So we went to Nagorno-Karabakh, and then we were back here in Armenia for a week, and then I went to Bucharest, and then I went to Chisinau, Moldova.
And then I got sick. Urpy stomach, achey head. Took half an Ambien to help me sleep. Fell into bed at 9:30. Got up around 2 and staggered downstairs to... do something, I'm not sure what. "Well, as long as I'm downstairs, I should check my e-mail," I thought. Claudia found me an hour or so later passed out in front of the computer. Which is a first.
(Yah, first Carlos, then me. Go figure. But he seems to be worse off, so send some love his way.)
And there's so much to blog about! Nagorno, Moldova, Bucharest. Old Bishop Teoctist finally left us at the age of 91, so Romania has a new Patriarch -- a liberal, but he was probably working for the secret police back when, just like everyone else. Sixteen Polish tourists got trapped by avalanches on the Trans-Fagaras Highway last week; as the Romanian English-language paper put it, "the tourists were very surprised to discover a destination where they could die". Armenia's economy is continuing to defy gravity. Nagorno-Karabakh has a new government. There will be a new Chipmunks movie out this winter!
I'll try, I promise, just as soon as my stomach settles down. Meanwhile: open thread.
You know, there's a new tpb out this week with Infectious Lass as one of the co-stars.
Posted by: Carlos | September 17, 2007 at 05:26 PM
See "Beyond Belief."
Open thread. Feh.
Posted by: Noel Maurer | September 17, 2007 at 08:55 PM
hello, Doug. I think that is ambien's whole thing, where one takes it, goes to sleep, then wakes up in the middle of the night to do "something," what they cannot recall, but then they wake fully at 4am, dressed in pajamas, in the backseat of a taxi, alone on a long highway, covered in the dust from cheetoes and also blood.
narrative treatments of numerous anecdotes as such have been in either the ny'er or the nyt a couple of times in the past 6 or 8 months. I think ambien is destined to eventually go the same road as bennies. but who can know?, because quaaludes are making a comeback, I guess.
Posted by: lala | September 17, 2007 at 10:39 PM
Isn't lala's first paragraph roughly what Rep. Kennedy (D-RI) claimed to have happened to him a while back?
Posted by: Dave MB | September 18, 2007 at 12:50 AM
I'm kind of cringing after seeing the poster for the Chipmunks, but maybe it will be relatively painless.
Posted by: Michael | September 18, 2007 at 07:49 AM