A couple of days ago I went from referring to my 'overflowing social schedule' rather ironically to being fully booked for the week in less than 8 hours!
I just spent 10 hours in the office today. Have a quick half-an-hour turnaround before getting some dinner then heading off to a panto rehearsal. Tomorrow should be the same, except you can replace panto by violin teaching. Back to panto on Wednesday for a 'pirate special' rehearsal and I can't quite remember what I'm doing on Thursday.
Yesterday I went in early to do all the ops work then managed to get all sorts of admin and email sorted so felt a lot better to face the week without that interference. I pulled myself out of the office at 2:30 as I had promised myself, and managed to go for a swim and dry off in the sun whilst learning Arabic letters in the afternoon. Then I headed out to The Choo's place to have dinner, which I had offered to cook. I think that not being able to cook here in the LCM is making me miss it more than I expected.
Anyway, it was a good excuse to find a fruit&veg stall and actually buy something finally! I bought two kilos of potatoes and a HUGE bunch of parsley for 3 dinars (that's about 1 pound 20) and I got a free pomegranate thrown in. Then the chap also gave a pomegranate to my driver :-)
We then went to the nice bakery in town and I bought two miniature wholegrain loaves and a pack of mini buns (total volume: one French (medium) carrier bag) for 0.58 dinar!!! The bakery was really lovely inside, you can smell the fresh bread which is being baked in a traditional wood-burning oven and makes you want to buy the whole shop. This is supposed to be the chic-est (and therefore more expensive) bakery in town...
For dinner I made a frittata with blue cheese and peppers which we followed up with some rather nice desserts Matthew had bought, all served on my paper plates and eaten with his spoon collection on the loaned plastic garden table in his big echoey empty house. Hehe.
Otherwise, the well is going ok for a change! They are currently reaming it, now in the lower section which they are widening (this part of the process is called under-reaming). So nothing much for the geo to do (other than resolve persistent computer problems etc etc etc and talk about pressure predictions for the next section with the guys in Houston.
By the way, I have put up a few photos from the away day, which show performers from Ghadames (Libyan interior) performing traditional dances. I wish I had taken my camera, as I caught them playing football while they waited, still all dressed up in these robes!
That's it for now, I need to not stare at a computer or think for the next 1/4 hour, will just relax a bit and read a magazine. I wish I had my CDs, a bit of Ravel piano concerto would be nice right now...
Chow for now!
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