Our principal business here is to get drunk.

I'm going to try to slip away from work early, if I can.

This consists of piping-hot toasted pita bread with a picture-pretty display of four zesty spreads: hummus, ktipiti (hot pepper, feta cheese and olive oil), taramosalata (carp caviar) and melzanosalata (an eggplant, peppers and vinegar dish also known as melitzanes salata).

My baby is a perfect bundle of nerves, said one mother to another. She is so sensitive, she starts at the slightest sound. She sleeps only a few minutes at a time, and has to be walked or rocked to get her off again. She won't go to strangers, and I am a nervous wreck taking care of her.