Okay, so problems are getting solved one by one here and things are improving. At the very least, today is Friday, and that is good.
All the poo-poo of job problems aside, some things are quite nice here. As I mentioned earlier, the campus is beautiful and the weather is perfecto. My students are great: a diverse, quirky bunch. I have some who are frighteningly bright and others who are annoying and others who are thoughtful and sweet and others who I can´t figure out. They love playing "Wah!" (a game I taught them) and getting off-topic. Despite many obstacles in the lab component of the course, things are slowly getting underway (though it is hard to do a DNA extraction with one micropipette and 16 students). A real perk is the people who I´ve met, particularly the Mexican staff. As I´ve mentioned, Mexicans in general are very friendly, and I´ve enjoyed chatting with and joking with some of the UDLA students who are working in the program this summer. I went with a bunch of them to the midnight premier of the new Harry Potter movie--which was fun but totally insane considering it was on Wednesday night in a week of 15-hour work days. This weekend I plan to rest, do laundry, do lots of work, and maybe go out and get dinner tomorrow at a place where I don´t have to eat my food off a tray. Thanks to everyone who has emailed me or left a comment. I hope you are well!
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