Crystal’s Adventures

It’s in my oven right now, and it smells so good!
2.5 - 3 lbs of meaty chicken pieces (breast halves, thighs, drumsticks)
1 TBS finely shredded lime peel
1/4 cup lime juice
1 TBS cooking oil
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 teaspoon dried thyme or basil, crushed
1 teaspoon black pepper
1/4 teaspoon salt
Step 1: Skin chicken if you want to be [...]

Does anyone else think that windchimes are totally creepy?

Everything I know about packing I learned from my friend Carly.
Here’s what I plan to bring for 3.5 months in Asia, all of which will fit inside my small old backpack:
2 long-sleeve lightweight cotton blouses
1 button-down, sleeveless linen shirt (to wear on plane)
1 linen tank top
1 lightweight cardigan (to wear on plane)
1 khaki below-the-knee skirt
1 [...]

Today I got shot #2 of, uh, dried infected rodent brain tissue. “Japanese Encephalitis Virus vaccine is an inactivated vaccine derived from infected mouse brain.”
Suffering neither facial swelling nor respiratory distress, I rode my bike to the park to read The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint.
Then I met my dad at the bubble tea [...]

So, it’s all set. I will fly to Bangkok from New Orleans on May 12th to start work (on May 16th) at the UNESCO Bangkok’s Regional Bureau of Education on their adolescent reproductive health Web site.
From June 13th to June 24th, I’ll take an intensive Tulane University course in Bangkok and Chiang Mai called “Thailand’s [...]

Test post on Crystal’s first Web log ever!