The Waiting Game

This country has taught me nothing if not flexibility.

Due to a 12-hour power outage and even longer water cut, I have only managed to accomplish 1.75 of the 7 tasks on today’s to do list. I got my blog post in before the 9 a.m. power outage, and finished most of an update of our regional strategy before my computer ran out of battery charge. But no grad school applications, e-mails, report, case study, or run.

I did, however, manage to make it through entire issues of Utne Reader, Mental Floss and the Atlantic, as well as 200 pages of David Sedaris, take a 2-hour nap, clean my room, play with the dogs, and make and consume a giant pot of stove-top popcorn (a misnomer if you're living without a stove?). Sometime in the not too distant future, I’m going to look back on days like this with longing, right?