Vartavar was quite something this year as I had to hike across town in the middle of the day. If I had remembered it was "bucket day" when I was making the appointment I would have never agreed to go. I was determined not to get splashed, and walking across central Yerevan through backstreets, alleys, busy areas, all the while avoiding balconies as much as possible gave me a true taste of what a war zone is like...

As for our traitor Lena who supported an Australian over an Armenian from Argentina in the Wimbleton final, I must warn you all from trying to talk sense into her. Even though Nalbandian made it to the finals of the Wimbleton, the first time in open history that someone makes it to the Wimbleton finals on his first try, Lena insisted she doesn't care, she supports Hewitt instead.