medio agosto...

i discovered today that the most-watched television program in Catalonia features a young gay plot line and the whole show is in Catalan. 'El Cor de la Ciutat' will shortly become my new obsession.

It also came to my attention that with my miles I can fly to Tokyo round trip for $48 over spring break. Those tickets are normally like $1700, aka id really be getting my money's worth. The only problem is that I'd be a lot more reluctant to travel to Tokyo alone considering I don't know any Japanese, and also since it is so expensive. I would really want to be able to splurge on sick sushi dinners, etc. I'm thinking I'll end up going to Belgium, plus side trips to Luxembourg and Paris.

Kasia and Ben come tomorrow, which is exciting. Hopefully we can do fun things and not blow a ton of money. There is a potential trip to Maine in the works, maybe a whale watch, and certainly plenty of eating.

I am wondering if this is my last week in the department. Demetra is now in daily, so I basically have no reason to be here considering all my "projects" are done. Oh well. I'll continue to show up and log in hours until I hear otherwise. I have no problem with getting paid to do nothing :-)

I have now been 1 week without a normally functioning phone thanks to the incompetence of Verizon. My new fucking battery had best come in today. Last Monday on the walk back to the car from Eastern Standard my phone was knocked out of my hands and subsequently refused to turn on.

15 minutes til I can leave, thank satan. I'm grabbing lunch with Bobo then sitting on my ass until dinner at Tangierno tonight. I'm looking forward to some good Moroccan food!