Where the Weekend Went

[badmagic]

Friday: I intended to take Bernadette to the movies. The shows I wanted to see started at 7:30, 7:45, and 11:50. It was eight o'clock, and the folks who schedule moves are right bastards. We stayed in and drank wine instead.

Saturday: B & I went on ten-mile hike. It wasn't intentional; we were on the trail for Four-Mile Run, and stopping when

Comments

[katrinb]

"the folks who schedule moves are right bastards."

Tell me about it. I hate the fact that the ones I want to see never seem to match the times allotted for Parents' Night Out at my son's TKD studio.
I'll check with my sister about that Spanish phrase - she's an ESL teacher and spent a lot of time in Central America in the Peace Corps and on study abroad.

[thelongshot]

Except that those times would have worked great for me. It is the start times before 7:30 that get me. (And the fact that it seems every movie needs to be about 3 hours nowadays, which also makes it hard to fit in the time allotted.

[katrinb]

Well, yeah, but we never do seem to get the ones with those time slots. It's Murphy, I tell you.

[vlynn]

I've had to learn how to ask about vegetarian fare in several languages. It's helpful. For the most part it was too hard to explain about pescetarianism. I can barely get that across to most English-speakers

[stori_lundi]

"No carne por favor".

What Bolivian place did you go to? I've been jonesing for good saltenas.

[selki]

Which movie did y'all want to see? I still kind of want to see Les Miserables or the Lincoln movie.