No good news

Reports on my grandmother's condition ... not quite sure. Last I heard, they were wondering whether she could handle an operation to solve the internal bleeding problem. My mother's coming over to Athens from NYC to be with her.

Work's a lot more difficult today. Probably would be even if it didn't involve a contract that was apparently translated from German to English by an eleven-year-old.

Tear gas

Came out of the metro at Plateia Syntagma, and everyone coming into the station from the square was either sneezing, coughing, rubbing eyes, or some combination of all that. I think I just missed my second experience with riot-control pepper.

ETA: should have mentioned: it was also affecting everyone exiting the train and heading for the square. Including me.