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HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!!
Today is my last full day in Kuwait ? T & I bug out tomorrow morning early on the BA flight to London, then off to Boston and home. In the past week, we have visited with friends, hosted dinners and lunches, enjoyed the Embassy party hosted by John Berry, ate Christmas dinner at the AUK Diner (food was superb) and walked a lot.… Read the rest
Nice dinner last night at Qasr Nakheel, Palm Palace. The evenings of sharing meals are a big deal here, as there isn?t much else to do and these serve as R&R sessions for us all. I?ll miss this gang ? good people trying to do good work in an environment that needs a great deal of rehabbing.… Read the rest
T arrived yesterday and is already on the go ? surprise? Not!! She of course served as courier/Sherpa, so several people get some goodies ? books, keyboard, etc.
My library colleagues are hosting a ?goodbye social? for me today at 3pm in the Library ?… Read the rest
Yin, Yang, Boomerang!!
What?s that, you say? That is me, beginning the ?processing out? process here in marvelously-undecipherable Kuwait. AUK has its own mini-bureaucracy ? had to get each department head to sign-off that I wasn?t absconding with anything the university owns, including my desk (desk?),… Read the rest
Amna back at work this morning ? seems okay ? life goes on? She will be Interim Library Director after I depart, so we?ll spend some time together so I can help her as much as possible before bugging out ?… Read the rest
8 a.m.: Bumping along towards the 18th when things come to a halt here for winter break. The university will close, as the 3-day Eid at the end of the Hajj month and the Christmas holidays converge together this year. Most folks are bugging out ?… Read the rest