Waiting times...

It didn't seem worth it to trek into the city today just to buy souvenirs for people, since I could probably get them for a bit cheaper back at the arts and crafts village in Abuja... can't haggle at the boutique stores in Kampala.  So I'm just sitting here in the lobby of the Speke Resort, waiting to catch the shuttle for my flight out to Addis... got about 2 hours to kill.  Actually would have had 3 hours to sit around and attempt to do work, but I spent almost an hour just trying to check out.  O_O  For such a fancy resort, they still use dot matrix printers!  Which is kind of cool in a throwback kind of way, since I was able to fold those paper stars out of the margin strips that you can rip off... hehe.  Takes me back to the day when I made black and white dot matrix birthday cards for my parents on my dad's super old-school printer.  Anyhoo, I should be working on some scholarship personal statements, but who wants to write those?  Meh.  Instead, I'm just people watching... there's some big brouhaha conference that started today with all these dudes in the long white robes and head-gear/dress? from the Middle East somewhere...  Saudi/Arab traditional clothing?  Ooh.  According to Google, it's called a dishdasha.  AWESOME.  I want one.  Somehow I'm always more attracted to traditional menswear of different cultures than women's clothing... it just looks so much more comfortable.

Look at happy and comfy he is!  :P

Flying back through Addis tonight and hanging out with Chandra and her friend from Rwanda.  Here's hoping that she has hot water in her apartment!  Although, I guess I could stay at the hotel too, since Ethiopian Air is supposedly going to put me up, as they don't fly out to Abuja that late at night.  I wonder how many hours I've logged traveling and waiting around, transiting through airports here and there... If I harnessed all those hours and actually did something productive with it... eh.  Been flipping through my passport and I only have like, 2 pages left!  Looks like I will have to order some more blank pages if I want to do more travel before it expires in 2 years.  :)  Exciting.

Sigh.  Back to work... in the meantime, just wanted to throw up this picture, I just think it's so cute.