I leave for the states for 2 weeks tomorrow morning. Taxes, the dentist, immunization shots, condo rental, family/relatives, friends, a grant proposal, and various other odds and ends await my arrival. It will be a nice break for a couple of weeks, though weather-wise, it is most probably out of the frying pan into the fire. Boston summers can be brutal too. What awaits my return back to Yerevan Aug 10?? Friends with remodeled apartments (see the previous 99 logs ;-)), several 1st rate chess tournaments including the Armenian Championship followed by the World Team Championship to be held in Yerevan, the culmination of the 1700th Christianity celebrations, the anticiapted opening of teh vernisage website, as well as the late summer/early fall and the best time for fresh produce in Armenia...Several of my American-Armenian friends are contemplating and/or planning long term or indefinite moves to Armenia. There is indeed alot going on here.