Strange week this week. It rained Thursday morning. Usually April is the last month for some (April) showers, but apparently global warming is starting to change the Beirut climate. From the way it looks, we are actually getting a better deal than what we’ve had before. Usually around this time Beirut is hot hot hot and humid. You can’t sleep unless you close your windows and put your ac on 20. You take a shower in the morning and about the time you dry yourself, you’re sweating again. You drive to work and everything sticks to you. At work you are afraid to leave your room because out in the hallways there’s no AC. And when you leave work and get into your car, your fingers fuse to the steering wheel.
This year, however, we’ve had nice warm and breezy days, and nice cool and breezy nights. I haven’t used the AC yet.
Yesterday we’ve had another car bomb; a journalist that was supposedly a very staunch anti-Syrian voice, and was even so when the Syrians were still here. Only last week he said in a TV interview that the Lebanese internal security forces - whom he blames as much as he blames the Syrians for the murder of Hariri – frequently shadowed him, but that up till now they hadn’t done anything. Did he wake up the sleeping dogs, eh!
I had a fieldtrip to the Jeita Caves. I learned today that it was a solution cave; one of the most common types of caves in the world. As you can read, didn’t do anyhting this week but work. Will hit the beach tomorrow.
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