Last night Mama Manoogian and I went out with our longtime readers, Dickran Hagopian and his daughters to Raffi’s Kebab for dinner. It was great to finally meet Mr. Hagopian, who for the last couple of years has been writing to the loggers. A very fun person to be around.

I sent off Mama Manoogian this morning with Madlene’s mom and dad.

I have a bunch of appointments today, including one with DerHova, who will be auditioning someone from Martuni, who is now studying to become a singer here in Yerevan. She was apprehensive at first to go sing for him, telling him that she will audition after she has learned to sing. He explained to her that she can learn all she wants, but if she can sing, then all the learning will not change what he is looking for. So today after 2 PM she will audition and we will see if we have found one of the next Armenian singers that you will hear about everywhere and you will be able to say that you knew about her before she was…

BTW, my television interview has finally been aired here in Armenia (3 days ago) and I guess it should soon be aired on satellite.

This computer I’m using in the internet café keeps loading up porn sites, which tells me that I really need to wash my hands when I leave.