Summer's Over--What Now?

Since the bulk of the short-term teams come in the summer, i've been asked to take on some new tasks to help ease the burden on some other people. I was really hoping to use this time to streamline some of our processes of getting teams in and out of the country--but that's OK. There'll be more time for that later, I'm sure. Right now, there are some more pressing needs that i've switched over to.

About one month ago, I was asked to help out a Filipina who was involved in a car accident. We originally thought that this would only take a couple of weeks, but because of some complications, it has now ballooned into a semi-major ordeal. It's not overly time consuming, but the time that it DOES take up is fairly precious. Like at 2AM, when the hospital calls and informs me that I need to come down and buy a unit of blood for the patient. I was kind of hoping that they would just put it on the bill and inform me about it in the morning--but that's not the best way to go, I guess.

My second project is a lot more fun--and is something where I at least have some idea as to what I am doing. One of our translators is hosting 10-ICAL : The Tenth Conference on Austronesian Linguistics. Admittedly, I know nothing about Austronesian Linguistics, but I do know a little bit about web programming, so he asked me if I could create a website for the conference. It's been a lot of fun working on it (more fun than sitting in a plastic chair in a hospital waiting room); after trying to hide it for so long, I think my inner geek is starting to show. Don't tell anyone.

Anyway, I'll post a link to the site in a few weeks when it finally "goes live". I also get to attend the Conference, where I'll be posting all of the 160+ papers that are submitted, and doing general tech support type of stuff.