I feel like a rock star
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prosodicYou know, I think I may have a chance at getting a book published.
At IWC this evening, this woman I don't know approached me and introduced herself, and told me that she's been reading my travel blog and enjoying it a lot and she thinks it's hilarious. I was very surprised, flattered, and a little embarrassed. I have trouble accepting compliments gracefully.
But yeah...it felt great.
And then you have unsolicited and inappropriate compliments, which would be the drunk guy in the Frisbee Club bar telling me that I have a nice ass. But I shouldn't care too much, because he apparently said something similar to every woman that walked into the bar this evening. He even took it upon himself to come out of the bar and accost us all when we were waiting in line for our food.
Anyway, it was an interesting night, and a desperately needed respite from all the travel, overwhelming life stuff, etc.
Lance had an equally exciting evening, but not in a good way. He picked up the rental car for our trip to Belgium tomorrow, and was driving it this evening to go get dinner with Kim. And he had an accident. No serious damage done...the passenger side mirror was torn off and is dangling from the car, and he damaged the mirror on the car that he hit. But he talked to the guy who owned that car, and he was cool about it. We were told by the car rental company that our USAA insurance covers rental cars completely, so I suppose we'll have to pay a deductible on it or something, which will probably cost us more than just paying for the rental car company's insurance in the first place.
Our trip to Belgium might not happen now. Too much anxiety over the events of this evening and such, I guess. We'll have to pay for one night's hotel (unless I explain about the car accident, and maybe they'll take pity and not charge us for it). If we don't go, that's actually fine with me. I felt like I got to see enough of Bruges when I was there the first time.
At IWC this evening, this woman I don't know approached me and introduced herself, and told me that she's been reading my travel blog and enjoying it a lot and she thinks it's hilarious. I was very surprised, flattered, and a little embarrassed. I have trouble accepting compliments gracefully.
But yeah...it felt great.
And then you have unsolicited and inappropriate compliments, which would be the drunk guy in the Frisbee Club bar telling me that I have a nice ass. But I shouldn't care too much, because he apparently said something similar to every woman that walked into the bar this evening. He even took it upon himself to come out of the bar and accost us all when we were waiting in line for our food.
Anyway, it was an interesting night, and a desperately needed respite from all the travel, overwhelming life stuff, etc.
Lance had an equally exciting evening, but not in a good way. He picked up the rental car for our trip to Belgium tomorrow, and was driving it this evening to go get dinner with Kim. And he had an accident. No serious damage done...the passenger side mirror was torn off and is dangling from the car, and he damaged the mirror on the car that he hit. But he talked to the guy who owned that car, and he was cool about it. We were told by the car rental company that our USAA insurance covers rental cars completely, so I suppose we'll have to pay a deductible on it or something, which will probably cost us more than just paying for the rental car company's insurance in the first place.
Our trip to Belgium might not happen now. Too much anxiety over the events of this evening and such, I guess. We'll have to pay for one night's hotel (unless I explain about the car accident, and maybe they'll take pity and not charge us for it). If we don't go, that's actually fine with me. I felt like I got to see enough of Bruges when I was there the first time.
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