What is Up

I am still around, but with a lot less lingering around the hostel than normal. I tend to come home from work without anything to do here except cook dinner and read, and then it's 9:00 and I'm like, weeelll, looks like time to hit the hay and I end up sleeping for eleven hours. This is too much sleep for normal people. I wake up kind of groggy and all I want to do is keep sleeping. I get crazy dreams, though, and I don't really want to give those up.

I accidentally forgot to take my cell phone with me and when I got back - six missed calls. What! Why don't I get that many calls on normal days? Amazing!

I've become very bold recently with cooking choices. Lately, I've had bread dipped in olive oil and various other Italian spices, spaghetti alfredo, a cooked sausage dog with Grey Poupon mustard that someone left behind (the sausages were also left behind), bruschetta with chopped tomatoes, um, yogurt....

We just had this guy call the hostel with the wildest expectations imaginable. First, he wanted a three-bed room, which would have to be a bunk bed and regular bed and which no hostel has ever offered. Then, he asked if we had a television in each room. Believe it or not, we don't. He didn't believe me. He then asked if we provided lunch and dinner. What kind of fairy tale land does he live in? Are there any hostels in the world that provide lunch and dinner? Do hotels provide lunch and dinner? Weird.

Oh! Travis had media passes to see Vantage Point last night and I don't want to ramble on forever except to say 'don't go'. It would have been a clever, almost ingenious satire on the classic action genre, but it wasn't because I believe they were totally serious. The audience was laughing at the ridiculous car chases and maddening time-travel backwards to the same point six different times. One plot twist could have been really, really interesting had they not given it away in the commercial. I was kind of irritated throughout the whole film and we didn't even pay.