It's Already July 9th

A minnow net, a brewski, a pajama man

Wow I am seriously blog-slack-tastic. I am telling you, this pursuit of higher education of mine is really getting in the way of sharing about our daily adventures here with you. The good news: I only have ONE MORE WEEK LEFT! I know, holy mackerel. It's going to feel so good to sit and read the paper, or casually leaf through a magazine, or read any number of books for pleasure. Not that reading my art history textbook isn't pleasurable (it is, occasionally, although it just makes me want to go to Greece, Spain, Egypt and see these things with my eyes, with the exception of the tomb artifacts because there's something wrong with grave digging even in the name of science).

We did have a good Fourth of July, thanks for asking. We went to the thriving metropolitan of Walker where there were some inflated jumpy kingdoms for Ezra to get his yah yahs out- and he did. He jumped and jumped and jumped. Everyone was all dressed up in their red, white and blues (especially the little girls), t-shirts blazing USA pride. While Ezra jumped happily I suddenly realized that I had dressed him in his Guatemala shirt that day- oops! O'well. That night I put him in a red stripey romper so there. He loved the fireworks here in Hackensack, and requests more nightly. Tonight there were some random ones across the lake, so his belief that he governs the world with his desires has been confirmed yet again.

Ezra and I are getting psychologically prepared for our trip to Guate. Ezra has been saying 'gracias' and doesn't tell me to stop speaking Spanish to him (he used to not like my "que quieres mi amorcito" at all).

Sorry it's been so long, in roughly a week I'll post everyday, I promise! I'll tell you all about the interesting life beyond academia! Unless you want to hear about how film adaptations hollywood-ize Asian American literature... send me in email, we'll talk.