random thoughts passing me by on a saturday afternoon.
it's cold. well, relatively anyways.
my hands feel a little numb when i try to type, but honestly, it's maybe in the 50's...so for you canadians, i know i know, this ain't nothing.
reading a book about nigeria in the sixties that is ripping my face off.
Half of a yellow sun.
makes me think too much about war, and the people it seems to affect and how i've never understood really, what it means to be a victim. and how history seems to be always repeating.
and last night we watched the english movie playing at the Empire...a not so classy but nice and cheap theater that plays one movie every week. and has a menagerie of felines prowling around the place. anyone seen The Kingdom about Saudi terrorists groups? interesting and disterbing all at the same time really. and of course, it reconfirmed my desire to visit the middle east at some point in this life of mine.
many friends leave this month, moving back to the UK and germany and Sweden...unending goodbyes. life i suppose.
and now i'm off with sarah and kristin to take some of our beautiful British friends out to High Tea. i'll probably try to speak in my butchered english accent at least once during the evening. my own special ode the queen. wilst we drink proper tea.
i really do like the british, even with their mushy peas and odd minced pies.
3 comments:
I did hear from Sheila that Julian and his wife were leaving Kolkata. It's wonderful they're going to have a child. But I would have loved to get to know them better.
you know when you wrote that you were going to speak in your amazing british accent, i actually heard it in my head and laughed out loud to myself in our makeshift office. love you dear!
kalee
Please tell me you said, "George, dahling, hand me the whiskeeeee" as I recall you saying once in the kitchen in the flat. :) I miss you, Ms. Waterman. Just wanted you to know I'm reading. And praying. And missing. Give the Sari Bari ladies huge hugs from me.
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