After supper Erandi gave the Bulgarian yoghurt. The Bulgarian exclaimed, "This yoghurt is Bulgarian, and the yoghurt culture comes from Bulgaria. Here in the world does natural yoghurt originate. Everywhere in our nation people eat yoghurt for breakfast and the milk salad of yoghurt, cucumber and garlic. If you eat this every day, you will live for ( Read more... )

In my first dream, I am given the option of splitting an apartment in Florence with Nick. I am trying to decide whether or not to do it. Nick isn't the most rational choice of roommate - particularly when considering that we will be sharing a one-room studio apartment - but I also feel like at least I know what I'm getting into. I suspect, at the ( Read more... )

The weather's been very cool lately, which has killed a lot of the summer vegetation. Today it's cold and dry enough for me to wear my parka. The sun is covered. At the beginning I was approaching two fighting animals, a gomphothere and a grizzly bear, who locked jaws, then backed off to assault one another again. The bear, even, was using his ( Read more... )

This afternoon, I was descending the office steps at the shelter when I fell off of the ledge into the gravel. I assume this was simply out of absentmindedness - but these things happen so fast that you usually don't understand the cause. I seem to have landed on everything, immediately: my chest, my buttocks, my wrist, and my knees. Only my wrist ( Read more... )

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When all of the real work was done, I went into the kennel to unfold newspapers. When puppies tear up their newspaper bedding, it must be replaced. I like to take the bundles of newspaper-unusable newspaper donated to us and unfold them on top of the cage by the door, right in the middle, again and again. There are so many newspapers. You can do it ( Read more... )

While pouring the bath, a furry jumping spider leaps into the corner of the room and turns around to face me. I think the drain plug is broken, because the water keeps going out and out. It seems to be a while, and the water coming from the hot nozzle has become the temperature of the cold. I have tried to use my hands and feet as drain plugs, but ( Read more... )

Great Uncle Edward wants to make a toast. "What's the toast?" He looks at the television, and a man on the television is standing in the supermarket. They've put the supermarkets to the test: which have what you need for the perfect Thanksgiving dinner? All of them do, kind of. With a nervous energy, the news team bursts into a song. Producers, ( Read more... )

There is a famous thought experiment in which prisoners are being coerced for information. They are put in isolation and individually questioned, knowing the exact stakes in question. Here they are: if you don't tell the men anything, they cut off one of your fingers (or something else very valuable but quantifiable) and move to the next prisoner. ( Read more... )

I woke up prematurely because my left nipple was in intense pain. It persisted. On the third day, it split into two nipples of original size like a cell dividing, each about three inches vertically displaced from the location of the original nipple. I was discussing the cockroach while he flipped channels on the television until Food Network. On ( Read more... )