April 9-Today was the last officially recognized national holiday of the Easter season. Literally translated, annar í páskum means "the other Easter." I suppose that makes as much sense as "Easter Monday," which what it is called by the few people who celebrate it in the States. For us it meant that the campus remained quiet and mostly deserted and that the kids had one final day of relaxation before they went back to school.
Sally got to work on the developmental economics class that she will be teaching in May. She had put some thought into it previously, but now that her natural resource economics class was over she could put more effort towards this next course.
Meanwhile, I got to work cleaning up our apartment. After we had had so many people in and out over the past few weeks, it was a mess. Thankfully, it is still quite small, so it was not that big of a job. Once that was over, though, I took a big breath and then opened my e-mail accounts. Since the Easter week is not recognized as a holiday in the States, people had continued to send e-mails to me and there were over a hundred new e-mails to go through. Thankfully, most did not concern me and I could junk them, but there were still plenty of messages that I had to answer.
After that and a few other on-line work items were taken care of, I took another big breath and plunged into this blog. Two weeks behind! Ugh! We had done so much during those two weeks that I knew it was going to take a while to get caught up. Thankfully, Sally had written drafts for the first two days of my family's visit, so I was able to edit them and add in pictures, so that was relatively easy. I figured that if I could finish three blog entries a day, I could be caught up in a week. Yeah, right........
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