did you remember to log off?

damn blogging is hard to keep up with when you're on the internet maybe once a week. i just bought a ticket to visit jenna in mid-novembah

yay!

also, john harvey and i got selected to be the lawrence members of the us-el salvador sister cities national board. woot woot! conference calls once a month and 2 face-to-face meetings/year. also, emily, a sister cities staff, invited me to tag along with them on the speaking tour after the national gathering in october. it's a huge privilege (from my point-of-view). i'm very excited about that and still planning to volunteer there for a year starting august 2009. good friends are more than welcome to stay with me for any amount of time during that year.

last week i worked for 2 days on a lavendar farm, harvesting and drying lavendar. and eating yummy food with kathy and jack. kathy used to be a food photographer, and was a star in that field. she mostly did cook books and some cooking magazines. i've always wondered about the people whose job it is to take pics of meals (though i was more curious about restaurants) and i've learned that at least one of them is pretty fucking rad.

still merc-ing and farming and arting and swimming (a.m.a.p.)

i miss all of you beautiful friends!

neesa i hope you've been having a rock-out time with your visitors, i'm going to visit you after i graduate before i go to el salv. what's a good month for that?

jenna, i can't wait to see you in november. meow.

ilenia, i can't wait till you come to lawrence in september

AND i want letters from you ALL!

love,
sal