It's been a long and relaxing weekend, so relaxing in fact that I have yet to start my research for the Turkish oral presentation due Wednesday morning. We're leaving for Amasra and Safranbolu tomorrow morning and won't be back until late on Tuesday, so now is pretty much the only time I have to work. But I can't. Probably because I stopped caring about these sorts of things the second I handed in my thesis this past April. So I'm sentencing myself to a late night on Tuesday by being lazy today, and I'm kind of ok with that. I've never really been one for last-minute work, but I'm starting to think it's not all that bad in certain instances.

I tried uploading some pictures of yesterday evening (our raw meatball extravaganza) on facebook, but it's being lame and I gave up. Until I manage to get the pictures online, check out this video I took of my host father (in the stripes) kneading the raw meat with a friend of my host mother. The little girl is her niece.