Woohoo weekend!

In an effort to update my blog more often, I risk boring you with the little details that you don't really care about. Eh, we'll see how this blog blitz goes and then maybe over the summer I'll try to find a happy medium :-)

The weekend was so good. I should mention that the weekend was destined to go well, since last Tuesday I finally got my lazy butt to Qatar Distribution Company to renew my liquor permit. Thursday night we went to the Intercontinental Hotel for our faculty and staff party, then I sat on Ramzi's couch and watched a movie - super chill way to end the craziness that was last week.

On Friday, I found cute cheap patio furniture at Carrefour (if you need a comparison, its like Super-Duper Walmart) and spent the afternoon watching Love Actually while putting it together. Also while putting it together, I realized that my Jeep came with a whole set of tools that I never knew about - how cool is that?! That night I had people over to drink my newly purchased booze and sit around my newly purchased patio table. Then we went downstairs to Silvia's apartment for the most ridiculous party. There are pictures but I would need permission from people to post them. And possibly risk having my blog censored by Q-Tel. But - here's a good one from the party. Tim, myself, Ramzi, and Ryan...

I'm gonna miss my boys so much!












Anyway, after finally getting to bed around 3:30am, Ryan and I woke up at 6:30 on Saturday to go to campus and proctor the ACT test for a group of 200 high school boys. They were not taking the test seriously at all (I don't even know why mobile phones are allowed in the room!), but it was worth the getting up early - I got QR300, free starbucks, and the chance to teach a couple of Qatari boys why its a bad idea to mess with white women.

After the test we went to the mall, where I picked up my ring from the jewelry cleaners - now, not only does it sparkle, but they bent it back into a proper ring shape! Then Ryan and I went to the high school botball competition that is sponsored by CMU-Q, but alas we had no idea what was going on and were both pretty much asleep. I went home, took a nap, and woke up just in time for the NFL draft to start!

I watched until the Steelers pick, which happened around 10:30pm Doha time, and then had to go to sleep. I liked the draft - it caught me up on all the NFL and college news of the past year in just 4 hours. On another note, for those of you who saw it, how impressive was Brady Quinn? Poised, articulate, and good-natured in each of the three interviews over the course of the first 21, even though after the Dolphins at #9 he had to be some combination of worried and pissed. It is so unfortunate that he finally went to Cleveland, 'cause now I have to hate him for the rest of the year. Oh well, it was a nice couple of hours.