On the one hand, I'm eating healthier. On the other, my groceries cost about five times as much as they used to.

Everyone has their own problems, of course, but these seem to irritate me the most. Maybe because I grew up with them.

In which I am not mauled by a bear or a tiger, amazingly.

I did get them back after they were chewed up.

We are clearly not cut out to be buddhists.

It's not an actual soccer ball, happily, or they'd have broken my head by now.

This is why you need a Malian name if you live there--it's hard to get stuff done without it.