Slammed

I envisioned that my Peace Corps experience would involve a fair amount of boredom and looking for novel ways to entertain myself in a place with limited options (I brought and have bought enough books to serve most people a lifetime). But spending my evenings delving into new books is not the case. Not at all. Hopefully after next week my schedule will open up a bit and I can finally revisit “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” (a great book—if you haven’t already read it, I highly recommend doing so), but right now it is all work, all the time.

Between communicating with the speakers and setting the agenda for a volunteer conference on the 3rd, securing a venue, renting sound equipment, sending out invitations, and working out all the details for a Independence Day party on the 4th, editing a Peace Corps cookbook to have it ready to print, writing up an article for the quarterly Peace Corps Guatemala publication, buying new thread colors and preparing packets of thread to be given out in the communities for a huge order Nu’Kem just landed with Cemaco (Cemaco is a Guatemalan Bed, Bath & Beyond meets Home Depot big-box chain store that is going to stock our placemat settings, pillow cases, and table runners for a trial period. If they sell well, then they will become permanent items in their stores!) , and writing run-on sentences (I think this one is a personal record), I don’t have time to read for pleasure. I don’t have time to be bored.

I write all this to serve as an apology (more of an elaborate excuse really) to all my loyal blog readers (aka my mom) for my recent lack of posts. I’m sorry, but you’ll just have to be entertained with pictures for a while. But some substantive (as if any of my posts have substance) written posts are coming soon…I promise.