Thoughts from the road

I must fight the urge to make this into anything more than a place for me to vomit up thoughts, and keep you all abreast of my actions. The urge to be profound is stifling, melodramatic, and nearly irresistible, so it's best to avoid the problem all together whenever possible.

As per usual "zomgblog" protocol, I'll hopefully get this blog prettied up, formatted, etc. once I'm island-side and established. For now though it gives me something to do, and a way to keep track of it all, so forgive me if I ramble on a bit.

IMPORTANT NEWS ITEM THE FIRST:
Eli has just escaped from perhaps an hour locked in the bathroom. We had arrived safe at our lovely host Alex's place, and gone out for dinner at a fantastic Southern/Creole place. I got this amazing plate of Jambalaya, Gumbo and red beans and rice: the meat was all superbly tender, perfectly spiced, and I forgot my camera so you'll just have to take my word for it that it was a beautiful plate. It was also easily 3 meals worth of food. As a point of pride, and in preparation for a solid year of nothing but Japanese food, the whole plate was consumed. Walking home was...expectedly difficult.

Sitting around the house resulted in a proper food coma, curled up on the couch, mind running wild grabbing hold of little bits of the world around me, and incorporating it into the half-dreams. At some point, I became aware that something had happened in the outside world. Struggle back to reality! And find that Eli is locked in the bathroom. What had happened was: the knob on the bathroom door doesn't actually work. This was never explained, and poor Eli shut the door. Eventually the super, a farily hilarious Italian gentleman, came up and busted him out by cracking out the frame of the door and hammering a butterknife into the lock. When he first arrived, he didn't actually realize someone was locked inside, and the moment where Eli said something before he was busted out was priceless.

Tomorrow we head up to the airport, and the real shenanigans start. Till then, I'm going to get back to the real world. Much as I love the internet.