Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Long overdue update

Yeah, yeah, I know... I never update the blog. Well, here you go, I'm throwing you all a bone.

It's been a really crazy month so far. The Ag project review is over now, and the 45th anniversary crap will be done in a week. Then all I have to worry about is installation of new volunteers and I can go on vacation. I'm not sure where I'll go. I might go with some of our wadabi friends to their annual festival. They might even let me paint my face and dance with them, that would be something! I also thought about going back to Benin, it would be a good time, and I already know how it's all done. We'll see what happens.

Things are going good in general. Kevin and I had our birthdays a week and a half ago. We went to Byblo's. It's a Lebonese restaurant. We had all the Babaganoush, Homos, Toubouli, etc we could eat. It was good times. Everyone is also coming in for Swear in, so there will be much good food made and lots of games played and hanging out done...

I also have started reading a bit again. (It's so hard to do in Niamey, there's so much going on) I've started the Golden Compass, part if the "His Dark Materials" series, which is being made into a movie that will come out around Christmas. I want to read it before the movie comes out, or I know I'll never make it through the book. So far it's incredible. In the book, every person has what's called a daemon. It's like a familiar, or an animal entity that is part of you. On the website, you can take a quiz and be told what form your daemon would take. It also allows friends and family to agree or disagree and alters the daemon based upon that as well. I'm not big on quizzes, but this one intrigues me. Please take time to answer the questions and I promise I won't put more stupid quizes up here.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Very interesting!!!!!!! Keep me up on how this all works.

Love and miss ya!

Aunt Jenny

Unknown said...

Hi,
I tried to take the little test but was confused!!! I think I got it figured out though. I took it several times. Sorry. Really miss you!!! Love you, Mom

Bishniak said...

Howdy Captain, I did the "is this Djimi's Deamon" thing and I changed it to a wolf. I don't know if that's accurate in your eyes, but i think a wolf is pretty cool

Anonymous said...

Hi, Jimmy~

It's great to see that things are going well still! The Golden Compass is a great series-- I read the first one in a SciFi class at KSU and finished the other two our last summer as Cool Cats-- hope you enjoy them as much as I did!

Have a great week!

~Melissa

Anonymous said...

Have a great Thanksgiving.

Love and miss you.

Aunt Jenny

Sara Bishop said...

I hope you had a good Thanksgiving!!

Sara

Bishniak said...

101 Days and counting, Sir.