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According to my students, the weather today is 'boring'. In other words, it is grey, overcast beyond belief, and pissing down rain. Ergo, they can't do any work. You know how it is. At least they were sweet about it.

Gizem from last term, the one who gave me the home made earrings that didnt cause my earlobes to explode, has been sweetly stalking me all week in anticipation of inviting me to her family home for dinner next monday. I agreed (how can you say no to a girl who has done no wrong?) but am now slightly dreading it-- I've had so much mandatory hospitality over the past few years that I am rather jaded about such things. Sitting in a formal sitting room being stuffed with endless tea and endless food and making awkward small talk in tired Turkish when all I really want to do is go home to my quiet solitude is a daunting and dubious prospect. Sigh.