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Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

When Kelly and I went out to the Riverfront Saturday, Kelly mentioned that one of the clubs we went to, China White, had been shown on The Real World: Key West when the housemates had evacuated to Fort Lauderdale to avoid Hurricane Wilma last fall. Apparently, they had spent the night before the storm slurping cocktails and having a merry old time while everyone else was home boarding up windows and counting their provisional cans of Beanie Weanies. So when I was flipping through channels last night and saw that episode was on again, I set my DVR to record it so I could see what it was all about.

So tonight, after working late and having to do more work at home (what is that about?), I turned it on for some mindless, wind-down evening entertainment. I haven’t seen that show in ages, but I wasn’t surprised to see the same archetypal characters were still there…the dumb blonde, the hot jock, the even hotter gay guy, etc. In this episode they had to evacuate Key West and head to Fort Lauderdale because Hurricane Wilma was heading for them. It was actually quite cool to see Las Olas on TV and the clubs Kelly and I had been to! If it’s good enough for the kids on Real World, then it’s pretty good indeed. It just continues to amaze me how much I’d underestimated Fort Lauderdale! I never knew much about it so I just assumed it was like any other beach town, albeit bigger than most, but it has turned out to be a pretty incredible city, and I’ve only been here a short while. I’m looking forward to getting out there and finding out all the other cool stuff that I haven’t discovered yet! Which is actually quite a lot I suppose…

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Ma-weekend with ma-Kelly

Monday, June 26th, 2006

After getting used to coming home to a quiet apartment and spending my evenings with only my TV and the odd glass of wine as entertainment, it was a welcome relief to have ma-Kelly come down to spend the weekend with me in Fort Lauderdale. That alone got me through a week of technical training at work that had my brain completely fried and had me wondering why the heck I’d ever been hired in the first place. Here I was thinking I was out of college and done with formal learning, and now I’m being completely re-educated, complete with classroom instruction and eventual examinations. On the plus side, I’m getting paid for it!

Kelly drove down Friday night, bringing with her a slew of trashy British magazines that Mark had sent her from London. We pretty much spent the night flipping through, laughing at and making catty comments about unfortunate C-list celebrities. Not unlike many evenings spent together in Acton! To round out the night of British-ness we watched a movie Mark had also sent over—a dodgy DVD he’d probably bought from a guy in a trench coat on the Tube, called Football Factory. However dodgy it was, it at least was in a multiregional format so it worked in my DVD player. It was actually a pretty good movie! I needed subtitles for part of it, but other than that we had a good time watching it and learning even more about the passions and motivations of Englishmen…namely violence, sex and alcohol. Oh yeah, and football. 😀

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Work in the Bahamas? Don’t twist my arm…

Monday, June 19th, 2006
I promise, this will be my last comment about lizards (maybe)...they are so unbelievably HUGE down here! I was at Home Depot yesterday wandering around the garden section and I saw this little lizard, like the cute green ones that ... [Continue reading this entry]

My possum family legacy, and other stuff

Sunday, June 18th, 2006
I feel like such a man lately. I've watched more sports this week than in the entire last year probably. Every day it's go to work, come home, get something to eat and watch whatever World ... [Continue reading this entry]

Reptilian roommate

Thursday, June 15th, 2006
Oh...my...god. There are freakin' lizards in my apartment!!! I know I was excited about seeing my first wild iguana down here a couple of weeks ago, but tonight I've discovered that I'm really just not a lizard person. I was just ... [Continue reading this entry]

***CENSORED***

Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
Oops! In my last post I gave away a little bit more information than I should have and the censors (okay, dismayed friend) called me out on it. Rather than delete the offending content, I've saved the previous post in its entirety ... [Continue reading this entry]

Czech Republic, how could you do this to me?

Monday, June 12th, 2006
I loved the Czech Republic when I visited last summer. Prague is beautiful, and was near the top of my list of the most beautiful places I'd ever been. The best hostel in the world is there, and the rowdy, ... [Continue reading this entry]

Working girl

Wednesday, June 7th, 2006
No, not that kind of working girl. After four months of being a woman of leisure, I've finally broken the precedent the federal government set before me and am no longer running a budget deficit! That's right, after months of steadily ... [Continue reading this entry]

Starting over…again

Sunday, June 4th, 2006
I just realized the title of this post sounds like a self-help book for divorcees! Awww. The fact remains that I am starting over yet again, with a new place, a new job, and new faces. I ... [Continue reading this entry]