Today, I was walking to a meeting amidst the torrential downpour. It stopped suddenly. I looked around and everyone around me went from having a look of irritation to a huge, awe-struck smile. I was sort of nervous… cause everyone had this smile. I turned around to see the most vivid rainbow I have ever seen in my life. This picture doesn’t it do it justice. It was amazing to see it make people so happy. Literally everyone around me stopped and gazed at it.
I had to endure a three hour meeting today that was painfully dry. To make the experience even more unbearable, I was forced to look at a bedazzled, 80’s acid-washed jean jacket. It doesn’t stop there. The woman wearing it was doing needlepoint during the entire meeting!
It was almost as hellish as my root canal, which included a TV in the ceiling. The program on during my procedure was the O’Reilly Factor on Fox.
We are still selling our house. It has been a slower process than first assumed. However, there has at least been interest. The frustrating part is waiting… and waiting. My biggest annoyance is that people haven’t been taking off their shoes. So I put up a sign telling them to…
School started back up and work has been hectic. So many odd issues arise at the beginning of the year that I was unaware of. It is, however, nice to have an active campus again. It is almost eery in the summer when the campus is empty.
Anthony and I are going on a South American cruise in December (the southern hemisphere’s summer!). We have to get a visa to enter Brazil, where the cruise begins. There is this stupid rule that if a country requires a travel visa for it’s citizen to enter, then they will require visa’s of that country’s citizens (reciprocal visas). So, in addition to the expense of the cruise, we have to pay roughly $160/person for a visa (or $100 to fly to San Francisco and do it in person).
Yesterday, on my bus ride home, I had the most annoying bus driver. I think he confused his time with passengers as a slam poetry contest. Rather than announcing stops, he would rhymn and talk about local restuarants and other businesses. And when I say he talked… he talked. Nonstop. The ENTIRE bus ride. Am I a total curmudgeon? Should I allow him to use the microphone as his stage? Or, should he allow his semi-trapped audience what many of us (at least me and two elderly women sitting accross from me) were seaking - a peaceful ride home? I know I could have got off the bus and waited for the next 48, but they come only 2 times an hour.
In other bus news, today Anthony and I rode the 106 downtown. On our way home, this elderly African-American woman got on and began talking with another passenger. Their conversation started out harmless. It ended with her talking about Black salvation and some mysterious sword that was going to kill the white people (because we didn’t make her or the other passenger’s “pockets fat”). She also claimed to be a profit and that the US government was wire tapping her phone for the last 20 years (accept for the 4 years she spent in Israel, of course). This was a rather amusing conversation. Although, when she noticed I was eavesdropping, I became nervous that the “sword” she mentioned would cut me. While I have said, many a time, that sometimes a betch needs to be cut - I hoped that I was not that betch.
Tonight I had jazz rehearsal on Capitol Hill. Anthony also had to work late. Despite being done at 9PM, we didn’t get home until a little after 10:30PM on the bus. One would think that in such a technologically advanced city, we would have great mass transit. NOT SO. Basically, we have a bus system that is routinely late and inconvenient. In a little over a year, Seattle is supposed to open LINK, our new light rail. I hope it is better than our current system!!
