I'm getting used to this place. I'm so used to it that getting lost in downtown Dallas is no longer frustrating and stressful, it's merely a part of my day, multiple times a day. Driving in Texas is survival of the fittest.
I found a nice coffee shop that I like, although it is in Downtown Dallas so a bit of a drive. I went to a Dr. Suess exhibit at the Storyopolis Museum. I went to the mall and saw the Harry Potter movie. I've been grocery shopping and to the post office. I burned a meal and made some good ones. I filled up my gas tank. Sometimes it strikes me as crazy that I'm living life in Dallas. Like, I live here, this is home. That is crazy, I think.
My humorous story for the day. (Only one I'm going to tell) Let me preface what I’m about to say with, I’m not afraid of rats. I go to a pet store, a clerk with a sense of humor who's trying to get me attention thrusts one in my face. Cool, whatever, I’ll freakin pet it. Not afraid of rats. Today I was walking on the sidewalk which ran between two bushes. Apparently animals are stupid, (because this same thing happened with a lizard yesterday) when animals get scared, Instead of staying put or running away as any half-wit would do. They run across your path. The huge rat the size of a large guinea pig, raced from one bush to another almost over my feet! It’s not the rat that freaked me out and made this story more noteworthy, it’s that in 1340s 1/3 – 2/3 of Europe was wiped out by these disease-ridden vermin! They carry the plague!
Well, let's see what tomorrow has in store, shall we?
Showing posts with label Dallas TX. Show all posts
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Friday, July 17, 2009
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Woo! Dallas, TX
Today is my first full day of my 3.5 month stay in Dallas. I've been here a few times for a week or two stay but never so long as this.
Yesterday, we got in at 3. It was 100 degrees. We stopped at the International Service Center (ISC) and then I went to go move into my new home. I walk in with my first load of luggage and pull up my laptop as I go for the second. Ms. Blood didn't know which wi-fi was her's nor did she know her password. I looked on to her desktop, and, although the woman swears that she has wireless internet, she does not. And the modem she has only has one ethernet jack so I can't just plug in. So not only am I hot, sleep-deprived (as we did not spend the night in Johnson), and in a new place where people don't know how to drive, but I have 3/5 mths looming ahead of me where I have no internet.
On the verge of tears from how overwhelming this all feels, I ask for directions to Panera Bread. 10 minutes later (she's old, it takes her longer) I'm on my way. As I go, I pass a Best Buy and do what any person about to cry because she has no way to connect to the internet does, I stop. I buy what I need to be able to plug into her modem, go home, and it doesn't work. I go back (after realizing that I spent more money on all I'd need to plug in than it would have taken to buy a wireless modem) and bought a wireless modem. I went home, it worked, took back the other stuff and found that I went to Best Buy three times in the first four hours that I has arrived in Dallas.
So my first day was stressful and tiring and I wanted to pull into the parking lot of something familiar and cry, but I couldn't find a Bank of America!
Yesterday, we got in at 3. It was 100 degrees. We stopped at the International Service Center (ISC) and then I went to go move into my new home. I walk in with my first load of luggage and pull up my laptop as I go for the second. Ms. Blood didn't know which wi-fi was her's nor did she know her password. I looked on to her desktop, and, although the woman swears that she has wireless internet, she does not. And the modem she has only has one ethernet jack so I can't just plug in. So not only am I hot, sleep-deprived (as we did not spend the night in Johnson), and in a new place where people don't know how to drive, but I have 3/5 mths looming ahead of me where I have no internet.
On the verge of tears from how overwhelming this all feels, I ask for directions to Panera Bread. 10 minutes later (she's old, it takes her longer) I'm on my way. As I go, I pass a Best Buy and do what any person about to cry because she has no way to connect to the internet does, I stop. I buy what I need to be able to plug into her modem, go home, and it doesn't work. I go back (after realizing that I spent more money on all I'd need to plug in than it would have taken to buy a wireless modem) and bought a wireless modem. I went home, it worked, took back the other stuff and found that I went to Best Buy three times in the first four hours that I has arrived in Dallas.
So my first day was stressful and tiring and I wanted to pull into the parking lot of something familiar and cry, but I couldn't find a Bank of America!
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