A mosquito woke me at 5 this morning. I don't know how the little bugger got in! I killed it, but couldn't go back to sleep, and now I am pooped. At least I finally used my excersize bike (5km, which is pathetic I know, but a start). My dad arrived last night at 1:30am. Since his friend was picking him up anyway, I did not go. He'll come over tonight.

So on the way to work most mornings I walk past the parliament, which has some nice white mulberry trees. So as I go by I can pick one or two hanging over the sidewalk. Quite nice. The cherries which are in season now are fantasic. What else? Well work as I predicted, is just crazy this week. I am already going crazy and it is just tuesday morning. Day after day of meetings, wearing suits, and no time for real work even which just piles up. What saves my sanity is knowing it is a 4 day week, and we have plans to head out of town this weekend (to Shamshadin). Jack (Hagop) will be here from Australia, so hopefully he'll join us...

I just got a 5mb email this morning. Not something pleasant in Armenia. So I switched to webmail to see who it was from, and it is from my (speaking of the tasmanian devil continent) Australian cousins. Some of the pics are over 1mb each. What is remarkable is that they are the grainiest, worst quality digital pics you can imagine. Well, nobody can accuse Sabrina of being a computer geek, that much is certain.

And yes, it is now officially 4 years that I am a resident of Armenia. I had no idea how long I would stay when I came... a year, a month... and here I am, still loving it.