humpday!!!

oh. i forgot to mention that when i got home from school on tuesday evening, P was the only one at home. he was alone. in the dark. drinking whiskey. from the bottle. (ok, not from the bottle, but from a wineglass). the work of an international law-doer must be rough.

wednesday = hump day

what happened on wednesday? (i gotta speed through a bit, since its friday evening and i'm still only blogging about wednesday! jeez louise!)

on my 40 minute walk to school (i almost wrote "work") i found a croissanterie that opens around 8:15 or so. first of all, that's amazing. because nothing opens early here. in fact, i wonder if all the shops i pass are money-laundering fronts since they never seem to be open at any time when a person could plausibly buy something there. very weird. very very odd.

so, croissanterie. i go in and there are 2 be-suitted guys being attended to in front of me. they buy up stuff, croissants & bread & danishes. and one of them pulls out his wallet with a credit card (or debit card). the woman says (in dutch) something about a minimal payment to use a card. so the guy has to buy more stuff. and more stuff. and more stuff. i'm thinking the minimal payment must be 50 euro, or something. anyway, just when i start to think that he might finish up all of the croissants i want, it's my turn!

i order 2 baby plain croissant & 2 baby cheese croissant. and inhale them before i get to the end of the block. yummy in my tummy. i get to class, picking up an edgar latte on the way. breakfast of champions.

i think most of you know about my product addiction. i'm addicted to toiletry products. if it comes in a bottle or a jar and promises to make my cellulite / wrinkles / acne / oily hair / body hair / facial hair / hyper-pigmentation [insert random physical appearance issue here], then i will buy it. i am the proud owner of about 70 different types of shampoo, conditioner, body scrub and facial exfoliant. proudly stripping away any of the natural oils on my skin. hurrazh.

so one of the most difficult things for me to resist is product from foreign. as a result, i ended up buying a body scrub thingy that promises to make me smell like shiny rice. or something. i also bought blue nail-polish (update alert: the nail-polish colour makes me look like my finger nails have gonorrhea so i had to take it off. ah well. live & learn.)

wednesday evening we had a gathering in the city hall with the mayor of the hague. it was fun. everyone from school was there and it was really nice to mix and mingle (though i did my usual thing of latching onto 2 people and being a dead weight parasite). the city hall building is very modern (white & very curvy) with modern art installations inside. very interesting.

anyway, post-boozing, bunches of people were going to the beach to a place called crazy pianos (which is quite a scene, apparently) for more drinks and some food and more drinks. i didn't go because i wanted to see what P, C & A were up to at home.

another amazing thing that happened on humpday was that i got my cell phone to work! i had to buy a new sim card since the first one i bought online was defective. so now i have a phone! thank you vodaphone. if i could i would give you x-es and o-es.

i had two random thoughts on wednesday on my daily promenade. 1) whatever happened to tugs o' war, or tug o' wars or whatever the plural might be? the venerable art of the tug o' war, i fear, is disappearing. maybe it has completely disappeared. it seems like we'd have so many tugs o' war when i was a kid. and now you never hear about them anymore. i hope they make a retro-come back. AND 2) someone (maybe me?) should do research (ph.d. dissertation) on the history of prejudice & discrimination against left-handed peoples. around the world.

i leave you with that.