DEAR ALIZARIN: Green with envy

I am so envious of everything about you right now:  surf lessons, living in paradise (minus gecko shit), hanging out as the cool instructor for future documentarians, and your very engaging and witty prose!   Meanwhile, I struggle to write this response through the cloud of my stuffy head and the rumbling of this incessant cough.

 

But, as my "Daily OM" email instructs, I will not dwell in my jealously but rejoice in your good fortune (which of course, will soon become my good fortune as I join you in lovely Samara).   Just as this morning I did not let the complete lack of organization for the instructional planning meeting invoke my anger.  It is ok that I spent a half hour last night trying to figure out where the meeting was through a volley of convoluted emails.  Then, I show up at said location promptly at 8am, only to end up chatting with the other stragglers at the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf at around 10am since the library where we were to have a room reserved was closed until 10am and did not have a room reserved for us.  Finally, around 10:50am we settle into the faculty lounge on campus that the organizers did not want to use because they claimed we would not get work done on campus.  Well, the rest of the afternoon, in the faculty lounge ON CAMPUS, turned out to be very productive.  Imagine that.   Yes, I am quite pleased how I took the higher road of not being annoyed, well, at least not publicly.

 

Four more days until vacation!! 

 

Meanwhile, please hold the gecko and creepy crawler stories as I don't want to build up anxiety for my trip. 

 

Love,

Lychee