Sorry - no pictures today. It's after midnight and I'm ready for bed. I'll just write some info about the day and turn in.

I had two meetings downtown. First I met with the Fulbright director about the possibility of my involvement in some projects outside of just the teaching assignment at U of A. She told me about a few other professors at some other universities with whom I could meet and perhaps deliver a guest lecture. We discussed prospects for a video workshop with an eclectic group of different people who might benefit. It was a nice visit and I'm very excited about the possibility of getting involved in some other activities.

Afterward I headed to the university to meet with the chair of the department. We're going to team-teach the comparative media class. We'll meet with the class on Thursday to go over the course outline and expectations.

It turns out it will be my only daytime class. The documentary class meets Wednesdays 6-8 p.m. and the video production class meets Fridays 6-8 p.m. In addition there is a production lab that meets Mondays 5-7. Since the students work on projects and there are no grades, we don't meet with that class each week. We just meet periodically to check their progress, critique their work and provide suggestions.

We had Mark and Martha over for dinner this evening. Of course Kim did all the hard work. Any of you who have been fortunate enough to have one of Kim's special meals know how spectacular they can be. I think Mark and Martha was impressed. We had a nice evening - the time flew (one of the reasons I'm so late getting to this entry).

Greece's big news story today was about a prison escape. A helicopter lowered a rope and two prisoners climbed out - just as they did two years ago. They were captured and the episode got repeated yesterday.

One more thing. As you well know, a lot of Greece's antiquities are scattered around the globe. Greece would say they've been pillaged. They've built a new Acropolis museum, but the pillars are in London at the British museum. There was a great quote in a little tourist brochure: "A British paper had once written, rather tongue in cheek, that if all the London museums allowed other countries to get back the things taken from them, then all that was left would be two oil paintings featuring cocker spaniels."