Thank you for saying that, Claudia!  You seem to know just when I need to hear a kind word!  I know being compared to Peaches is your highest compliment!

I always appreciate your creative spelling!  Its way more interesting and understandable than regular spelling!  Why did anyone think that G and H should ever go together? Like the word LAUGH.  The L and A are fine, but then its like someone started spelling a totally different word!

Yes, its just so important to get away from everything or we would creatively dry up! Do you have walks that you can take nearby your cousin's house?  I worry that with so much activity in your house that you aren't getting away by yourself to recharge.  Is there a park nearby where you can be alone to relax?

Nineteen days in school is nineteen days too many!  After such a short holiday and being so busy the whole time you are not rested enough to start school even with long weekends.  And don't start thinking about Mr. Zorzi!  He may be an ocean away, but that is still way too close!

Not big tests so soon!!  How can they teach enough for a big test in just a month? Is the ceremony better than classes, though?  Each time you tell me about people fainting!  Make sure to drink lots of water!

I'm totally okay, thank you!  And when you mentioned the chocolate I was already back from the hospital so I was allowed to eat again!  I didn't even realize how hungry I was.  But since I hadn't been to bed the night before and was just about to try to have a little sleep, eating a chocolate rabbit first probably…

I did fast! I followed all the rules!  My digestive system BETRAYED ME.

Yeah, I can imagine Dawn's house maybe smells a little like pot sometimes.  Not from Dawn, but from Dawn's mum or maybe her old hippie friends.  Although I can't imagine Mr. Spier liking that very much!  They are married now, right?

How did I not think of cheesecake in chocolate!  You keep mentioning foods that are ALL OF THEM my favourite foods in the world!  Layer cake, brownies, and now cheesecake!  COVERED IN WARM MELTED CHOCOLATE.  I'm hurting from hungryness!  Claudia, I had to fast yesterday for tests this morning but now I CAN FINALLY EAT…

How can this possibly be your OTHER barf story?  Its got everything, most important ROMANCE but also a repulsive feat of magic, and of course the horrifying mystery of the empty glass.

ENTER THE MOST DISGUSTING BARF STORY CHALLENGE AND WIN $$$

You are having so many strange dreams lately!  And Janine keeps popping up in them, I wonder what that means?  Especially Janine smoking pot!  Have you told her about this dream?  Would she laugh or be horrified? And why so much ghostly stuff in your dreams?  Well, right now I think you have been so emotionally buried…

Claudia, before I ask about anything else, did you just say you DIPPED A BROWNIE IN CHOCOLATE FONDUE?  !!!  Where did you find a fondue in New York?  I mean, obviously there must be fondues there but its not exactly the first thing that comes to mind with NYC, ha ha!  BROWNIE DIPPED IN MELTED CHOCOLATE.  Its all I can…

I'm happy to know you have arrived safe and sound!  You must be so tired.  I'm not surprised you are having nightmares. But I don't know why you'd have a nightmare like that!  Hopefully you will be able to relax a bit now.

You know how sometimes when you've been housecleaning for hours you wish you could just fill your entire house with water, swish it around a bit and then drain the water out again?  Well, that actually just makes your house dirtier.  Its better to stick with a duster and a mop.

If we're going to get that specific, I want to remove the people yelling HEY! in Delius' Eventyr. At first I tolerated them because I figure, its his music, if he thinks those HEY!s need to be there, who am I to argue?  I'm listening to it right now just to see if I'm overreacting and I AM NOT.  I want those stupid…

I don't want to turn it into a hagiography, ha ha!  (Full disclosure: the working title is "Binky: A Hagiography".)

What about making stuff up for autobiographies, is that still okay?

You are going to be so tired by the time you get back!  Not just from going nonstop and from the flight, but just emotionally from all the hugs and goodbyes. I hope its not too upsetting for you. Poor Claudia, I'm glad you will have time to relax and do nothing for awhile after you arrive. Please don't say you have to…

* Dept of Truth's widow collapses on post, soaking it in tears of laughter and sorrow; world watches and laughs/weeps with her *