Monthly Archives: February 2012
Runners Up
In June 2011 I moved into my current apartment. By August 2011 the bad lighting in my living room had made me want to gnaw off my arms and legs. Because I was working too many hours at the law firm to figure out how to do that, I decided to try an alternative: I launched a lamp-finding […]
Eating Blind
If I eat something fun but can’t post pictures on my blog, does it count? Today I had brunch with a friend at Founding Farmers and dinner with another friend at Ren’s Ramen — but I have no pictures to share because my camera is enjoying an extended stay in Guatemala City. (Oops.) So you’ll just have […]
Dinner Party Conversations
I went to a dinner party tonight after work. It was hosted by the same woman who threw the New Year’s Eve party that I almost completely missed. As I’d expected, it was full of interesting people: there was an environmental lawyer, a graduate student in social work, an environmentalist who works at the World Wildlife Foundation […]
The Sues
I love the small world of international travel – especially in small countries with relatively few international flights. At the coffee finca on Sunday, our tour group consisted of Jennifer, Mark and me, and a passel of British retirees who were all named Sue. (Well, the man’s name may have been John, but there were […]
Guatemala, Day 3 – Sunset on a clear night
For all of the less than wonderful aspects of Guatemala City, it remains nonetheless remarkably situated from a geographical perspective. The surrounding volcanoes provide an exotic backdrop and frame beautiful sunsets. Haze had prevented my seeing them the past few days, but today the air cleared enough to appreciate the view. The climate is also incredible […]
Guatemala, Day 3 – Splendido
For our last dinner, we went to a small restaurant called Splendido with another of Jennifer and Mark’s friends — a girl our age named Dani (not sure if I spelled that right) who works at USAID with Mark. Like the crew I met the other night, she seemed like a fun person; the sort you’d […]
Guatemala, Day 3 – Ummm
Computer? What computer?
Guatemala, Day 3 – Vieja Ciudad
This afternoon Jennifer and I (while Mark finished work), went out to explore the colonial center of Guatemala City. This is the old city core that was founded in the early 1500s and which became the colonial capital in 1776 after Antigua was destroyed by an earthquake. Unlike Antigua, the colonial city has not been […]
Guatemala, Day 3 – Brunch at Jean Francois
Both Jennifer and Mark technically had today off from work (Mark because he gets all the US holidays, and Jennifer because she just took the day off), but both of them needed to take care of a few work-related things during the late morning. So rather than plan big activities throughout the day, we opted […]
Guatemala, Day 2 – Night In
We got back from Antigua shortly before 5pm and were all feeling a bit droopy. It’s not like we’d done anything particularly strenuous — just walked around the town, picked some coffee beans, and enjoyed a delightful and filling lunch — but still, we weren’t going to make it through the rest of the evening […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 