vagueries
I apologize sincerely for being so vague on the blog lately. I haven’t explained where I’m currently living or what my new job is or even where I am as I type this (Cambodia!).
Here are some tidbits of information:
- After much weeping and gnashing of teeth (really – I spent the morning pouting in my guesthouse room in a way that only I know how to do) I have been approved for a new Thai visa. I will pick it up in a few days.
- Meanwhile, I am in Kampot, home to the world’s highest quality pepper. Would you like some?
- I spent my pseudo-vacation visiting memorial sites of the genocide in Cambodia. Typical (of me). Haunting.
- I’m getting addicted to coffee again. This isn’t good.
- I was yoohoo-ing around my current guesthouse, trying to find someone who knew the password to the internet. Instead, I found a Khmer family who invited me to sit down and eat sweets with them. They were the best sweets I’ve had in Southeast Asia! So much powdered sugar. (The perks of being a solo female traveler are so many)
- The matriarch (and cook) of the guesthouse, offerer of the sweets, recently professed her like of me.
- Then she told me that she had a son that I could marry.
- I told her I was tooooo young to get married.
- I found the most amazing smelling cinnamon soap this morning and I didn’t buy it. The second I am done with visa matters when I’m back in Phnom Penh, I will buy some. If this region of the world can’t produce decent cinnamon-y desserts, at least I can smell like one.
- I am not feeling especially visually stimulated by this trip, but I’ll see what pictures I come up with.
