my food is...
11 am-

April 19?! April 19. Who can believe that.

I?m feeling a little nostalgic for America today. I?ve got this Hopper painting as the wallpaper on my laptop right now - typical Hopper scene, men in black and a woman in red at an all night diner. Man, I can?t tell you how much I would love to be at an all night diner right now - or at Cottham?s. Eat some real greasy hamburger and fries, lots of ketchup, and a chocolate shake. Little Caesar?s pizza, Blue Bell ice cream, Schlostzky?s sandwiches, Chik-fil-a, fountain Cokes, tomato soup and grilled cheese. Mama?s lasagna, flank steak, twice baked potatoes, spinach-artichoke dip, baby blue salad, homemade bread and muffins. Freebird?s burritos.

Hot pavement, parking lots, cars and traffic rules, the Lake of the Ozark?s. College Station. The food.

Maybe I?m not nostalgic, I?m just hungry. But my food, supposedly, is to do the will of him who sent me. Still working on that one.

8pm - Just to update you on this eating theme, which I'm sure is extremely important to your life, tonight I cooked squid for the first time. We can call it calimari if that makes you feel better. I live twenty minutes from the ocean, and squid is plentiful and cheap and delicious. I don't think I had ever eaten it before coming to Vietnam, but now I really like it. I don't know if it's really healthy - I know it has protein, but - is it a scavenger? If you know, please email me. Anyway, it's probably not healthy the way I cooked it, dipped in flour and fried. Yum. We also made twice-baked potatoes and we had fresh watermelon for dessert. I'm quite content.