Dissertations

This will be a quick blog because I am already so tired. I just finished writing a paper and submitting the Heritage news summary. Tomorrow will be another long day because I have committed to projects that are due soon so I will have to go in early to get approval on a congressional (letter to congress) from the Ambassador and stay late getting clearances from everyone else involved.

Today was good and mostly just busy. I had an awesome 2 hour conversation with a Princeton professor who knows absolutely everything about Saudi Arabia and since I knew nothing I didn’t understand everything but I took SO many notes… and learned a ton too! My status as the one who gets to work on any urgent matter means I’m getting stretched in areas I don’t have a lot of expertise. I didn’t know what Wahhabism WAS a week ago and now I know a ton! (It’s Saudi’s form of Islam and extremist)…

Anyway, I also worked on the Vietnam memo to the Secretary and created a database for the classified system and gather articles and had a staff mtg and… it all blurs together now. It was busy though I did get off work around 7.

I think that’s all for today. I've been writing all day and can't write anymore. I’m so glad I get to sleep in about 48 hours… well, sleep a while that is… and I'll get caught up on emails too...