Slowin’ it down?

Here in Atitlán, time moves slowly.  Sometimes it seems to stand still, and when you’re at the market or walking on certain streets, it seems to flow backwards. So it’s no wonder that in 3 weeks I still feel jumpy and hyper, like my brain is moving faster than the aquarium in which it finds itself. I’ve been passing the time by sanding and restaining some wooden things we use in the house – shelves, a coat rack, a rocking chair –and I’m watching the hummingbirds when they come to feed. Still, I’m asking myself when my Shanghai-addled internal clock will sync to ‘Pana time,’ because it definitely hasn’t happened yet.

As an aside, Facebook might be trite and ridiculous, but it was still cool getting birthday wishes from all over the globe…