Adventures of Isabel

I just listened to some sound recordings I took at the demonstration yesterday (which I’m probably never going to do anything with, because it’s tedious work and time is short) and I couldn’t help but notice that the old standby “el pueblo unido jamás será vencido,” was perhaps not the most appropriate choice for a [...]

Around 150 people (by my notoriously unreliable estimate) gathered today in downtown San Francisco to protest Israeli airstrikes that have killed nearly 300 people in the Gaza Strip.

more pictures on my flickr account.

In preparation for my departure for Cairo this Thursday, I went to the library earlier this week and checked out a couple of guidebooks, basic Arabic self-instruction books, a manual on XML (scripting Arabic is a bit of a nightmare) and a stack of mindless fiction.
So far, I’m making a lot of progress on the [...]

I arrived home to another piece of what I’ve come to refer to as “Jew mail.” In this case, it was a fundraising letter from Peace Now, a pro-two-state solution group that monitors human rights violations by Israeli settlers. But I’m not even going to get into the politics of it, because it’s [...]

Utah may be a bit lacking in street life, but you can almost forget when faced with sights like these:

View a flickr slideshow of images from Utah.
*note to self: polarizing filter is great for snow/water/sky scenes, but next time clean it off better/more frequently.*

So, as you’ve probably noticed, I’ve migrated to Wordpress, and my own domain name. There’s still a LOT of tweaking and customizing I’d like to do, so I haven’t added an automatic re-direct from the old blog yet. But good things are on the way!

I went to a truly beautiful party at the Capoeira Angola Foundation last night — capoeira, live bossanova and samba, Veracruzan dance. By the time midnight rolled around, the party had kicked off, and people were busting out the kind of crazy cumbia and samba moves where you find yourself being flipped over [...]