Not enough material for a “real” post, so in brief:

* Construction continues on the house, but we’re coming down the home stretch and will hopefully arrive somewhere soon.  The new patio furniture looks great on the new deck under the new roof.  Just waiting for some finishing touches.

* The new students are here.  A surprising number of them have studied Italian – we’re all trying to figure out what the connection between Italian and Arabic is.  At the moment, a number of them are having a loud discussion-slash-argument in the hallway about when Ramadan starts.  (Like, down to the second).

* The President of Zambia is dead.  You may recall that a while back I posted about the fact that there seemed to be a as to his life status.  Well, apparently it’s finally been determined for certain: he’s dead.  Please make a note of it.

* Someone forwarded me this video.  I like it.

http://www.lucasgray.com/video/peacetrain.swf

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