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Sorry for the subject, but I'm grasping here.  I walked to work today and it was nice.  I woke up about a half hr before I had to be at the office showered, ate my breakfast, and left.  Of course I got there late, because I was dragging a little today, but it is really nice being able to walk to work in 5 minutes.  Too bad there are no condos near the home office.  For lunch I went to investigate what I thought was a French sandwich shop, but it turned out to only be a deli that doesn't make sandwiches.  They had an enormous selection of pate, meats, and desserts.  I did go next door though to a grilled sandwich place and had a nice vegetarian sandwich.  It was funny though because they had these spreads (like a salsa bar), but I couldn't see them since they were in these metal containers (like for ketchup) and had they had names that meant I couldn't figure out what they were.  The sandwich came without any spreads these were the fixings.  The place was in high gear as it was the height of lunch time (1:30) so I couldn't just ask the staff.  Also everyone else was a bit busy as they rushed in to take their spreads.  I stood and watched some people to see what stuff was available and then tried some stuff at random.  The other problem was that I couldn't squirt a little and taste it since the stuff was pretty thick so after a while I would ruin my container (and each person was only given 2 containers).  It was challenging, but I prevailed! 

The managers were a bit worried about me walking around and not getting run over, but man this is only as bad as India.  I think the only thing worse is that the cars go faster (less cars), there are less other obstacles for the cars so they faster (no cows).  However, in my favor they tend to obey traffic signals more. 

A couple of entertaining sights I have seen but forgot to write about.  On the flight over I saw a Chinese lady (probably easily in her 50s) down two Stellas and at least one glass of wine with her food.  I was rather surprised at how she was putting this stuff away considering the flight was only 8 hrs so that means her drinking took place over a 5-6 hr period.  Then tonight I stopped in a really cool bookstore and there was a grandmother sitting in the back sipping on Heineken, smoking a cigarette, and doing a crossword.  This might seem unusual, but keep in mind that there was no bar in the place and it looked like she was just doing a newspaper puzzle.  So I had this image of a woman walking in sitting down, pulling out her Heineken, opening it, lighting up, and opening her paper out to play.  The coolest part about the store was the part next door was a really neat rare old book store.  I peaked in the window and checked out what looked like some cool stuff.

For dinner I made my way to a Crepe/Waffle place, which after looking it up online is a chain.  Damn!  It was really good though and they had an insane dessert menu.  The main reason I walked in was because they had a "Gandhi" crepe on the menu, but upon getting I was informed that they didn't serve it as they don't have tofu.  I didn't have my camera otherwise I would have taken a photo of my food though the presentation was not that spectacular.  However, for dessert I had a tartuffo de avellana (that's a tartuffo, sp?, of hazelnut ice cream) and damn if that wasn't good.  I think tomorrow night I will be investigating a touristy bar area, but apparently one street over is a less touristy area.  We shall see whether that is true or not. 

One observation I had while sitting waiting for my food is that it is definitely less of an experience eating by oneself.  Maybe others can indulge more or maybe it's b/c I'm tired, but I always sit down and want my food fast.  I should probably take a book with me next time, but I keep forgetting.  I saw this girl walk in to eat and it was funny you could tell immediately she wasn't like me (ie eating alone) she sat down and pulled out her phone to figure out where the hell is my friend.  She was sitting directly in front of me facing me so it was rather entertaining watching her.  She didn't look amused and kept craning her neck looking around.  Then she went through the menu and I have never seen a girl open a dessert menu and frown so that was funny.  Eventually her friend showed and I left since I was done. 

I heard one of the previous expats that was down here gained 16 lbs while down here for a month or two.  I hope that doesn't happen to me.  She did mention a restaurant that's at a museum and on the site of an archaeological dig so I hope she finds the name of that one.  I think that's about all for now. 

Buenas noches...