Of nothing in particular
*How am I supposed to spend my Sunday afternoon procrastinating and watching my season 2 DVDs of "One Tree Hill," my embarassing teen drama obsession, when the power keeps cutting out? Is the universe trying to tell me something? "Erin, you're a loser!" perhaps?
*One of my friends here told me he used to know someone whose name (really) was Ophelia Dick. That's hysterically funny. Unfortunate for her, but hysterically funny for everyone else. Schadenfreude, baby.
*Last week during staff chapel, which is held after two and a half sometimes-excruciating hours of meetings, we had to sing "It's a Small World." Don't ask me what on earth this had to do with anything remotely religious, or with anything remotely normal, for that matter. Was it special, in a genuine short bus kind of way? Absolutely.
*Last night we went to a hotel restaurant in Jakarta that has these great hot stone steaks. You order a steak (or chicken or seafood, if you like) then the waiter ties a big apron on you and brings out a ridiculously hot stone and some raw meat, and you get to cook your own food. Very tasty, slightly dangerous, very fun. One of the waiters overheard Travis saying he liked the big, soft pretzels that were served in lieu of dinner rolls and before we left, we were given a take-away pastry box filled with pretzels, gratis. (That means free.) Nice.
*Our cat is mad at us because it rained today. He wanted to go outside but it was raining so he was resigned to sitting at the back door and yelling at us.
*My friend Karen's roof is damaged. A big wind storm the other night apparently knocked off some ceramic shingles or something and now when it's windy she can't sleep because of the noise, so she's had to spend two nights at another friend's house. When she told our school's stellar General Affairs department (which is now headed by the former stellar Human Resources head, also fondly known by some of us as the Cloven-Hooved One) that the roof needed fixing, this was the response she got: "Um...your house is known to have ghosts." And that was it. No repairmen, nothing. Not even an exorcist to get rid of those pesky ghosts. Boo.
*30 of the best minutes of my week-The Daily Show Global Edition with Jon Stewart. Funny, sarcastic, brilliant, a veritable feast for the eyes...and that's just the host. Hmm, if I were stranded on a desert island and could only take three things with me, could Jon Stewart count as one?
*At this very second, the purply-orange sunset combined with the call to prayer from our area mosque wafting in on the post-rainy day breeze is heart-stoppingly gorgeous.
*In two weeks, we'll be in Nebraska. Well, in two weeks exactly, we'll be sitting in O'Hare Airport freezing and waiting to board ONE MORE PLANE, which will get us to Nebraska. Hooray. :)
*One of my friends here told me he used to know someone whose name (really) was Ophelia Dick. That's hysterically funny. Unfortunate for her, but hysterically funny for everyone else. Schadenfreude, baby.
*Last week during staff chapel, which is held after two and a half sometimes-excruciating hours of meetings, we had to sing "It's a Small World." Don't ask me what on earth this had to do with anything remotely religious, or with anything remotely normal, for that matter. Was it special, in a genuine short bus kind of way? Absolutely.
*Last night we went to a hotel restaurant in Jakarta that has these great hot stone steaks. You order a steak (or chicken or seafood, if you like) then the waiter ties a big apron on you and brings out a ridiculously hot stone and some raw meat, and you get to cook your own food. Very tasty, slightly dangerous, very fun. One of the waiters overheard Travis saying he liked the big, soft pretzels that were served in lieu of dinner rolls and before we left, we were given a take-away pastry box filled with pretzels, gratis. (That means free.) Nice.
*Our cat is mad at us because it rained today. He wanted to go outside but it was raining so he was resigned to sitting at the back door and yelling at us.
*My friend Karen's roof is damaged. A big wind storm the other night apparently knocked off some ceramic shingles or something and now when it's windy she can't sleep because of the noise, so she's had to spend two nights at another friend's house. When she told our school's stellar General Affairs department (which is now headed by the former stellar Human Resources head, also fondly known by some of us as the Cloven-Hooved One) that the roof needed fixing, this was the response she got: "Um...your house is known to have ghosts." And that was it. No repairmen, nothing. Not even an exorcist to get rid of those pesky ghosts. Boo.
*30 of the best minutes of my week-The Daily Show Global Edition with Jon Stewart. Funny, sarcastic, brilliant, a veritable feast for the eyes...and that's just the host. Hmm, if I were stranded on a desert island and could only take three things with me, could Jon Stewart count as one?
*At this very second, the purply-orange sunset combined with the call to prayer from our area mosque wafting in on the post-rainy day breeze is heart-stoppingly gorgeous.
*In two weeks, we'll be in Nebraska. Well, in two weeks exactly, we'll be sitting in O'Hare Airport freezing and waiting to board ONE MORE PLANE, which will get us to Nebraska. Hooray. :)
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