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Sala

Mahna mahna!

About Me

Ex-expat . . . at least temporarily.

Favorite places: Angkor Wat, Koh Tao, my sofa, Fuji Sengen Jinja, bathtubs, Koya-san, Tokyo, the top of my parents' apple tree, Bristol, Bath, London, underwater.

I live for the following foods: curry, pie, and tea. Do not step between me and any of these items; you will not survive.

"Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God." -- Bokonon

My Interests

rrrunning, dancing, travel, literature, music, cooking/baking, politics, laughter, tea, street art, scuba diving, turntables (scratching!), sumo, ancient ruins, long baths, gadgets, Jude Law

I'd like to meet:

Monkeys.

Art I

Beautiful trees

No print or picture can compare to this painting in person.

Envious of Montreal.

Every wall should be so lucky.

Banksus Militus Ratus

Better than beer
. . . almost.

Racheru-chan

Blackbird

Timantha

B'ill

Avi

Bob

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Music:

...like breathing. (I FIXED MY PIEPOD!!!!!)

Movies:

Adaptation, Amelie, American Beauty, Balzac & the Little Chinese Seamstress, Being John Malkovich, City of God, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Daremo Shiranai (Nobody Knows), Densha Otoko (Train Man), The Godfather, Grave of the Fireflies, Lawrence of Arabia, Love Actually, My Fair Lady, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Princess Bride, Roman Holiday, The Royal Tennenbaums, Run Lola Run, Sideways, Wallace & Grommit, Warai no Daigaku (University of Laughs), Zoolander, anything with Katharine Hepburn & Spencer Tracy, silent movies.

Television:

NPR! (I love you, Ira Glass.)

Books:

Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse 5, Cloud Atlas, Lolita, Middlesex, The Known World, Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution, Daidokoro (Kitchen), Transmission, The Interpreter of Maladies, Chomsky, Murakami, E.E. Cummings, Banksy art books, Postsecret, recipe books.

Other print: The Guardian Weekly (LOVE), sudoku, letters

Now reading: Madam Secretary (memoir of Madeleine Albright), Angela's Ashes & The Logic Games Bible

My Blog

Finally!

I've reached the light at the end of the tunnel, and it isn't an oncoming train after all! ^o^I got an AWESOME job. I live in an awesome city. My awesome friends drove their awesome selves all the ...
Posted by Sala on Tue, 08 May 2007 12:29:00 PST

Men with stuffed animals

Say no.Done? No?Okay, repeat after me, mates--"No." It's just that easy.A man just walked into my office with a stuffed duck. A man in a suit, carrying a stuffed duck. Last Thursday, I met a guy w...
Posted by Sala on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 06:36:00 PST

SNOW

We haven't even really gotten to the middle of October yet, and it's snowing here. SNOWING.Everyone always talks about how unpredictable the weather in England is, but good grief--the weather in Mich...
Posted by Sala on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:15:00 PST

Life in brief

But not in briefs. Stay away from the briefs, men. No one wants to see them, I assure you. Especially those god awful white things. Just a friendly word of advice.So I haven't updated old Frogpants...
Posted by Sala on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 01:40:00 PST