Hey all,

I know I haven't been posting very much lately. Sometimes the whole idea of having a blog starts to irritate me, and then I feel disinclined from posting for awhile. . . if I'm not desperately bored at work, I feel like I might as well spend my time on more quality writing. Plus it's annoying when you post all your interesting stories on a blog, and then you try to have a conversation with an old friend and find that they've heard everything you have to say already.

Even so, I thought I might as well post a little update, just so my blog doesn't get a reputation as one of the never-changing ones. The following are my primary occupations of late:

1. Watching the World Cup (all England games, plus whatever else we fit in) and developing an increasing crush on David Beckham, even when he doesn't play that well.

2. Reading Doctor Zhivago, my new favorite novel.

3. Picking up books at the library for Bender (research assistant work).

4. Learning to read German (auditing a German class, but don't tell anyone because it's not allowed).

Aaand, yup.

mexico

is beautiful.

rather than go on and on about it, which is kind of in bad taste, let me just suggest that if you ever want to go on a gorgeous tropical vacation, get a bunch of friends together and go here:

http://sayulitalife.com/

and stay in this house:

http://www.sayulitalife.com/housepages/miotracasa.htm

and eat these tacos:

http://www.sayulitalife.com/business/fishtaco.htm

it's not even that expensive. you can top it all off by getting married on the beach at sunset (which would be a bit much for me, but was lovely to see for someone else).

that is all.