Little things that make me happy in Prague

- When the sun is shining and everybody is outside.

- A walk along the river with Camilla and James.

- The fact that I finally found some spicy food here. My mouth is on fire and I love it.

- When someone from whom I'm making a purchase actually puts my change into my hand and smiles, rather than on a plate or on the counter.

- The faces of gypsies.

Pinche wey

It's so weird to get online in the morning at work and see Jorge on MSN, and then talk to him, and then have him say he's going to sleep and he'll talk to me when he gets into work in the morning.

I'm 8 hours apart from Mexico right now, due to all the funny time changes. Now I know how Singapore felt when I'd come online and talk to all of them when they were halfway through the work day and I was just rolling in from the salsa clubs.

Tables turn...

Egyptian TV

I'm really enjoying this Egyptian channel that I get in my hotel. Sometimes I catch an Arabic movie with English subtitles, sometimes music videos, and tonight there's a documentary about Abd al-Halim, an Egyptian singer who I don't know too much about other than that he sang a lot of Nizar Qabbani's poetry.

And Nizar Qabbani is awesome.

I'm back

Dinner was good, but the "latino night" at Popo Cafe Petl (?) was pretty lame. The "cuban band" was a bunch of Czech guys who were playing "cuban music". One guy was a "tap dancer". We paid 50Kc each to get in and then they played one song, and then they took a "break". We couldn't bear to be in there anymore so we walked around Ujezd a bit and then called it a night.

How many more quotation marks could I fit into this "blog entry"?

I'm going to go work on my crossword puzzle. No mixed meanings there, I really am. :)

Work always snaps me out of it

Work started out rough but I gave a training for most of the afternoon, which kinda got me back into the swing of things and I felt pretty good. I took a little catnap and now I'm heading to dinner with Katy and then we're going to check out this live cuban band down at a bar in Ujezd that I can't pronounce. :)

Feeling a little better

After I was feeling yucky I went out. I walked around Tesco and the mall for a while (my favorite activity - at home I walk around Wal-mart and the mall when I'm bored, same thing I guess). When I left my room someone else down the hall was just leaving his room as well, and we were in the elevator together and started talking. He's from Holland and we had a nice, albeit short, conversation. He's here alone as well so maybe I'll run into him again, that would be nice. He's just on vacation, though. I'm afraid I'll only ever meet tourists here and never have any permanent friends.. I guess that's the downside of a city like Prague. In Pittsburgh you never have to worry about the people you meet being tourists. :)

I didn't buy much on my little trip.. I decided to try the Chinese food at the mall which was really not good at all. It was satisfying enough though, because I hadn't eaten yet today. I came back here and watched an episode of Ugly Betty on that illegal website that has all the TV shows and movies, and enjoyed it more than I ever did at home (since everything here is in German or Czech).

I was all psyched to watch Double Shot at Love at 22:00, so I went down to the elevator area (which is a nice open space with big windows and comfy chairs) to read for a while, just because I was tired of being in my room. There was a clock outside the window at the busstop across the street, so I timed it so I'd get back to my room at 9:45 so I could take a shower, then I'd go to bed after that. But, that clock wasn't changed yet, so when I got back here it was just about over.

No big loss, it's one of the only shows in English so I try to catch it, but really I don't need to be timing my night around a show about bi-sexual identical twins trying to find true love.

Anyway...since the channels have all gone German again... I am going to go take a shower and settle into bed to work on a crossword puzzle and hopefully fall asleep, despite the fact that I slept all day.

I'll snap out of this funk tomorrow, I always feel better during the week because work gives me something to do.

Sorry I'm so depressing today. I shouldn't be allowed to write in my blog on weekends.

Sentimientos de hoy

- I really miss Tara. I would give my right arm to be home now, and to go out to lunch and a movie or the mall with her today.

- Last night I went dancing and it was good, but not that good.

- I really love afghani food, and I really love Kabul (the restaurant). I'll be back a million times since I know the owner now.

- I really hate getting in at 6am and waking up at 2pm. I don't know why I do it. It only feels good at 6am...not at 2pm.

- I woke up this morning to the sound of someone opening my door and then closing it. I forgot to put up the do-not-disturb sign so the cleaning lady didn't know if I was in here or not. She left quickly because she saw all the lights on, and if she would have come in the room a little further she'd see me still fully dressed from last night. Classy, Alia. Real classy. :)

- Creo que el cubano a quien me gusta tiene novia. Que pena.. :(


I really don't know what to do with myself.