yaum jamiil

good
coffee and cinnamon rolls for breakfast

bad
considering starting a small-scale holy war

good
picking a church to go to

bad
showing up at the fellow church-goers' apartment at twenty till and finding them all on the floor in pajamas eating mashed potatoes

good
going to church

bad
not understanding most of the words

good
understanding a few of the words

good
Romans 5!!!!

good
going shopping

good
finding calligraphy pens

bad
getting home and realizing that they are not the right kind of calligraphy pens

good
vacuuming the apartment

bad
bakhoor holes in the carpet

good
the memory of Amber using a fork to fluff the charred carpet

good
dinner with Dany and the girls down the hall

bad
realizing that my OPI (oral proficiency interview) is Tuesday morning

good
OPI review by the pool with Gaby and his students

good
Ibrahim's "jokes" (e.g., "because of the war" as an all-purpose answer) and "typos" (e.g., "I am my daughter's daughter," "my daughter is your daughter," and "Napoleon is my girlfriend") in the OPI interview

good
laughing really hard

bad
realizing that I am not as smart as Max

good
finding out that Max is coming with us to Jordan