The roller coaster has slowed considerably; school has begun and teachers, professors, and--of course--the students who all frequent The Palace everyday now have other demands. Even the tourists have slowed somewhat, although the strong Euro keeps up the flow.

What has happened to me in the last few days was not an unending social schedule; it was the loss of electricity for two days. An utter horror, it was not even the result of a hurricane or terrorist action. It was a lizard. Yes, when the "electrical engineers" uncovered the breaker box (in my presence, mind you), there it was: an electrocuted lizard under the main breaker that fed the entire property. I call it the $700 Lizard now and is not big enough to make a lizard skin pinky ring. Sleeping without electricity is impossible in a Miami summer even with a Xanax AND an Ambien, but we lived and discovered, from the ravishingly handsome Polish protector, Marc, that YouTube has a fun piece of our Hairspray Ball, here.