beaches and volcanos

i'm currently trying to upload pictures onto facebook after attempting to download adobe flash player twice on this computer, failing, and resorting to uploading one picture at a time the slow way. this rush of western impatience is strange. i've gotten used to waiting for people, places, and all other nouns. but faced with a computer, i'm again jittery with impatience, the disease of my generation.

we're in mataram, the capital junkyard city of lombok. lombok itself is one of the most beautiful places i've been.

oops, gotta bounce. maybe i'll find a gorengan (street food where they fry anything and everything) on the way back to the hotel !