I'm Not Going To Cook It But I'll Order It From ZANZIBAR!

So, not only is Zanzibar a restaurant from a Tenacious D song, it is also an island of near-mythical beauty and wonder off the coast of Tanzania! I will be flying there (after much grief with my credit/debit cards. curse you and your fickleness, wells fargo!) on saturday, and 2 friends and I will spend some time relaxing on snow-white beaches, basking in turquoise waters, and wandering amidst the 17th century muslim sultanate "stone town"!

After that we will be making our way south along the coast of mozambique, frolicking through the jungle, playing catch with my new pet hippo, traversing rivers in dugout canoes, buying 1,000 kangas (awesome fabric swaths), consuming half the marine life from the coastal waters, dancing where appropriate, etc. etc.

I am SO EXCITED.

also, for you enjoyment, some photos from my life, recently:

The dog, is, after much speculation, PREGNANT! look, i'm poking a puppy fetus!

I did kind of want to sleep, but instead had to spend the day curing the hiv, one dirty dish at a time (there was a free testing day, and we helped with the catering) (that's my mom standing next to me!)


Lastly, a rare glimpse of the elusive headless-skinless tree sheep, captured right outside my hut!

A Duality to Defy Diana

HAPPINESS

1. cheese

2. tea
3. the professor
4. victoria (s) [both of them make my life sweet]
5. the tasty things vic bakes for me
6. cookie dough
7. my students
8. both of my families
9. thinking of grad school
10. i got a man!
11. altering/decorating my old shirts/dresses so that they ROCK
12. the new neko case album
13. lotses is sending me his old ipod! (<3)
14. dreaming of mozambique
15. pumpkin fries
16. pumpkin bread
17. moonshine
18. haruki murakami
19. my new coat
20. i may only have 4 more months in this country!
21. not teaching classes during my winter break

SADNESS

1. Parkinsons has been gone for 2 months, i keep expecting to see someone wearing her (people here have an affinity for making daniel-boone style hats out of house cats)
2. i didn't get to teach for a full mon-fri week ONCE this quarter because of classes being cancelled for various stupid reasons
3. silence
4. 'radio lesotho' -- the only radio station i get here is mostly fuzzy call in shows and the horrific native music called famu
5. doing laundry in subzero water
6. looking like the little brother in "a christmas story" when i go to bed each night because it's SO COLD
7. being a pariah
8. i may have 6 more months to get through
9. i have no good books to read
10. tuna went from 12 maluti per can to 20 maluti per can (from luxury item to unaffordable)
11. people in USA don't seem to be receiving any of the mail i'm sending
12. the professor isn't pregnant, she's just a slut.
13. my students are completely incapable of problem solving.