lucky Tamanya!

I was sitting here feeling bad about sending her to the vet for 8 days where a bunch of dogs also live.

But then the assistant to the provost came in and demanded to take her. Wow! She’s a cat expert, so there are few people I would trust more. Babycat is still just too needy to inflict on any friend who isn’t deeply experienced in caring for cats. I’ve become pretty good at bottle-feeding a kitten in less than two weeks, but it takes patience.

That will be a fun time for Tammy. The only question is whether the three adult cats living at that residence will accept her.

subscribed to my own blog? what?

Just received an email saying I subscribed to my own blog and will be notified every time I make a post. Not sure how that happened, and I don’t want it.

Obviously, the only solution is to boot myself from the subscribers’ list.

conference, day two

A nice, brisk day today with just three panels, all of them good. An especially moving moment was a biographical film on artist and electronic musician AHMED BASSIOUNY, presented by his friend.

I never met Ahmed, but many people at the American University in Cairo knew him personally; he lectured at Helwan University, one of the state universities in the Cairo suburbs.

He was apparently shot by a sniper and then run over by a law enforcement vehicle, presumably in Friday, January 28, though his body was not located until about 4 days later.

[ADDENDUM: If anyone is planning to go to the Venice Biennale, the Egyptian section will have a special exhibit on Bassiouny’s work. Today I was also delighted to learn that that portion will be curated by my former student Aida El-Torie.]