Rwanda

I'm glad to report that the bloggers have returned. The migration back to their computers and winter homes has been completed and I have plenty to read once more.

As for me, life remains quite slow. Two friends have returned for two weeks each from Asia and we are spending as much time listening to their stories of bug eating and toilet etiquette as possible.

I can, however, now recommend "Hotel Rwanda," which I saw this weekend. It's a great movie, but you might want to pack some extra tissues when you go. It is well done and well acted, if perhaps not exactly what happened. But it is a movie and thus a little condensing of events had to occur. For more on the 1994 Rwandan massacre I'd recommend reading "We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families" by Philip Gourevitch. It's an incredible book and includes the story of Paul Rusesabagina, but gives a more complete picture of what happened there and how the world ignored it. You will read it with your mouth open.

Watch out for flying bugs.

A quick wrap up

Since last I wrote I have been witness to the largest private display of fireworks ever set off on a city street; finished my creativity class; seen "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" twice and also "Blade Trinity," "In Good Company," and "Kinsey" (once each); finished "The Best of Times" by Haynes Johnson (competing for the world's longest book); typed the word "biotech" 212 times; and finally today had a woman ask me if I'd seen a chicken on Main Street.

It's been a strange beginning to 2005.