I ate pizza for dinner Saturday night

We went to The Pizza Company Saturday night for dinner, a big chain in a mall, and had pizza and some other Italian food. The "Cambodian Spaghetti" surprised me in two ways. First, I was impressed at how well the spaghetti was cooked, considering it had been pan friend in a wok. Second, there was a chili stuck to the underside of a large piece of pancetta, which I unwittingly ate. The pizza itself was pretty good, once I realized that it wasn't still oven-hot (that was the chili). We had Thom Yum pizza (yes, like the soup) with limes to squeeze on top, and a pork/pineapple/hot dog pizza, with a cheesy hot dog baked into the crust. Definitely unusual, but not something I think would be too beyond the imagination of CPK.

Sometimes I feel like I work at a music factory. Sorry, that seems to imply that working conditions are bad, which they're not. But I sit in an office, and sometimes in a room with a piano, and little projects -- I mean students -- filter in and out, in and out, coming away with slight improvements each time. There's pretty much always classical music being played somewhere, and every time I walk up or down the stairs I feel like I'm in a Cambodian version of Billy Elliot. Or something.

It's sort of weird having a work schedule that basically consists of a bunch of scheduled appointments. Somehow it feels different from my other teaching gigs.

Mosquitoes are a fact of life here, which I'm going to have to just accept. I've been wearing long pants exclusively this week, and as a result I only have 7 bites on my left foot and 11 on my right. I spend most of my time in an air conditioned office, mind you, but apparently my time in the semi-enclosed kitchen and second floor are enough to garner me an attack. I'm wearing leggings and a skirt today, but I've already been bitten three times through my leggings, so I can tell you exactly how much longer this is going to last. Best get myself to the market tomorrow and buy some more pants. The upside to working in air conditioning is that it makes it actually comfortable to wear pants.