Of Futbol Rivalries and Outer Space

 

Sundays are particularly silent in the city and today it will be exceptionally so as everyone parks themselves in front of a TV to watch one of the biggest futbol rivalries in the world: Boca Juniors vs. River Plate.  

This being a TV-free apartment and me being unwilling to fork over the $600 (correction $1050) pesos many tourists pay to see the match live, Leah and I are once again grateful to Seba, in whose home we will watch the showdown.  I've yet to choose where my loyalties lie.  Although, a couple of weeks ago I did run into some Boca players.  Literally.  Their mammoth bus was blocking the sidewalk in front of the 5 star Intercontinental Hotel, and, consequently, my way to work.  Grumpily I took a detour around the front of the bus and who should be disembarking but a flurry of blue and yellow.  Cool. Some of my futbol fanatic students salivated over this story.

Transitionless change of topic!

There is special and senseless pleasure that can be found in baking a cake for absolutely no reason.  Sitting around and chatting about our futures: dream jobs, studies, husbands, and homes, Leah and I felt the urge to make this Purposeless Cake.   Baking in our oven is a gamble, with no way to gauge the temperature, but success was in our stars.  The excess batter poofed up out of the little pan and resulted in this beautiful moon rising on our dessert.  

Cut it in half with a layer of dulce de leche and covering with frosting, the cake accompanied our coffee and conversation delightfully.  What a lovely but foreign feeling being able to offer the occassional passersby or visitor a slice of cake!  How domestic of us!

Finally, I leave you with a picture of the artwork newly adorning our kitchen walls.  My flatmate Guille is the visionary and my other flatmate Arjun took the initiative to frame it and put it on the wall.  This masterpiece is dated 10 April, 2008 from Leah's 1/2 Birthday Celebration where we played Pictionary at Jobs, an awesome bar with not only pool and darts, but also archery and board games.  Imagine, if you will, that you are playing Pictionary and this is what you've got to go on...  Any guesses?

That's right!  2001 Space Odyssey. Priceless, Guille!