fresh start

april fool's day in france means getting a fish slapped on your back while everybody snickers.

spring broke in california offered seven dollars in lottery earnings and sam roth outside redding.
palm springs provided a heated pool every ten feet and freezing temperatures at knott's soak city.

and i lost the only shirt i wear.

dead week

mainly sleepless nights with manu chao on repeat, which prompted me to join couchsurfing.com. doubtful i'll return.

business: multiple bowls of oatmeal, copious amounts of coffee, the odd o.j. and pasta depending on energy/will.
pleasure: nutella+blackberry preserves on dark rye. (and more coffee.)

i cherish those sandwiches for two reasons:
one) they taste like precious stones; and
two) eventually--and fairly consistently--the sandwich begins to take on the shape of minnesota.

iceland overload

in the course of a few days i went from knowing only a handful of facts about iceland such as that naming confusion with greenland and how björk is from there to becoming well-versed in icelandic sagas and food.
like svið:

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and this is what it should look like after!

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which naturally led me back to björk and this article.

"Her daughter is [six] and looks pretty much just like her mom."

i beg to differ;  her daughter does not look forty-four and asian.