The week was filled with co-workers coming either for work or a social visit (or both), starting with last Sunday morning. One of my favorite junior officers from Georgetown came for coffee.<\/p>\n
Monday afternoon, the new officer going to Grenada came for a long briefing (an oxymoron?) on consular operations there, and my replacement Beth joined us (her first day on the job). She stayed a couple of hours after he left, and I started training her on some aspects of the job.<\/p>\n
Tuesday, another new regional consular officer came for coffee – we worked together in Israel. Wednesday, my boss from Germany brought lunch and we worked for a couple of hours, going over logistics of next week\u2019s workshop that I\u2019ve been planning. Finally, Thursday, one of the desk officers who works on cases involving U.S. citizens came for a glass of wine.<\/p>\n
Throughout the week I had PT as usual, plus the gym regimen. I overdid it one day and ended up with a very swollen knee, something I\u2019m fighting more and more. I actually did some cooking yesterday, in preparation of having all of the regional consular officers over tonight (they\u2019re all in town for the workshop next week).<\/p>\n
We watched \u201cUnbelievable,\u201d a mini-series with Toni Collette that was really good. John went to the Kennedy Center yesterday to see \u201cCats\u201d – he laughed, he cried!<\/p>\n
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