imagine this

a pizza and grilled cheese have a baby. sure it’s a stretch, but hang in there with me. i imagine it’d end up looking like the cousin of a calzone… maybe the half-sibling of a ham and cheese sandwich.

“that’s ridiculous, eric” you say. well, yes, you’re right.

“why would you even think about something so absurd?”

well i’ll tell you…

when i get packages here, they’re often filled with delicious surprises. in my birthday package from my parents was all the stuff to make some homemade pizzas. after the pizzas were eaten (it didn’t take long) i had only used about 1/3 of the pepperonis i’d been sent. now comes the time to get creative. seriously…i can’t let good pepperonis go to waste.

then i got to thinking. i took some fresh, sharp cheddar, some good bread, a little oregano-ish seasoning… okay, okay... so it was a domino’s pizza seasoning… i’ve got limited resources here… added pepperonis and cooked up two delicious grilled pizza sandwiches!

i cut it into "triangles" for illustrative purposes, but i think it made it taste better. something to do with 3rd grade memories i'm sure

mmm… i think i’ll do it again some day soon.

and on a very different note, this reminds of the classic movie… or I think it should be a classic, but hardly anyone has seen it… Hot Rod! near the end of the movie and grilled cheese and a taco battle it. let’s just say the grilled cheese wasn’t as successful in the movie

and just for fun
here's a picture of me dressed up as Hot Rod a couple years ago for halloween.

the hair was fake, but the mustache was real. because as Rod would say, "All great men have mustaches, Frank."



-एरिक

oh, and don't forget to check out my photoblog. www.eric365.wordpress.com

when you see yourself in art

i'm back. after a month+ with no post, i'm hitting it up back to back days. watch out.

and this will be a little different.

there's a really cool artist i've been following for the last few years named Sam Brown. he does drawings (often from reader's ideas) and then posts them online at www.explodingdog.com.

the drawings, mostly stick-figure guys, can be pretty darn clever sometimes. this one i stumbled across this week was just too funny considering the kind of life i live here...


...both in real life (surrounded by cows, but i'm not sure that they love me) and often in my head (i mean seriously, who doesn't want to be a superhero).

-एरिक

it's been a while

Wow… it’s been almost a month and a half since I last updated. I’ve diligently kept my new photoblog (http://eric365.wordpress.com) up to date, but I’ve been on the slacker side over here. Why? Well to be honest, things have just been kind of slow. Mid June rolled around the most of the students rolled out of town. A week or so later the clouds rolled in over the mountains and the rain started up. And it rained and rained. For all of June and first part of July my language school was closed. It seems like this city just slowed down to a creeping crawl.

I planned to get away and head north with a friend to his hometown for a while, but things got tense in that area of the country, travel shut down, and it just wasn’t going to be safe. So we stayed here.

We’ve done some fun things for sure though. Let’s see:

We had Prem’s boys over for a slumber party.

We took a day and went up to the nearby hill station when Lindsay’s friends came into town.

We learned how to make momos at Prem’s house in honor of my birthday (and I turned 23).

And I got a new expansion for Catan, so we’ve been played it a lot.

That’s the sort of things that have kept me occupied over the last few weeks.

This has also just been a good time of refreshment for me. In the beginning it was honestly a little frustrating. I had been SO busy for the previous couple of months that I didn’t really know what to do with myself. After a while though I realized that having some down time was good, and I’ve used it as a time to get myself ready for the busy school year that’s to come. I’ve done a fair bit of reading and relaxing, spent time encouraging the friends who’ve stayed here in town, and tried to spend time working on my language.

That being said, students are arriving back in town this week, so the pace of things will be picking up a lot from here on.

And with things being busier, I’ll hopefully do a better job of keeping you update on how life is going here on the subcontinent.

-एरिक