I dare you to resist the urge of the song that will be stuck in your head after reading this entry..

[summerless_year]

It's been an inauspicious last twelve hours here at camp summerless_year. It all started when I was lying in bed, drifting off to sleep, and the phone rang. With a little bear named Osa on the other end. Left her keys at work. Clearly, this calls for a sleepover. So she came over and we pretended that I wasn't already half asleep (no frog pajamas

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[diabla_traviesa]

Jajajajajajajajajaja

Sorry, but that was just too funny. I've been stuck in elevators before, but no one came to my rescue with a mighty super knife

[summerless_year]

yeah, fwiw, a knife is not the right implement to get people out of an elevator. Unless the elevator is made of butter, bread, cheese, cake or other cuttable substances. Metal and wood, not so much.

btw, I want Chinese restaurant recommendations. I have heard IChing on San Martin is good. Can you substantiate? I love eggplant (I've never met so many people who didn't before coming to this find country), so recommend away!!!

[diabla_traviesa]

I can't give you any! Every single Chinese restaurant we have tried was awful!

And people here hate delicious stuff like eggplant and brussels sprouts!

[summerless_year]

and arugula and watercress, which are so, so, so delicious! It's strange. If you mention a food that people don't know or fear they won't like, they use eggplant as a barometer. Eggplant is delicious! In the back of the vega, they sell "chinese eggplant." The slimmer kind of fuscia one. There are some tiny, tiny green eggplants with funny patterns on them that I used once in a Thai curry. So, so, so good. Unlikely to find them here in the near future, but you never know.

When can we bitch about the availability of good cheese in regular grocery stores? let me know.

[seide]

I know that wasn't fun but you certainly made it sound funny!

[summerless_year]

thanks, it wasn't that stressful, so I guess it was okay. Great to chat with you, if only for a minute. My linament thing worked pretty well, as I went out for a long walk later that night... ufff. How I get so old all of a sudden? (bad grammar on purpose)

[travelertrish]

Triple wow on the mountains from your window! I saw ours on, I think it was Saturday morning, only the second time in a month and a half. Your last line made me LAUGH. It's 90 per cent humidity here and my sweat pants have taken OVER a week to dry. My fucking UNDERPANTS take a week to dry. Even on days when we get sun...Oh, well, I'm using a hair dryer.

[summerless_year]

I know I shouldn't complain about the laundry drying, because it's really not that bad here. Now my jeans have been drying for two and a half days, but I didn't have them in the bathroom, with the fan trained on them, as is standard procedure (for me anyway) for drying clothes in the winter. I like the sound as I sleep, and it seems to prevent the laundry from smelling moldy. Does cause a bit of a condensation issue on the windows, but if I can open them from time to time, it's not so bad.

fucking underpants take a week to dry? Seriously, trish, I would go without! Or next time pack ones that are wickable or super, super thin. My grannypanty types take a long time to dry, but the thinner ones, and thongs (oh! the nepali horror of a pair of underwear that is _in_ your buttcrack) don't take long at all. Sorry to hear about the "expiration" of the family's relative. I hope the mourning period does what it's supposed to do.

keep posting! Your stuff is fab!

[travelertrish]

Full disclosure? I DID go without for at least a week. Then I hit on the latest plan. Every day, dry one pair with the hair dryer, wash one pair and hang it up. Since I have five or six pair, that gives the first-washed five days, and by then it's hair-dryer-dryable. I have one nylon pair and it does dry first, but still, five solid days.

Nights are in the 40's, days in the 60's, and humidity is in the 90s, plus it rains just about every day. I'm just glad I don't have to contend with the depression Jean-Francois would have if he had to share this space with me.

[e11en]

Clearly the sunburn on my feet is affecting my brain. I almost have the song figured out but it's not quite coming together for me. From the tiny piece of it I have though, I think I'm glad for that.