So far, so safe.

I have to make this one short because I am starving and whatever is actually open probably won`t be for much longer.

Things are eerily quiet today. As I write this, Uribe`s inauguration is going on behind closed doors. The entire place is dead and nothing is open. There is military everywhere you go in the city, standing in groups and trying to look useful, when everyone knows this is all just a show. When I went up north to the Usaquen neighborhood for their Sunday market we passed an army tank poised and ready to go on the side of the main road, with artillery hanging out like disembowled intestines. For the past two nights I have been comforting a friend whose mother had a heart attack and whose life is in a precarious position, but to get to him in the south the taxi had to go through some pretty sketchy areas because all the short routes were closed off. Getting back was the same. And it was all surreal because there was an amazing lightning storm happening in the north of the city, so it really did look like the entire city was being bombed.

Eat now.