Till now, a pretty good day. My package came, with A Heart Of Stone, the DVD from camp, and no less than EIGHT packages of the cheese mix from Kraft Mac & Cheese. Dad, you rock!!!

This means that Martin, you have to come and try REAL macaroni and cheese, and Linde, you have to come and watch the camp DVD... :)

Anyway, I'm not allowed to even open the book yet - my assignment is to choose a portion of the Dutch version and translate it to English, then compare it to the 'professional' English translation. It's a really cool assignment and I'd like to get started now, but I can't because I have two other assignments, which are much less fun because they are from English to Dutch. Oh well. Anyway, I haven't decided which portion of the book to translate yet... but it's going to be difficult to do it in an 'unbiased' way, because you guys know me - when I read something that I enjoy, I sort of memorize it without meaning to. So when I read the Dutch version, the English version pops into my head unbidden. I have to try to 'turn that off' and think of how I would do it if I had no 'guide'...

Complaint of the Day: Why is it that whenever I ask a cashier IN DUTCH if I can use a Visa, they immediately switch to English??? Is it that big of a tip-off? Geez! That's really annoying...

OK, time for some food.