Where are the pigeons?

So I didn't go to the doc .... like you expected. No surprise. I think I'm getting better. Mind over matter. The phlegm is much more reduced and so is the coughing. The fever is also less frequent but the joints still ache. In fact right now I've got a bad headache. Maybe not drinking enough. Anyway I tried to stay as much in my room so as not to spread the germs. Got several visits from profs and students yesterday - mainly to see if I'm dead yet. Sorry to disappoint them.

Most of the 1st and 2nd year students have gone on excursion to Sinai for 5 days. So the library is pretty quiet. Managed to borrow two books for research reading - italian and french books. Maybe that's why I have a headache now. Brains are not ready for such heavy reading I guess.

A friend came over yesterday to pick up something. I told him not to come between 1pm - 3pm as I was busy - and of course he had to come at 2.30pm. Why do these things happen? It's like the phone call you wait and wait but never comes, and when you step into the washroom for that one second, it rings. Everyone in the house has had that experience and we were laughing about it.

As expected http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7869704.stm Things are not getting better if aid is not entering Gaza immediately and reconstruction of the strip begin. People are sleeping outdoors in winter with little food and medicine. And the horrors of the war are now coming to dreadful light http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7848768.stm

So what was this guy thinking???? The flight lasted what? 16 hours? Poor pigeons! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7869301.stm

So the Vatican has ordered Williamson to recant on his Holocaust remark. But again, that is a different issue from the 1988 excommunication and the lifting of it (which is the denial of papal authority and validity of the vernacular Mass). In fact this order to recant is going to prove if Williamson is really ready to obey papal authority. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7869995.stm