Today, I gave a lecture on mood disorders (depression and bipolar disorder) to hospital staff. The lecture was scheduled for 1:00 PM, and at 1:10 when no one had shown up, I thought there must not have been any interest, and I almost left. However, the internet connection in the conference room is good (thanks to InterVol and Doran Mix, the med student here over the summer), so I decided to stay and do some work. Around 1:25, the nurse practitioner who had asked me to give the lecture came, and 10 minutes later, the room was packed with 20 people. I should have known -- the lecture was 1:00 PM *Belize time*. So, I gave my teaching session and it went great! The group had such a vivacious sense of humor that by the end, when people were asking questions, everybody was laughing big laughs, several people slapping their thighs. One staff member, as he left, said, “At first the people didn’t want to come, and now they don’t want to leave.”

A few nights ago, I was driving home from yoga around 6 PM. It had just gotten dark, but there was a full moon. I saw something I hadn’t seen before -- hundreds of crabs, crossing the road. Each one was about the size of my palm or slightly larger, and their eyes, sitting atop their eye-stalks, gleamed eerily in the light of the moon. A crustacean blanket across the road, it was impossible to avoid the crunch of a few unlucky ones under my tires. The road was still partially flooded, and suddenly I saw a slithering across the road -- a crocodile! It was probably about 5 feet long, and about 5 feet away from me. I’m glad I wasn’t on my bike that night.