がつだぜ

I took a bus to Burma and on the way I took a nap.
I wrote myself a note saying I'd better give this one back.
And there is a lot going on underneath.
There are roots and pipes. There are drainage leaks.

After a thunder storm, Bangkok resembles a weird hybrid creature consisting of the merger of the city of Venice. without gondolas, and a wet dog. I can't explain this any better.

We went out shopping this afternoon in the lovely little area known as Khao San Road.
This place is amazing. If there is anything you have ever wanted to buy, this is the place for you to find it. A PhD in Parapsychology from Yale, no problem. A Doctor of Journalism from Berkeley, you got it. A Padi certification, a driver's license, a dog license, hell, a fish license (for your pet fish, even though it might be a dog license with the word dog crossed out and the word fish written under it in crayon).
We were looking for a tailor. We found one. I will, very soon, have shirts that fit in the body, neck and arms (instead of the usual one of the three) and pants that go all the way to my ankles (I am not sure this has ever happened before). Maya will have two new pairs of pants for her long, lovely legs.
It stormed on our way home this evening. We got to our street, got off the bus and proceeded to wade home. Yes, I said wade. The water in the street was, at the deepest point, up to about my mid-shin.
Maya was, in a word, nonplussed.
I thought it was great. I thought about all the oil and trash and sewage that was teeming in that water that we were walking through in the dark after just having bought tailor made clothes and I felt like such a rugged adventurer. Indiana Jones, look out!
Oh, and I ate McDonald's today and I feel really bad about it.
What else? On the whole, work is good. After our first day at the school we were supposed to work at we got transfered to another school. Now, instead of being an English teacher, I am a sixth grade homeroom teacher. I am teaching science, computer skills, math, English, health, reading and writing, and I am running the English club. Maya is teaching kindergarten at the same school and has a class full of kids who are adorable "when they are sleeping."
Maya has been teaching since last Wednesday, I started teaching on Thursday.
Tomorrow we are going to venture back out into the wilds of Bangkok to go searching for a mythical power transformer that can covert the 220 volt current that pulses through Bangkok's power veins into the much tamer 110 volt current that most of the computer accessories we own can handle.
I also plan on sleeping late tomorrow and having a dream that I am a race car passenger. I love the word race car, its a palindrome. I palindrome I.

Love and Lickens...