free food

Today being my last day before Friday (when all shops are closed), I cruised around with camera in hand. By my favorite bakery, snapped a couple pics with permission - and he pushed baklava on me. No argument. Then rounding the corner to the nut shop that always smells AMAZING, and the guy takes me to the back room to see the roasting in action, plus a big handful of fresh roasted cashews.

Lunch, free, courtesy of my Powershot. Wandering through the market, all these guys wanted their picture taken. Pretty boys are pretty boys everywhere.

Every computer here in the place is busy, and I have a bit of time to work out travel plans - I see the mystery woman is here already, so we'll take off on my afternoon mystery tour soonish. This computer is SOOOOO slow. Sigh.

So, my reservations are changed through Bangkok - getting there October 26th. My San Francisco travel agent will handle the other change, and I may actually be back in the US before Halloween. I'm also scheming a Christmas trip to Ghana, but we'll see how much that costs. Hopefully I'll be gainfully employed as an educator then, and as much as people complain about how little teachers make it's always been enough for me.

Oh my. The boy next to me is looking at really hard-core porn. Icky!

And now he's smoking. Sigh.

I'm looking up job openings - in Fontana district right now (can't see Riverside Unified's) - and there are a number that I'm qualified for. Don't know that they'll still be open in a month and a week, or if there will be new ones, but I can hope. It's no easy job to walk into a classroom that hasn't had a teacher since the beginning of the year, but at least I'll be paid well and can attend UCR classes and move forward with my plans.

Ugh. Stupid server. It all crashed. And it won't let me copy it into a Word document, and I can't post it. What to do? Besides get annoyed that I'm paying for all this time that isn't actually usable because of the slow computers and server? OK I'll try to post. Sigh.