Day 162

Monday June 30th,

Today I finally finished updating the blog at work. Yes, I am very productive at work. It was about 12000 words altogether, so enjoy reading it. I heard from Megan that Chris was showing up on Tuesday, which kind of frightened me, as I didn't know when his plane was arriving and had no way of getting him to the apartment. However, I was finally able to make online contact with Chris and found out it was next Tuesday, which was a great relief. It should be a lot of fun to have Chris around. At work it was the last day for Scott, the presidential intern. He is going back to the states and then looking for gold in Alaska. No joke. I was helping him decide if after he gets done with the gold hunt if he should come back to Cairo or go to Abu Dhabi. I voted for Abu Dhabi. Because of Scott's departure the DDC bought cake and had a little party for him. I had Mountain Dew out of a glass bottle. It didn't taste like Mountain Dew. The cake was super-rich and I could only have one piece. That should be an indicator of how much Egyptians love their sugar. Also because of Scott's departure I get to move to his Desk and he gave me the keys to the office. Basically I got a promotion. Too bad it had to come at the expense of Scott leaving. A real stand-up guy, and I will miss shooting the shit with him. Hopefully I'll get to see him again in some manner or the other.