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Monday, 06 July 2009
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Took the weekend off
Well, it seems I took the weekend off from blogging. That's okay, right? I mean, I did blog for six days in a row! It's been a long, long while since I last did that.
Okay, I need to say it one more time: this city is nuts. Sure, it only takes me one hand to count how many homeless people I have to step over on my way to work everyday, but I don't remember Boston being like this. There was a guy on the bus the other day who hocked not one but two loogies right there on the bus. Right next to me in fact. I might have even caught a bit of splash on my arm.... Then he leaned over and forced out a pretty loud fart. Luckily, we thought to get up and move right before that. Nasty, nasty, nasty.
While riding on the bus, I often think about bus courtesy, not surprisingly. Let's say I'm sitting next to someone on a four-seat bench. We're left in the middle two seats after the two people on the ends get up to leave. Is it weird to stay in my seat, or is it weirder to move away so that there's an open seat between us? These are the kinds of things I think about on the bus.
I usually stay in my seat unless the person is taking up too much space or is freaking me out, which is shockingly enough not that rare an occurrence. What do you do?
Friday, 03 July 2009
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Angel Island
Katy and I met up with eight of my students today for a trip our to Angel Island. We didn't have nearly enough time on the island, but it was a good visit. Which I will now bring to you in picture format:
On the way to meet the students, we saw my favorite Care Bear.
And here's Anubis! He's visiting to encourage people to see the King Tut exhibit. Oh, hells yes.
Oh, look, the Golden Gate Bridge!
Whoop dee doo...
Tiburon seemed like a nice place to visit later on.
Feeding seagulls off the back of the ferry.Wait, what happened to the island? I didn't really take any pictures on the island... d'oh. Well, next time. We're trying to figure out how to camp on the island even though Saturday campsites have been sold out for months. Take a Friday off? Take a Monday off? I'm already in negative vacation time....
Thursday, 02 July 2009
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I was gonna blog...
...but I'm just so sleepy.
Um... no work tomorrow! Yay! Actually, I have to work a little bit. Katy and I will be taking some students to Angel Island. Hooray, hiking! I promise to take lots of pictures.
In other news, we walked home from downtown today and stopped into a bar we hadn't been to before. We like it! Hooray, bars!
Sorry, kids, it's bed time for this sleepy Zach.
Wednesday, 01 July 2009
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Loud old lady
When we first moved in here, the building super lived upstairs. Igor, the big Russian. He lived with his little Russian wife who would spend many an evening yelling at him. We didn't like this too much, but it wasn't so bad. We certainly weren't going to go complain.
A few days ago the TV upstairs got really loud. This seemed odd as Igor and Lana never really watched TV, at least that we could hear. We put up with it until today when it just got stupidly loud. I went upstairs, rang the bell, and when the old Russian lady opened the door, I explained to her in my nicest teacher English that she needs to turn down her TV. I know she understood because she apologized, and sure enough things got a bit quieter. But not quiet enough.
I dunno, I guess we'll have to go up there again, but at what point do you get the landlord involved? Personally, I don't think I should have to ask even once for her to turn down her TV, but she's older and probably a bit deaf, and she did turn it down for me. But I can still distinguish different voices. Seriously.
When we moved in here we were warned that there are lots of elderly Russians in this building, and that we shouldn't make too much noise. Well, who didn't tell her?
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
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Tough going...
...I'm not sure I have enough to say, or the energy to say it to keep this up!
The brewery tour went well today. This is my third time on the tour, so I know quite a bit about brewing now. Not really. The best part of the tour is the sampling at the end. Well, that used to be better when they had a 1 pm tour. Believe me, I'm not saying drinking at 11 am is a bad thing, but going back to work afterward is tough.
We had a youngin' with us today, so he had to just hang out while the rest of us "sampled". Poor guy. Then again, he knew before going that he wasn't going to be able to drink. Still, it's a bummer to come to the US from a country where you can drink - legally or not - and find that we're all really uptight about alcohol laws. When did the drinking age go up to 21, and why did we think that was a good idea?
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