Home Away From Home

I don't think I mentioned before how much I use to suffer from migraine. I did, and I like to brag that I don't suffer from it anymore. But some days, it is really not true! Today is one of those. Last night, I convinced my self it was but need to rest. This morning, I could feel it exploding even before I woke up... Class did not make it better and making end of year accounting for the NGO neither. I hate having migraine, I get slow and stupid if I take medicine, I get nervous and impossible to put up with if I don't. I guess tonight it will have to go away. The girls are in the concert for Teeba's birthday and I am here...

It was a long weekend, short if you think about having to come back, long from the perspective that it started Friday at 5am and just finished. After some troubling events to make sure we packed and made it to the airport on time (including Maria), the hope of getting somewhere warm and sunny out of the Boston snow storm made us dream through the 2 flights. And there we were, Turks and Caicos! From moment 1 (which means zero is excluded) I found the service to be better than in the Caribbean, though still far from I would expect from a country that is meant to live out of tourists. Moment zero was the one we found out the cabs from the airport were "government regulated" and per person but we eventually overcame hat situation (by paying). Restaurants were generally the ones with the best service, the rest had indeed a lot of room for improvement. But what do you ask when the sea varies between shades of coral blue and green, the temperature is a minimum of 25C and your only d

I hate being sick. It gets me even more sick to be sick. I can not stand the running nose and the look of Rudolf the reindeer settling in. And you just can't help it no matter what. To think that in 48 hours I will be lying on the beach somewhere and now here I am eyes burning between cold and hot feelings. It sucks. But it is the general feeling of the day anyway. Me and Teeba even created a "Things that piss me off" group in facebook as therapy to let it all out and at least be able to laugh about it later. We were both in bad moods and both got better while we were laughing about it here but I guess that feeling is gone and I am back to being in a bad mood. And guess what? It is midnight and I am about to start my only case for tomorrow... At least I finally was able to write something decent on my ISR as an excuse for this late start... Oh, and the Iberian dinner, off course. It is snowing again, welcome back New England weather!

And I am left with yesterday. I just hate leaving you, hate that you leave me, hate either of them and can't find a way to deal with it in a way that is grown up, rational and painless. Today was particularly difficult to let you go, especially after you were back "home". I try to read my cases but I am not making much progress. I read about some optical networks in India and still have no idea what those guys produce. And now the title of the next case reminds me of Dutch Disease and I am certain that I could find another 15 things that could be more interesting to read about. And that is only case number 2. Case number 3 will be read at some point in class tomorrow and Case number 4 is still in my mailbox. I really don't want you gone and at any moment I hope you come back through that door.

I can't wait for tomorrow, I really can't. It is hard to imagine what it is to have you here "back home" again. It is not home, but it is our home, at least the only one we ever had. I am so happy you are arriving, I can barely wait, I am not sure how I will keep myself entertained until your plane arrives! Well, being entertained is not difficult here, but tomorrow I really just want time to fly!

My Learning Team finally came for dinner. It took a full semester of postponements and indeed still 2 people dropped last minute for today, but we decided to still go ahead. I prepared Aman and Finny with portuguese specialty codfish with cream, potuguese wine and port, oreo ice cream and sausage roles as starters. I think they liked it. I was happy they could make it as I never get to see them anymore. It is amazing how you spend almost an hour together every morning for an entire year and then people just disconnect. And it sees like it was yesterday that I saw them. I am happy their life is settled and I am happy I could share it with them. I am though finishing the bottle for them, since Finny was on antibiotic and me and Aman had to take care of the Alabastro, but I am sure they will not mind. Dishes are done (surprisingly) and I have 10 things I could do but I guess I will just chill and wait for the weekend to arrive...