The Kool-Aid will have to wait...

That's what I get for counting my trips before they're...um, hatched. Guyana has been pushed off until April, mostly because my counterpart in Georgetown is being (as a colleague for whom I have the utmost admiration put it) a "manbitch". That's okay, though because I'm not exactly looking forward to going back. In fact, I'm totally cool with not going back ever, but that's not really an option. My other trip that was supposed to happen now-ish was to Belgrade. If you've been watching the news, you get why that trip is postponed. A little matter of a mob setting part of the U.S. Embassy on fire and all. We'll go when things are a tad friendlier!

In case my previous post regarding music worried you, it worried Zach too. He said I was "letting myself go". Like listening to (and admitting listening to) Justin Timberlake and the Black Eyed Peas is the sonic equivalent of going to the grocery store barefoot and wearing hair curlers. Fear not, I usually temper my online music purchases of Top 40 crap with something a little more respectable, at least so I can justify also liking the crap. My new favorite song is MGMT's "Time to Pretend". It's one of those songs I'll make myself sick-to-death-of within weeks because I hit repeat at least twice every time it comes up on my iPod. Another song that I really want to buy, but can't find, is Bohses Madchen ("Bad Girls") by K.I.Z. I heard it on German MTV while in Turkey. I feel like it's okay to like mass-produced MTV hip hop intended for people 10 years my junior if it's German. Regardless, check it out for yourself at YouTube. (Try not to let the goofy white dude doing backflips and making stupid faces ruin it for you.)