November 17, 2003

This is the slowest things have been, here. I've spent the last day or so doing little more than killing mosquitoes and deleting the (literally) thousands of listerv subscription confirmation emails that we've been spammed by Zionist hacker types. Fun, fun.

I tried to change my ticket, to leave about 2 hours from now. I almost pulled it off, too. However, in the ten minutes it took me to find a friend back home who'd put up their credit card for the reservation (I only have cash), Lufthansa sold the remaining seat on the flight to someone else. Bastards. I'm still going to go by the travel agency when I get to Jerusalem tomorrow, to see if they can help me at all. I seriously doubt they can, but it's worth a shot. There's literally nothing left for me to do, here, and it's starting to make me stir crazy. Especially at night. I get really spent, and exhausted, to a point where I can't sleep, and I just sit up awake. I need out of here. Big time. To top it off, the heater here in the office ran out of gas earlier today... So now it's back to freezing in here at night, which makes sleeping impossible, anyway. Fortunately, I'm leaving tomorrow.

Another ISMer was supposed to come today and let me train them on all the media stuff, so they could take over tomorrow. They never showed. So, as of tomorrow, the ISM Media Office will be empty, unless someone else steps up. Yay.

This will likely be the last entry for a while, possibly until I get home. My internet access will be much more scattered, once I leave the office. So, see you all when I see you.