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this weekend i stayed with kevin, and we went to the zoo. we saw flamingos, 80 year-old tortoises, lions, a tiger, some giraffes, and other cool animals. it was really fun. then we saw the edukators, which seemed reliant on a sense of irony over its heavy-handed politics that was lost on me. it's the same kind of irony you see in every european movie these days, the irony that doesn't really exist, which i think is intended to be the actual irony, but it just didn't work for me. the truth is that, politically, europe remains a plodding dinosaur. otherwise, the movie was slightly disappointing but still interesting, exciting, rather funny. i got to practice my german, at least. and i got to eat at that fantastic vietnamese restaurant on high street in des moines again. really terrific. i left on friday evening and didn't come back until sunday afternoon, so i did a lot of reading today. it was okay. kevin is coming out to grinnell on friday but flying out to tennessee on saturday morning. boo. it will be the second time he's come to stay with me, though, so i can't complain. i wouldn't dream of complaining about kevin anyway . . . since it's an almost miraculous accident of fate that such a wonderful man thinks so much of me. four months and still better and better every day; it seems like a good sign.