I just spoke to my grandma on the phone and she said they got a new swimming pool at home. Actually, the entire first floor flooded and our entire extended family is living together on the second story.

Following the Filipino channel diligenty lately, watching footage of waist-deep water and babies being floated along the top, dry in their plastic bathtubs. It looks like Katrina except not; the people don't exude the same spirit of mourning or anger.

We were going to fly there in December for a wedding but are considering sending our airfare as support instead. I was drafting a long complaint entry about AirEuropa lamenting my lost luggage, but that seems inappropriately and childishly trivial at the moment.

Longer udpate later, off to wait tables and ponder what it is I'm saving money for.

xo