My, he, I.

[whatho]

My cousin put her cardigan on yesterday to keep out the chill. Mother expressed surprise at how she could be cold when it was 25 degrees and everyone else was sweating. Cousin said 'It's because I'm thin and I have only my cardigan to keep me warm.'

'What?' Mother refrained from saying. 'Unlike the rest of us under our quivering great mounds of blubber?' Mother is very restrained.

Cousin also threw away all the green bits of our lettuce, and then ate the entire head.

Brother's having difficulty being a vegetarian in China and teaching sullen people from a text book they all hate. Mother advised him to follow the pattern of CJ Lamb in LA Law when she made the Bulgarian law students do their lessons in the swimming pool and sing a lot. I love it when LA Law becomes a guide for life.

He doesn't like the squat toilets either. I offered my wisdom on this matter. I told him he would develop big strong thighs. He'll be up again about now. It's 7.30am there.

I have not been hungry since last Thursday, when I ate half a slice of Mississippi Mud Pie and then stopped. I don't feel ill. I just don't feel hungry. I feel tired, possibly because I don't feel hungry. I haven't written since last Thursday either. Someone hit my off switch last Thursday. I have read four Hindi lessons out of my Teach Yourself Hindi book. So that's something.

My favourite Hindi word is 'Paramparar'. It means 'tradition', but it sounds like a trumpet.

I'm going to bed now. Everyone else went to bed two hours ago, so I think it's my turn.

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[girlofprey.livejournal.com]

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Your cousin is horrendous.

That doesn't quite describe my uncomprehending horror, but it's the best word I have.

I regularly go for weeks without feeling hungry. I think hormones have a lot to do with it. And sleep. And probably your AWFUL COUSIN distracted you from food somewhat. Your current diet still includes Missippi Mud Pie though, so it's clearly not dire just yet.

[whatho.livejournal.com]

I continue to feel quite reassured that my cousin does come across as horrendous. I am reflecting on her with baffled amusement. Nothing in her manner comes across as anything other than polite and helpful and lacking extremes of emotion. It's just everything she does that's so awful. She doesn't burn down orphanages. She just comes here all the time when we've dropped hints that sometimes we are quite busy or tired or wanting to spend time with people who aren't her, and she wants us to do entertaining things, like running, and has no ability to recognise that this makes us unhappy and she stares at us and follows us and wants to be completely the centre of attention and has NO IDEA and throws away the lettuce. HELP.

I am eating things. I just feel I needn't. Generally I am a very hungry person. Possibly it will come back soon, then I'll wonder why I missed it. I do miss the part of the pie I shunned. That seems practically evil.