pepper paper peepers

I roasted some peppers last night. Mmm mm.

A restaurant we went to in Alexandria misspelled "peppers" as both "papers" and "peepers" in the same menu, hence the title for today's post... as well as the inspiration to roast some pepper... paper peepers.

saving myself from emphysema

Ben, Max and I went up to Alexandria for the weekend. We basically sat around and ate and read and breathed in the fresh, unpolluted air. It was fantastic. Apparently, Cairo is the 2nd most polluted city in the world after Delhi, and the average Cairene ingests more than 20 times the acceptable level of air pollution a day. Yum.

you can't wish for more wishes

Another picture from the desert, this time of an oasis in Baharia, with hot springs and everything. Also where Genie helped Aladdin escape to after being trapped by Jaffar in the cave where he found the lamp. For real.

squishy and fleshy

I stepped on a dead cat today.

I was walking home from work around 7pm and when I turned onto my street, I stepped down from the curb and my foot encountered something squishy and fleshy. I stumbled a little and almost took a spill, and for the split second while it was still a possibility that I'd fall on my face, I thought that I'd stepped on a human body part, perhaps a thigh or kidney. I managed to recover and not make a fool of myself, and when I looked at what I had stepped on, I realized it was a dead orange and white calico cat.

:-(
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daily dairy

I eat laughing cow cheese a lot for lunch. It's good with tomatoes and bread. Mmm cheap and creamy.

what's this liquid falling from the sky?

I woke up this morning to what I thought was a truck backfiring, but it turned out to be thunder! Yeah, it actually RAINED in Cairo today. And for more than 10 minutes too! You can't really see the rain in this picture, but look at those clouds.

Max doing what I can only guess is a rain dance. Or rather a holy-crap-it's-raining-in-the-desert happy dance.

back from london

I look like an idiot, but Jon and Goutami look badass.

i'm going to london!

My cousin is flying me to London for Eid! Isn't she grand? I'm leaving tomorrow morning and getting back on Monday night. We'll see if my bank balance can handle this...

now in color!

I bought this journal from the bookbinders behind al-Azhar Mosque the other day. I don't actually journal, but it was too damn pretty not to buy. I have to figure out what to use it for.

green on green

The other day, Ben found a worm in one of the green peppers he bought. It seems to have laid eggs and everything. Delicious!

symmetry is kind of rad

Somewhere in Islamic Cairo again.

dammit there's sand in my eye!

I need more contact lenses. Crap.