Hectic week, behind on email

Just a quick update for all of the people I owe emails to but haven't gotten around to -- this week (especially the last couple of days) has been veeeery busy.

This was the last week of the Question Box pilot for one (well, with Monday as a grace period), and there's been some confusion surrounding that for a variety of reasons, including a lot of key players being out of the country and hard to reach at the same time.

Also, Appfrica's in the process of moving to a new office -- incidentally located in the same building I just moved to. So that's involved a certain amount of going back and forth, packing things, moving things, etc.

And finally, a friend of mine here just got married yesterday, as I mentioned, but wasn't going -- it was to be a very small, private affair, which it was. At any rate, on Thursday (!) they asked me to photograph it. In a lucky coincidence, Jon had recently (mere days before) bought a rather nice Olympus DSLR from a guy we knew who had been traveling through. I borrowed it and the results were actually quite good. Much more convenient than my film one, as far as distributing the pictures and everything. Also, the total unavailability of ISO 800+ film in this country would have made film quite challenging without a flash. Anyway, it was nice to be involved, and I think the pictures turned out very well; they haven't seen all of them yet, but I'll have a CD waiting for them upon their return.

Anyway, it's all been very exhausting, and today I've done very little (except walk the perhaps ten minutes each way to get a baguette and some camembert for myself and my flatmate -- well worth the exertion, I assure you), and haven't even been on my computer until now.

Tomorrow I'll get more done, and get through my email backlog.

One last thing: Go Bears! Beat the Terps! The first Cal game of the season is tonight, at 5am my time. Ugh. Don't think I'll be watching it. But I'm still excited for it, and for everybody getting ready for their first shows of the season, and especially those about to do their first show at all in Cal Band. It had better be on Youtube now now! [to use the Ugandan expression that means actually soon; a single now means more of 'in the foreseeable future' than 'in a short and measurable length of time,' as in: "I am on my way, I'm coming now," meaning in an hour, versus "I'm coming now now," meaning in perhaps fifteen minutes.]