Although I wouldn’t call yesterday particularly busy (did a load of laundry, spent the rest of the day in bed and went out in the evening), today will probably be much of the same. I need to take photos of some of my Balinese things to submit to someone, would like to do another load of laundry (except the laundry room is always full on Sunday), would like to get a mani/pedi, have a dinner date with the Aussie guy tonight and am going to a reggae concert with an Indonesian friend after dinner. Why do I do one load of laundry at a time, you ask? The obvious answer – I’m lazy! Besides, there are only 3 washers and dryers in our building; it’s rare that all 3 of them are available for use at the same time. As for the date with the Aussie guy, he said that he’s free today and tonight. Once I explained that my Sunday plans already include a reggae concert starting at 9:00 p.m., he suggested that I pick a restaurant in my area for an early dinner. So there you have it, we sent messages starting on Friday and we’re meeting on Sunday (today). That’s the quickest meet yet!
In the meantime, my Italian teacher sent me a text yesterday. She apologized for not contacting me sooner. When we’d gone to the party last Saturday, she’d seemed fine at the start of the evening. As the evening wore on, she became quieter. On the BART ride home, she was almost completely quiet, although her two Italian friends were still quite animated. Apparently, she had started coming down with… food poisoning! She’d already told me when we met up that evening that she’d eaten at an Indonesian restaurant the night before, but didn’t feel that well the next morning. She still wants to get together soon for drinks and/or dinner.
Which brings me to this comment on Italian class. I didn’t miss anything this semester by not enrolling. I might not have mentioned it on here, but I’d contacted the director of the Italian school via E-mail right after returning from Paris. Since I’d be missing the last 2 classes of this semester due to my trip to Hawaii, I’d asked if they could pro-rate my tuition, which they’d had no problem doing in the past. By the time the director got back to me (via my OFFICE voice mail, of all things), I thought I’d missed the first class of Italian 3 already, so it didn’t seem worth it to sign up for the semester if I’d be missing 3 out of 8 classes. Come to find out from my last Italian teacher, NO Italian 3 class was offered this semester because there weren’t enough students to sign up! I would like to enroll next semester in Italian 3 if there are enough students. The longer I go without weekly Italian interaction, the more I forget! If they don’t have Italian 3 again, maybe I should repeat the Italian Conversation class. Though there’s no real reason for me to continue taking Italian, I hate not finishing what I started.
Sometimes I wonder if I, along with many others, share way too much on social media. There are those that decide they share too much on Facebook, so shut down their account. Then there are those that can’t deal with other’s posts on Facebooks, so shut down their accounts as well. Yet there are those that open Facebook accounts for their cats and dogs and small children, something I’ll never understand! Finally, there are those that have shut down their accounts, but open them again!
More details of my life are on this blog than on Facebook, yet this blog started out being more for my closer friends, who already know more about me from the get go. My best photos are on Flickr with all rights reserved, as opposed to Facebook or here. My second best photos are posted on Instagram. I’ve never tweeted a single thing, but have followers on Twitter. Isn’t that odd? I don’t do MySpace, Pin Interest (though they sent me an E-mail to sign up for an account), Spotify, etc. Does everyone really need to know what news articles I read, what music I listen to or what videos I watch at the EXACT moment it happens? I think not. Maybe I should become secretive again and revert back to my diary!
You must be absolutely fascinated with my life after today’s post, huh? Hope you’re still awake!