Harvey's Diary
8 August 2007 – Wednesday
More of the same, I’m afraid – quiet on campus one heck of an understatement. There are only a handful of students and staff around. I’m spending some time rearranging the book collection so that new books can fit in where they belong. This is not rocket science work, to be sure. I’ve also begun to plan for adding some new database services for September - this is going slowly, as I had forgotten about the only 3-day overlap of the work week with the rest of the western world. Communication is a challenge. And speaking of the 3-day overlap: Kuwait will join several other regional countries this September when it changes its weekend to Friday/Saturday as opposed to Thursday/Friday – should be helpful in many ways.
For fun and R&R, again not much happening. Bill Wadden and I had dinner this week (Bill is GUST’s continuing education dean) – that has been about it. I’m taking Bill to see the Tareq Rajab museum tomorrow – he has yet to see it and it will be something to do. As noted in previous entries, there is lots of down time when working overseas – read, watch old movies, eat, walk, eat, shop, eat – ah, the joys.