Since Susan is in southern France, it seems that we've seen quite a bit of Leila this week. Tonight she came over at a fairly late hour (she's always welcome) to work out her problems with politics with Eva.

I was busy bolding, deleting, and fixing my soon-to-be home-bound journal printout while they had a nice discussion on the couch next to me. Over the past few days I've been working in that same position (laptop on lap! how true-to-name!) for hours at a time. I was so engrossed in journals from yesteryear, that I didn't care how animated they were in their speech or if they ever spoke English. At first I tried to follow along, but I soon realized that they were not into langzaam, and I was too stressed about the project at hand, so I just found myself deeper and deeper in the spring of 2002.

They left to go grab a bite to eat and Eva promised to return with a beer. As I had been siting in the same position for nearly 4 hours, I switched to the kitchen table. At 2 in the morning I heard them outside, saying their goodbyes two stories down from our open window. A few minutes later, Eva returned with a beer that I couldn't possibly drink because I was now officially exhausted.

She caught me up on a bit of Leila's political quandaries while I shut down the computer and brushed my teeth. It was one of those nights when we had eacj so perfectly done our own thing (most of which occurred in a 6 foot by 6 foot area of our house) that we could have laughed about it.

Thank god it's a Thursday and that tomorrow is a Friday which means that Eva won't mind that she was up until 2+.

IN THE NEWS:
Today China threatened execution for people who knowingly spread the SARS virus and cause death or serious injury, as the government attempted to force compliance with quarantines and other measures to stop the disease.