My friend kitty's post about frog season in Benin has reminded me that winter in Lima is snail season for us. Our walkway up to the house is flanked by a cement wall, the top of which is hollowed out as a planter, and therefore is full of dirt and plants. At night, quite a bit of dew/moisture gathers in our otherwise desert landscape, and the ( Read more... )

I hate to beat a dead horse with my epic self-esteem issues, but ( Read more... )

yay!!!! through some mysterious channel that I can't remember, at some point in time I became a member of the exlusive "I know where to get good Indian food club" of the Embassy. Apparently years ago there was this awesome Indian restaurant, which closed (Peruvians are not so much fans of the international food circuit - nothing can ever come ( Read more... )

I just discovered that Towanda loves banana bread. I'll add this to her list of other weird favorite foods, which includes refried beans and maple syrup.

A while ago, right after we decided to seperate and I was all into social networking for like, 2 days, I set up a facebook page. I never really got into it ( Read more... )

They just started playing the show Pushing Daisies down here. I love it. The writing is great, it's very quirky. Is it popular in the states? I missed the first episode though, so I don't get what is the deal with the one-minute rule. AFter one minute of being revived, what happens?

Enzo lost his first tooth yesterday!!!


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I'm glad i'm human. we're watcing animal planet and they are showing these birds, which are kind of seagull like but much more beautiful, and in order to mate, the male gets up on top of the females, and stomps back and forth on her back for a long time, while grabbing her neck from the back with his long sharp beak. Apparently this routine helps ( Read more... )

I just discovered slate.com. Excellent. Primo writing (at least what I checked out today) and awesome hip content. I had always heard of slate, but never really checked it out. Hello procrastination.

I've been drinking a lot of tea lately... mainly herbal infusions that are non caffinated, but trying to do that instead of chocolate. I just hope it doesn't make my teeth start looking dingy...