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reading the newspaper and crying, wishing Bush would get
the hell out of office...
when i was a baby, my mom sang lullabies to me in Basque...
i wish i had a garden -- i wish we had a house! -- if we had a garden, i'd plant: cherry trees, a sycamore tree with big, wet leaves in the spring, azaleas (many), bougainevillea, ivy (lots), climbing roses, raspberries, currants, an apricot tree, probably a maple tree, a thai hot pepper plant, mixed spring greens, carrots, lavendar, mint, rosemary, forget-me-nots
loves: gelato, no wars, chocolate, novels, anthropomorphism, sales (discounts), adobe, coffee: Haitian bleu, espresso, tea: oolong, jasmine pearl, pu'erh, darjeeling
hates: suvs, bureaucracy & paperwork, corporate speak
favorite restaurants: ararat (austin), battambang (oakland), borobudor (sf), cha am (berkeley, sf), cherry st. veg (philly), chicago diner (chicago), curra's (austin), dara thai/lao (berkeley), hov (NYC), japantown (sf), java noodle (austin), millenium (sf), no name sushi (sf), pho 888 (austin), rangooon (philly), snail thai (chicago), sorabol (sf), sunflower (austin), thai passion (austin), ti cuz (sf), various holes-in-the-wall in Yunnan, dim sum!!
favorite museums: univ. of pennsylvania museum of anthropology and archaeology (philly), british museum, oriental institute (chicago), elizabeth stewart gardner museum (boston), the met, anywhere with a good egyptology dept.
passionate desire: to move to a blue state a.s.a.p.
