I really wanted thing so go well and be prepared. That in turn means more hours at work getting the right things created and printed out as well as making sure all of the electronic aspects of the project are ready as well.

We had the meeting and my boss ended up speaking through about ¾ of it, which was great. For this specific meeting, it needed to be him so that he could explain more specific details that I couldn’t have done. There were about 25 people there, which made me a bit more nervous then I would have though I would be, so even more reason why I was happy that my boss did a lot of the presenting.

It went well, minus a few technological glitches. Everyone seemed to understand and I like the new system. The hard part comes now in working to make sure it gets used and people start really applying it to their work, which my boss wants them to do starting NOW.

Arabic is the same. I’ve been missing more classes these days due to work, but so far I’ve been able to keep up and my professors are being very nice about it. They might secretly hate me, but they haven’t shown it, so I’m appreciative.

Some days do feel like there really are just not enough hours in the day, but overall I guess I would rather feel that way then feel like there are too many. I have to start writing my Master’s Thesis as well since it’s due in May/June and I haven’t even started or thought much about it. I should probably get on that…but again…when do I actually fit that in?!?


P.S. I posted more photos of Umm Qays on Flicker:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/90572684@N08/sets/