This is a picture of a cool cultural experience that I witnessed last night. Our good friend, Jen P, is moving to Utah to set up shop while her husband is training in Texas (I think) for his next air force job. Her neighbor is this cool woman from Pakistan, and in celebration of her journey and confusion and pregnancy, etc, brought over a cone full of mendhi, which I guess is the proper term for a specific type of henna, and drew something like the above on her hand and fingers, all the while telling her stories of the crazy-accurate predictive nature of mendhi-tattooing. One example: the night before said Pakistani lady got engaged, her friend gave her a mendhi drawing on her hand of a big splotch, with three lines on each of two sides and five lines on the other two sides. She also drew a single line on her ring finger. The next day her husband proposed, and gave her a ring with a large central diamond with three stones around it, and five stones on each side of the central stone on the band. Coincidence? Her friend denies any pre-knowledge of the details of the ring, even though she knew the boyfriend would propose soon.

In other news:
We are moving. Hooray!
I might get this sweet job. Hooray!
Happy Birthday, Albert Camus.