Próximo viaje (grande)

Late February - early March 2009. My current (fluid) plan is to spend a couple days in Barranquilla for Carnaval, then head to the Santa Marta area for some hiking and diving. Then I'll spend a couple of days in Cartagena before heading to Bogota to wrap up the trip. Ya no puedo esperar.

Kitchen gadgets

Why do I want this salt pig? Maybe because I'm tired of opening and closing a torn plastic bag to get sea salt. Or maybe because I have a thing for kitchen gadgets. Spending close to $40 for what is basically a ceramic bowl to hold salt is a little ridiculous, but this design is clearly superior to its cheaper cousins. It is functional, I would use it, and it would look cool in my kitchen. And I would get purple or green, or, since this is a fancy-pants salt pig made in France, "fig" ou "vert."

Cable

I don't have cable. For the past 10 years, I've either managed without a TV, managed with broadcast television, or, in the past two years, managed with a 2 disc per month subscription to Netflix. And it's been fine.

But sometimes I crave a Real World or Ab Fab marathon, or non-stop cable news even though I know all of it is garbage. This craving has become especially intense over the past week, when our national political scene has become an episode of "The Jerry Springer Show." I can only imagine the fun Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert are going to have with this election season.

But I think it boils down to the fact that I am cheap. $50 - 80 per month is kind of steep, especially when I could spend it on something else or hoard it for my post-clerkship vacation. Speaking of which, the job search has begun anew, and it feels like a repeat of last year so far.