Fancy hotel

Today is Liz's 33rd birthday. Here is my monkey, Enchephalitis, celebrating while enjoying a cup of coffee and lounging in our fancy hotel room in St. Louis. I ask you, is there a more spoiled monkey anywhere? He gets to hang out drinking coffee -- later, he's going to go to the pool to work on his tan -- whereas I have to do a presentation on chronic homelessness to a conference of generally uninterested people.

(He is named Encephalitis "because he has a big head!" A gift from my friend Melissa, I was only permitted to keep him on the condition that I did not change his name.)

In Celebration of Monkey Day...

... also known as Davi Durki's Birthday (September 2), I made a monkey cake to take to work. In its final presentation, the cake had no ears -- they didn't fit on the plate, so I ate them for breakfast.