PMM! Finally I can congratulate you, screen to screen!

A couple of days after you gave birth, it was crazy here, I was running in and out, and I just *had* to log on to b.org, to see how you're doing and if there are any news. A friend who sat in the room with me couldn't possible understand why I have to start playing with the computer when we had to run outside again. When I did, and got this huge smile on my face, I explained that an internet friend just gave birth to a healthy baby girl. He wanted to know if you were one of the people I met in the summer, and had more difficulty in understanding my glee when I explained that, alas, no, I've never met you in face-space. But still, I'm so very happy for you.

Out of three births, I received flowers for only one of them, so flowers are not a bad choice, imo. It depends on whether or not she likes cut flowers and doesn't have allergies to trigger.

t waving back at Nilly

Hi Nilly!

Happy Birthday, Eddie!

It's Sunday. I should be productive.

Ah, well, at least I already clipped the dog's nails and rescued my bougainvillea from the nasturtiums.

Happy May Day, everyone! And happy birthday to Eddie!

Today it's overcast but still somehow bright and not-rainy. I think I'll take a walk to the bookstore in a little bit to lay in some new reading material for my trip to Berlin.

Suela!

Um, I got to watch exactly one episode of Farscape on this vacation. I'm still not at the halfway mark that you mentioned, and it's still fun. I had to stop because my roommate came back, and she really can't watch anything science-fiction/fantasy, so on her request we switched to "Gilmore Girls" (which isn't considered fantasy, apparently, regardless of the amounts and types of foods the characters are supposed to eat while maintaining their very slim figure).

[Edit: Kate! When are you leaving for Germany? Where else will you visit?]

"Gilmore Girls" (which isn't considered fantasy, apparently, regardless of the amounts and types of foods the characters are supposed to eat while maintaining their very slim figure).

Ha!

Nilly, I'm leaving on May 13 to stay with a friend in Berlin for a couple of weeks. If possible, I'd like to try to visit the Czech Republic while I'm there, since he has family there, but he's also going to be busy with schoolwork, so it may not work out. But I'm super excited for Berlin! I've never been to Germany, but my family heritage is mostly German on both sides, so I think it will be cool to see where I'm "from".

The other cool thing about this trip is that my best friend from Cape Town is going to try to meet up with us for a few days also, which would be AWESOME--I miss him terribly and I haven't seen him in a year. (The friend-who-lives-in-Berlin is also a Cape Town friend.)

What is vegetarian, kosher ham? How does that work?

Hi Nilly!

I slept for a really long time last night, and now I have coffee and tandoori naan. Yay.

(which isn't considered fantasy, apparently, regardless of the amounts and types of foods the characters are supposed to eat while maintaining their very slim figure)

Bwah! Very good point. I consider Friends a fantasy show as well, considering the size of the apartments these people inhabit.

Betsy has meanwhile fallen hard for Farscape, and that's been fun to watch. Even her kids like it! Heh.

I'm watching some dvds of dueSouth that a friend lent me, and liking them so far, but not loving them. It's a mid-90s show about a Canadian Mountie (federal policeman, basically) in Chicago. It's quite witty, especially when the Mountie's dead father shows up and starts kibbitzing on his life. Also, there's a wolf, although he's played by a rather unwolf-looking Malamute.

Kate, that sounds awesome, indeed! It's great that you get to meet your Cape Town friends again, on various places around the world. I hope you have a wonderful trip.

What is vegetarian, kosher ham? How does that work?

It's a vegetables product that's supposed to taste like ham. Since it's all vegetarian, there's no problem in it being kosher.

The moment I saw it in the store, I just *had* to buy it, so that I could imagine how actual ham tastes like. I even made poor Perkins taste it so that somebody who knows the taste of actual ham may compare the taste of this imitation to the real thing (she said that the taste is not so similar, but the aftertaste is).

Hi, Perkins! You're all settled in your new place and your new job by now?