Accra, Casablanca, Paris

I'm in Accra at the moment, the capital of Ghana. I just took the GRE exam, the one you need to do for graduate studies in the US. The last month has been a mad one at the office. Now after the exam on top, I'm pooped.

I haven't been writing much lately. Instead, I've been coding. Often by candlelight. I've been working on Stata, the popular statistical software programme, cleaning the data that our enumerators collected earlier this year. Roughly 40,000 lines of code later, enough of the data is clean for my PIs (Principle Investigators) to start using it. And I'm off on a holiday...

... to FRANCE!! Early tomorrow morning I'm leaving Accra and flying to Paris via Casablanca (where it was once said by some guy: "we'll always have Paris"). And then, in Paris, I'm meeting my sister LAURA, who I haven't seen in 18 months. We're going cycling down the Loire valley and then up through Brittany and Normandy. At least, that's the plan, we'll see how we feel at the time :)

Now I need to contemplate whether it's worth getting one hour of sleep before heading off to the airport. The answer is, YES.