Constantinople

I'm in Istanbul right now. Wouldn't mind if I had a more than 2 hour layover since the city has a ton of history and looked pretty awesome on the way down. I'll have to add it to my list of places to visit someday.

Packed

EDIT: Apparently I copied an incomplete list as I put this up 5 minutes before I left for the airport. It's complete now.

For the next 6-7 weeks, this is what I'm wearing since it's all I've packed.

3 pairs black socks
4 pairs white socks
9 boxer shorts
1 pair running shorts
1 bathing suit
Sandals
Black shoes
Running shoes
5 tshirts
2 undershirts
4 polo shirts
Suit Jacket
2 Dress shirts
2 Ties
2 Pairs of Jeans

What could possibly go wrong?

In a feat of both awesomeness and near stupidity, I managed to iron part of my shirt today ...while wearing it. Sure, it wouldn't have taken much effort to take the shirt off, but there's no thrill in ironing a shirt when nobody can get hurt.

I ran out of water

Yesterday when I went to the grocery store I forgot to pick up a jug of water. I realized it about 10 seconds after I left and didn't feel like going back in. I figured that I would stop by on my way back from walking around the city and doing some work. Not realizing the store closed at 4, I showed up at 4:05.

So yeah, I pretty much had all evening to go get water somewhere, but I didn't want to go back down to the main street. I've been told that you can boil the tap water here and it's okay, but I don't know if you can boil away the unholy amounts of chlorine that are in the water here. I'd rather not find out. So, I had a glass of Jack Daniels with my egg and cheese dinner sandwich last night.

I'll have a banana for breakfast and head down to the store afterward. From there - I don't know. It's Memorial Day ....in America. I think I'm just looking for an excuse to not work. I leave on Friday for quite a trip and probably will need to spend a day preparing for that - packing and laundry and such. Not today though, especially if I take the 'holiday'.

When does dirty start?

I'm wearing the same shirt I wore yesterday. I didn't do anything in it yesterday though. I put it on, walked to the coffee shop to do some work, and eventually came home. Is it dirty? It's not like anybody saw me yesterday that will remember what I was wearing. It's not like I'm wearing the same shirt to the office two days in a row. As far as I'm concerned it's totally okay.

I speak good english

The other day I was on the street and somebody stopped me to ask for directions with their map. He was trying to find a street. Ironically he was on the street he was looking for. After explaining this to him he complimented me on my English skills and asked me where I learned to speak so well. I replied by telling him that I spent a semester abroad in America.

Also, I was just told that a report that I spent the last 4 hours revising was both 'great' and 'excellent' in the same email.

I have a conference call at 6:30 with the CEO/President and the director of one of the programs I am working for. All I know is that it's about a proposal or two I wrote like...3 weeks ago. I'll probably need to go re-read it at some point today.

I've got the block

Writers block that is. After writing a different set of reports/information for the last few days, I'm now burnt out on that subject. I may try going back to the reports I was working on last week. Would be nice to have 3 or 4 of them out of the way before I head to my next trip at the end of the month. We'll see how things work out.