PAGPAPASALAMAT!!

maraming salamat, asante sana, cnacuba, muchas gracias, merci, agyamen ti adu!
anyway you say it, it means "thanks man!" and since this is the season of

thanksgiving I thought I would offer a little listing of my many blessings (and would welcome any lists.long or short.from all of you.in comments or emails).
I Am thankful for:

the kindness of cab drivers
Boston architecture & pizza
making rent for the first time since I've moved here
Mel Torme when I'm lonely
Burl Ives when I'm sad
my new friend Abby (who got me kicked out of choir for laughing)
humor !
my mismatched christmas socks (from TP?I think)
kittergurl hugs
how untouchable I feel when I'm running
Khristian and Buena's (two of my best friends in the Peens) decisions to serve a mission
potty humor and people who appreciate it
phone calls from my Mom
my indian roommate singing in the shower
Christmas smells:cinnamon, ginger, nutmeggy
super cheese Christmas music I LOVE IT!
christmas! (ang pasko ay sumapit!!!)
my Dr Spock bangs
the privilege to study at BU
my pretty freestyle
above all: the free will to love whom I will, come hell or high water-reciprocity or rejection.
and I do.

Happy Thanksgiving.I'm grateful for all of you
meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeErin

oui! I have changed my blog language to French and it's pretty fun! Okay, here is the condom ad I created for one of my classes--thought you'd all enjoy it. I guess you have to click on it to see it--c'est triste! ha ha. The "saja" brand is made up. It's a project for social marketing which is this capitolistic idea that selling a product will do more to change behavior than teaching better behavior. I'm kind of sceptical (Upton Sinclair love me, I've always been a bit of a socialist)--but it was fun making up my character. Our aim is 15-24 year old women in Indonesia--hence the head scarf.

two things

I kicked a goose and I ate caviar.
I always liked sushi with the "little round orange things" on it and I've always wanted to try caviar to see what it was like. Well, tonite eating my sushi I realized that they are one and the same. amazing
I kicked the goose because it was in my way on a run and I didn't realize that geese are a lot lazier/slower than ducks.

Wednesday!

well wednesday has become such a mad dash. I nanny from 7:45am (which puts me out the door by 7:30, up before 7! for me right now in my life this is crazy early) until 5pm, at which point I make a mad dash to catch a 30 min shuttle to the medical campus, take a 2 hour Epidemiology class and then 30 min. back on the shuttle. By the time I am home (like right now) I start to envy things like the alphabet pasta in my soup It is fun to be a nanny-for 20 hours a week I'm paid to pretend to be a homemaker and it makes me realize (sorry) just how really much that is not for me. Not that I don't love my job. I do! Today I got paid 12 bucks an hour to fold laundry while singing to Joni Mitchell! (while the girls were all at school) that's good stuff and I like the parts when they're home as well. BUT I think the reason I like it is because negotiating how many muffins is too many muffins with a 2 year old is SO different from my usual everyday stresses. It's fun to do dishes when your other choice is calculating the prevalence of schistosomiasis (cause I do that a lot)
Kudos to mothers that do it all the time. Kudos to women who don't go mad. I think my soup has cooled down and now I am so hungry. good night

It's been on a little while, and I so I am just shouting out
SHOUT