I woke up this morning to the clinking and clanking of construction on a building nextdoor. It seemed to me only right; I imagined this as the literal sounds of many people working to rebuild a country. Represents so much of what is going on throughout Egypt today. I liked waking up to that sound.

The weather is beyond perfect and the skies seem extra blue and clear. Much more so than I remember the Cairo skies being! Goals for today: eat fateer (delicious crepe-like dough covered with sugar) from my favorite stand near AUC in downtown Cairo, make first pilgrimage to Tahrir Square, perhaps walk across Qasr Al-Nil Bridge...attempt to get some research in there somewhere?