Apr 19, 2004 16:04
I went to recife for my dad's business trip
I sat on the beach for an hour with my mom
I hung out with doctors, lawyers, diplomats, etc
I had to impress, speak spanish the whole time, look pretty, act nice, be horribly bored and accomodating
then
from recife two days ago
we went on a plane to sao paulo (4 hours)
we drove from sao paulo to rio (5 hours)
had three hours of fun in rio (though I saw corcovado and my parents' old apartment)
we drove from rio back to sao paulo (5 hours)
we flew from sao paulo to dallas (11 hours)
and I flew from dallas to here (5 hours)
and I took the subway back home (1 hour)
to walk my three bags back 10 blocks (7 minutes)
10 blocks of horrible heckling men
to come home and have my car towed by AAA
to leave my car and take the bus a few blocks to avoid hecklers
to only get tired of waiting for the bus to walk the 10 blocks again to only get heckled and followed
to go to lunch and have a nervous breakdown (crying and shaking, folks, crying and shaking)
to come home and call the auto shop to find that my car needs $1500 of work done
(remembering this horrid scraping sound that happened on my drive home before I left to pack)
It was the fan hitting the radiator. The ball bearings got loose from the fan and ZOOM into the radiator.
I have to be at work in a few hours in Emeryville. I guess I'll catch to BART to be there until midnight.
Donno how I'm gonna do the 12-12 tomorrow.
Welcome home Maria!