It's Nearly Mid-July and Nothing's Spontaneously Combust Yet...Izaay?
I don't get it. It is now July 9th and the weather in Cairo has suddenly turned *pleasant* the past few days. I've actually managed to sleep with no a/c the past couple of nights now and it's starting to creep me out. I just have visions of August rolling up like a giant fireball crashing through the streets of Cairo, 'aams spontaneously combusting on street corners...poof! I've been thinking of getting out of dodge at the end of the month to do a ten-day Vipassana meditation course somewhere (anywhere), but this whole job search thing is making it awfully hard to plan anything. At the same time, that would be precisely the reason I could really use ten days of silent meditation right about now.
It was a fairly uneventful weekend, with the exception of the Cairo Scholars dinner that I helped to organize on Friday night. We had about twenty mostly fresh faces show up, which, for those of us who are crusty old-timers in comparison, was a real treat. Invigorating, really. After dinner, we went out to a private party in Mohandiseen (or "MoHo" as some of our more capricious friends have taken to call it, I don't know why) which was so gay, my eyes hurt from all the sparkly rhinestones. It was fabulous.
Btw, the picture above is a view from a restaurant in beautiful Al-Azhar Park, which was designed, built and has been administered since last spring by the Aga Khan Foundation. It's an impeccably manicured fluffy green grass and milky white marble haven which I don't get to visit enough. I think the Aga Khan Foundation is handing over administration of the park to the Egyptian government soon, which is all the more reason for me to spend time there sooner rather than later.
It was a fairly uneventful weekend, with the exception of the Cairo Scholars dinner that I helped to organize on Friday night. We had about twenty mostly fresh faces show up, which, for those of us who are crusty old-timers in comparison, was a real treat. Invigorating, really. After dinner, we went out to a private party in Mohandiseen (or "MoHo" as some of our more capricious friends have taken to call it, I don't know why) which was so gay, my eyes hurt from all the sparkly rhinestones. It was fabulous.
Btw, the picture above is a view from a restaurant in beautiful Al-Azhar Park, which was designed, built and has been administered since last spring by the Aga Khan Foundation. It's an impeccably manicured fluffy green grass and milky white marble haven which I don't get to visit enough. I think the Aga Khan Foundation is handing over administration of the park to the Egyptian government soon, which is all the more reason for me to spend time there sooner rather than later.
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