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Today

9:05am IST Tuesday 11 October 2005

From yesterday:

1. get my phone charged
2. get a phone charger
3. * upload pictures from yesterday
4. pay credit card
5. send postcards
6. finish _if the Buddha dated_
7. release the book somewhere
8. make a bookcrossing entry

Hmmm. I visited my credit card thing online, but they say they are unable to assist me at this time; please call 800-xxxxxxxxx and I'm like, "wtf?" is it my card or their system??

Okay; I'm going to escape my computer soon. Go secure a charger for my phone, send postcards and contact Rami at Pal Vision.

9:32pm IST Tuesday 11 October 2005

Cool day today. Helped Rami by writing a first and 1.5 draft of a grant proposal for a cool project he had in his mind, but hadn't gotten down on paper. Also edited a pretty well-written paper about the results of a youth training program to thank the Ford Foundation for their grant money.

Met Noor (who will give me an arabic textbook tomorrow) and Mustafa, who told me why it's so challenging to have an Israeli-Palestinian discussion anywhere in this area. Basically the checkpoints and culture won't allow the two groups to mix.

Bounced emails back and forth with Hitomi for about 1.5 hours.

After that, Sarah, Asa and I spent a lot of time looking out the window, watching the activity of soldiers running around and riding horses with flashing red and blue lights. Pretty neat. In a scary messed up way.

Tomorrow I will go back to PalVision from where Anna, Noor and I (and others?) will head out to Nablus. Hisham was saying we may get trapped in the city if the Israeli soldiers lock it down before Yom Kippur.