Just stuff

Well what can I tell you?

The monsoon season has started. When I woke up this morning the world was very wet, though I didn't need an umbrella on my walk to work, which makes me hopefull that it won't be all that bad. But if reports are correct, it will be another month or so before we get a day of sunshine. Which might be alright since there are a lot of museums I want to check out, and who could live with themselves if they spent a gorgeous sunny day inside a museum?

I finally tried out my new rollerblades. I'm sad to say they are unusable. The wheels are off-center on the foot...closer to the inside. Which makes it impossible to get your balance and therefore impossible to get up any speed. And it's really painful on the ankles. Very wierd. I'm going to try to return them. Hopefully they won't ask any questions and just give me my money back. But you can imagine my disappointment. And my humiliation having to walk home from the park in my sock feet because I simply could not make them work!!!!

The string of sad animal stories continues as well. My best bud Shaun has a parakeet at home that died this week, and yesterday on our walk to school we saw a days-old kitten abandoned on the street corner. He was so tiny and so young that his eyes weren't even open yet. I could feel my heart breaking as I had to walk away from him. Poor little guy. He wasn't there when we went home for lunch, so we're choosing to believe that his mom came and rescued him. Much better that than many of the other fates that could have befallen him.

This afternoon at school we get the afternoon off to go and watch a speech competition at City Hall. Some of the teachers here are judging it, so the rest of us and all the students are going to watch. I hope I don't fall asleep.