a day alone, plans to be made

I like the idea of MERC-p, Michele, but I won't be doing any cooking. To cook Ghanaian/Liberian food is counter to every healthy instinct within me - all that palm oil! Simple carbohydrates! Yikes! And I could try to cook felafel - I've done it before - but it's just not the same without the right frying apparatus. Sigh.

So, it's back to carne with Pam! Woo hoo! Trust me, I'll be so crazy hungry for carne when I get back, I'll quickly forget everything I ever ate anywhere else. Oh, and I won't be in a big party mood - just a "Let's eat at Templo every single day forever" mood. Especially when y'all get your big plates and I get an empty one to fill from yours. :-)

OK, I'm trying to get my nerve up to deal with the travel agent and post office. It's taxing. And I'm STILL trying to finish reading Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy. I swore I wouldn't leave Jordan until I did ... only 55 pages left, thank goodness. IT's actually really interesting, if opaque often and slow-going.

Oh, look at me, procrastinating. (BTW, Michele, could I send a package to you? I have to get rid of 60 pounds from my luggage, and some of it I can just ditch, but some of it is worth the expensive cost to mail back.)