I'm waving to the little people

Dear Diary,

I'm starting to think that I might want to meet separately with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, but I am totally not going to coordinate their meetings for them. I'm so tired of people thinking they can cut diplomatic ties, launch rockets, and kill innocent people and then expect me to come give them band-aids.

Nope. I'm just going to sit back, relax, and look forward to the Forum for the Future conference at a Dead Sea resort later this week. I'm pretty sure that Jordan's King Abdullah II is just over-reacting about the growing violence and tension in Iraq, Palestine and Lebanon. Anyway, I'm wearing pretty jewelry today. And nothing says "Mideast democratization" like G-O-L-D!

It's too bad my advisor, Philip Zelikow, just quit. Otherwise, today would have been a perfect. Oh wait, that and the fact that we were in Estonia (?!?!?!) for a NATO meeting. So, yeah, without those two details, today would have been perfect.