Day 3

Not much to say that hasn't already been said today on MSN...and telephone..which btw...is the best spent $3 a minute ever...and cheaper than those late-night party chat lines (so I hear...)

Anyways. Just thought I'd post here incase you can't open the email...


----- Original Message -----
From: Ginger
To: Parkes
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 10:17 PM
Subject: cute kids

Hey (insert silly pet name here)

As we were talking (which btw - went so fast - 15 minutes felt like 15 secs! IMY!!!) I found this great photo on the 'net of kids in Uganda. It makes me smile...and I thought it might make you do the same...:)

I hope you are okay for the next few days...I think it might be a bit hard for you - only because you are such a softie (once referred to as "bleeding heart liberal" - which I'm sure said name-caller regrets and now takes back...) Just please be strong and know that you will make a difference to a lot of these people - even if you can't just bring some little ones home as requested. We are so soooo unbelievably lucky (or "spoiled" as someone once referred to someone else - though am sure said name caller/bleeding heart liberal now regrets same and takes it back...) to live where we do (by birth or by choice.) I watched a documentary tonight on sweatshops in China - called "Mardi Gras - Made in China" which showed the factory where the beads (beads for boobs) are made...and just contrasted how hard these people worked for 10 cents an hour making strings of beads...and how hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of these beads are simply tossed about like nothing in New Orleans. (don't I recall...? ;) Very interesting concept - very poorly directed IMNSHO (see that you've done to me???!!) and all I could think was "Parkes could have so done this show so much better..."

Anyway. I digress. All I'm saying is that we are lucky and I am sorry I am a whiner about missing you...I just do...and can hardly wait 'til you are back in this country safe and sound...(though noting a forest fire could break out at anytime)...splitting that $75 bottle of Malbec with me - even if some Argentinean boy only got paid 3 cents to make it.

Chat soon...
~G