Rage

So I'm up late tonight - it's 4:40. I've been watching the villanova/Pitt game on CBS. With 45 seconds left there is some sort of error. I refresh the page to find out that my 20 gigs of bandwidth for the month have run out. How unbelievably amazing. I got to miss the buzzer beater finish happen on the yahoo boxscore from my phone. How fun. In a few hours when I get up I'm going to get this thing back on, and possibly choke someone.

Well that's swell

I just got an email from the embassy - this is the main part of it:

"Recently, private U.S. citizens resident in or visiting Kyiv have reported seven violent criminal assaults and robberies directed against foreign nationals by a gang of street criminals. These reported activities have occurred in and around the areas surrounding O’Brien’s Pub and the Hyatt Hotel in Kyiv."


Basically what it says is that the bar I go to all of the time, and the area where I live is where this has possibly been happening. To be honest, I'm sure part of it had to do with St. Patricks day this week where there was an outstanding supply of drunk English speaking foreigners in the area to rob. Anyways, I'm off to go study - pretty much in the area it just described.

Holy Crap I think spring is coming!

I think that the rain/snow/sleet mix today might have been winters swan song. I just looked at the 10 day forecast (as if a 1 day forecast was actually accurate) for Kiev and was blown away. Now only is it supposed to be sunny for the next 10 days, but the temperature is supposed to go from around 30 today, up to 61 on the 2nd of April. This is good news indeed, especially since I can get back to running.

Physics be damned

So I was just walking home (not from the bar - that 'racing' post was from yesterday and for some reason my phone just sent it) and experienced something rather strange. It was snowing, raining, AND sleeting at the same time. I didn't know that was even possible because it would imply there were 3 different temperatures happening at the same time.

Racing

So I decided to go get lunch and break from work (around 3 to give you an idea of my schedule) and went to the local bar cafe. They have some tv on and it's a satelite feed from the uk. They were showing sports then a commercial comes on and it's clear the channel has changed. It's a promo for the racing channel. All sorts of cars and real race car driving - not that NASCAR crap. Formula one and such. Then they to to the programming ...horse racing. Just not what you would expect to see on the racing channel.

You've got to be kidding me

I just spent almost FOUR HOURS on Skype with some mushroom farming lady. From 8:15 to 12:57 - working over her slides. Half of which was me telling her the exact things I wrote to her in her powerpoint a week ago, and the other half was me just trying to understand what in the hell her technology does so I could try to convert it into some type of English. Things like this:

• Economy of energy raw (cost price reduction 1кг mushrooms a minimum on 30 %)

What the hell does that mean? Needless to say what I thought I was going to do tonight didn't happen. It's now 1AM, I'm going to go to bed, and you can bet I'm counting those 4 hours of work onto my soon to be shortened work day tomorrow (or sometime this week).

Note to self

If I ever start working in an R&B dj group with a black guy do not let us name the group black and white. Also don't let us try to rap over almost every song we play. I'm fairly certain I am going to pay the ten dollars to go to the club upstairs before the night is over since R&B night or more like Karaoke night for these two DJs.

Sigh...


UPDATE: So I tried to go upstairs but I couldn't get in. I'm not sure if they didn't have change (not likely), were full (not likely), or it was because I wasn't a girl (bingo!). I went back to the floor I was on and eventually found some people who spoke some English so I stayed for an hour or so more before I left.

I eventually came home and watched the end of the basketball games. I felt quite dirty as I was watching Duke and wishing they would lose because I hate them but hoping they would win for my bracket. They can lose the next round to Villanova now though - which means I can express all sorts of hatred for them in next weekends game.

It's Sunday. I have some work that I thought I was going to do this weekend but it may not happen. I have to spend a bit of time cleaning up my apartment - as it's gotten pretty messy over the last 5 weeks. Also, Sunday is a part of the weekend, and I really don't feel like working today.