At one in the morning, it gets increasingly difficult to spell the word "Kyrgyzstan." It doesn't help that many spell checkers don't think it's a word (including Writing.com's: the line above glares read at me. Wrong! Wrong! Sorry, it's spelled correctly). I added "Kyrgyzstan" to the Microsoft Word dictionary, but then whenever I wrote "Kyrgyz," as in the language or the ethnicity, there it was, that squiggly red line, angrily demanding that I try again.
         I used to have the spell checker turned off on Word, because it was so irritating, telling me to spell things differently or rearrange my sentences in weird, stupid ways. But I can't figure out how to do it on Word for Macs. I'm sure I could figure it out, but...waste of time.
         Anyway, my paper ended up being pretty good, in my opinion. I am almost an expert on modern Kyrgyz politics now. The only problem: I forgot to change the title.
         Whenever I write a paper, I give it a funny interim title while I'm still working. It makes me laugh a little, lightening my mood somewhat while in the throes of an intense writing session. I always change it to something more professional before the end...
         ...except last night, when I forgot, and electronically submitted a paper called "Kyrgyzstan: The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same."
         Sigh.
         I guess it could have been worse. The other interim titles I had at some point during the past two days were "Bakiyev to the Future," "Race for a Kyrgyzstan" and "Kyrgyzstand By Me." Those might have been harder to explain.
         I'm bad with titles anyway. See above.