Valentine's Day was for me long and exhausting but there was still plenty of buzz. Friends buzzed me, SMSs were flying down the wires, and everywhere ladies were dressed in red. Valentine's Day is big here, almost a national celebration--at least it is a fashionable urban one.
Out for a meal after work at the Royal Swazi Sun, I discovered the restaurants busy and couples everywhere: good to see and to be out in all that intimacy and promise of joy.

(The local SPUR steakhouse restaurant has a Tex-Mex night every Tuesday, and their advertising for it trumpets the phrase, Fire up your tastebuds.)
Hey, I wanna taste your firebuds: ladies' rump is on my menu tonight. All right! Outasight! Turn the lights down low; we're jammin', pumping up the jam, letting all the dogs out. Slow jams, fast jams, Lady Marmalade: always sticky and sweet. Tap your dancing feet sugar-sugar, honey, let's eat that meat.