It's 4:42pm on Friday as I type these words. I got up early this morning and went back to bed for a few more hours cuz I still have a cough that I just can't seem to get rid of. Getting lots of rest and trying to eat right. Now it's just getting annoying each night when I just lay in bed and as I'm about to fall to sleep I go into a coughing fit. Ugh!

Anyway, I finally got out of the house around 11:00am and got a big steaming hot bowl of south american style chicken vegetable soup for an early lunch. Yum! I was in the mood for a movie so I checked out moviefone.com and found one that sounded interesting, Inside Man and it happened to be playing at my neigborhood theatre, perfect! On my way, I passed by Panera and ran into my guitar student on his coffee break and he offered to buy me a drink so I sat down for a short while (movie wasn't starting for another 30 minutes anyway). While he was inside getting my coffee, I ran into a high school friend who happens to live in the neighborhood. What a small world!

March 24, 2006 12:21pm (taken with my camera phone)

Did you know I went to a British high school in the country of Ghana? Yeah, my mom and stepfather were American diplomats and my brother and I got to live there for two years. It was a very cool experience and it probably was a major factor in spurring my interest in other cultures. Anyway, it turns out my friend Jocie went to school with me in Ghana and now she's sort of my neighbor--she lives like maybe a mile away. And we had a few minutes to catch up on each other's lives. I'm sure I'll run into her again.

Even though I keep odd hours compared to most people with day jobs, it's cool to be able to walk down the street from my house and run into friends on a semi-regular basis. After six months of living in the Pink Flamenco, I'm starting to feel like this is my neighborhood, yay!

Last night, as expected, was a fun night at Las Tapas. The dancers were Edwin Aparicio and Anna Menendez who danced especially well. We all had our reasons for feeling frustrated, tired or otherwise (nothing serious just normal stress) and you'd think it would derail our performance onstage but instead it gave us some emotional energy to channel into the dancing and the music. In the end it was very satisfying. A good night. Thank you Edwin. Thank you Anna.

My office. March 23, 2006 9:12pm

Tonight (Friday), I'm performing at Cabanas in Georgetown. The dancers will be Shahram Tehranian and Mariya. See you there!