Summer is Over

Well, it has been over three months since I posted an entry here. It must be my record to date. First of all, I want to report that I am well and alive. I spent a good chunk of summer in Turkey visiting family and friends and doing the things that needed to be done. Ah, of course I had a nice vacation for a little while. It is like yesterday and I never wanted it to end. There are lots of nice pictures to be posted.

Of course, I had to return to real life after that short halucination of comfortable, lazy life style. We came back early August, but honestly I didn’t have the slightest will to post anything and I let it be that way. Work is way over my head at the moment. My main thing is coming up with a proposal and finishing up my area paper. I don’t have much time left but it is not progressing too bad. I am trying to stay positive and concentrate on the work other than being overly stressful about it.

Anyway, actually, what prompted me to write an entry is the FIBA World Basketball Championship being held in Japan in the recent days. Turkey is participating and before the tournament there was a big discussion going on after NBA players Hidayet Turkoglu and Mehmet Okur announced they do not want to be in the team because of their exhausting NBA schedules. So, Turkey formed the team from mostly young players who barely missed the European Championship title in July. How did it turn out? The group matches are over and Turkey had 4 wins in 5 mathces loosing only to Greece in the last group match. This is a great accomplishment with a roster whose average age is 24. Turkey will face Slovenia in the second round match. I hope they will go as much as they can and play with their hearts out in all games as they did in the group matches.

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