I just lost a log I was very happy with about the elections and about seeing Raffi Niziblian's last night and my take on the movie Bowling for Columbine, as well as what I am working on with all this free time I have. I am too demoralized to try to rewrite it. It amazes me that computers are so buggy that windows still freeze, and pages don't load, and even if you can go back and everything you typed is gone. So I will just retell the part about what I am working on...

I am putting together a book that will probably be called 101 Armenian Monasteries. People joke that all there is to see in Armenia is monasteries, and although that is far from true, there is no denying that the rich monastic architecture of Armenia is amazing, and sets it apart. I don't actually know that the contents of the book will be exactly that, it is just a fun title. Certainly there will be churches as well as monasteries, there will probably be more than 101 for that matter, and there will be pages with photos of things other than churches and monasteries as well. I finished going through my over 16,000 photos and sorting them into seperate folders for each place/theme. There will be no text, just photos, so all I have to do now is narrow down the photos for each place, which is the hardest task I am faced with by far, and then lay it out. Places like Kobayr, Tatev and Haghartsin, which in one photo can convey their magnificence I can't go wrong on. That is not to say choosing photos for them is easy, but it is the little gems like Teghenyats and Arates that no one or two photos can capture, but which you can spend an hour exploring and discovering and being amazed that probably less than a dozen foreigners like yourself will visit them this year. Hopefully laying it out properly will take only a couple of weeks, and then we'll see if I can successfully get it published.