They served ice cream sandwiches at lunch today.  They were mostly melted.  I have a mini-fridge in my office, though, so I enjoyed a fully frozen ice cream sandwich after work.  Little things.

...did I mention work ended at 10-ish?  It's easy to work late when you've got nothing else to do.  These bastards are totally ripping me off for the amount of work I'm doing.  The free room and board is nice, except that I still have to pay rent in SF.  Oh well, at least this'll look really good on my resume.

Katy and I rolled into Goleta around 10 pm last night and wanted to go out for a quick drink to celebrate successfully escaping the city for a weekend.  We asked the woman at the front desk of our Super 8 if there were any bars in the area and she just had no idea.  Since we're not exactly in a city, we decided that wandering around the streets would probably be a waste of time, so we retired to our room.  Just as a last-ditch effort, I thought I'd check for "bars loc: goleta, ca" on Google Maps.  Sure enough, little red flags popped up here and there around out hotel on the map.  Not being satisfied with just knowing their names, I popped over to Yelp to read some reviews.  I mean, I'm on vacation; I don't have time to waste on going to lame townie bars.  We found one that we thought looked good and headed over for a drink or two.  Sure enough, it was a great bar and we enjoyed quite a few interesting brews before stumbling home.

It's just amazing to think that if we had listened to the desk clerk, we would have sulked off to bed early.  +1 point internet.

...at least in a manner of thinking.  I took the morning to go visit a homestay I've never actually worked with, but we've had on file for years.  They sent out an email at the beginning of the year letting us know what their availability is like for the year.  Since I've never used them before, I thought a visit was due.  We're actually supposed to visit all of our hosts once a year.  I plotted out the route on Google Maps yesterday at work, printed up directions, and then after having a glorious lie-in this morning, walked up to the 48 bus and headed across town to Noe Valley.  As we were nearing Diamond Heights, I noticed that there was a monthly pass sitting on a seat not too far from me.  The only other passengers were at the front of the bus, so it couldn't have been any of theirs.  I thought briefly about turning it in, but I know that the Muni never replaces lost passes.  I'm sure lost passes is a significant part of their income.

I lost my camera on the way home from Massachusetts over the holidays.  I'm not sure if I put it down and forgot it, or if someone snagged it when I wasn't paying attention, but it's gone.  I tried calling the lost and found a few times, but you can never talk to a real person, and I'm not 100% convinced real people actually work there.  Maybe I'm cynical, but I have a feeling they airport workers just pick and choose from the lost and found.  I found it interesting that glasses are on their list of things they don't even try to return.  My glasses cost a few hundred, and I know that's the cheap end.  Maybe they're just too hard to describe?

I guess I've benefited from lost and founds before too, though.  I "borrowed" a pretty sweet electronic dictionary that was sitting in out lost and found for six or more months.  I would absolutely give it back if anyone came looking for it, but that's not entirely likely considering how long it had been sitting there and how long our average student stays at the school.

I'm just glad I didn't have any really important pictures on that camera.  Still... not happy about it.