7/13- Tuesday Eclipse

Work was fine. I've managed to finish the training design doc and all the processes that there's any info on for the workshops. Hence today (when they're in meetings all day) I have very little to do and am therefore blogging.

My camera battery died in rhodes (so sad! i don't have pictures of Lindos or the sunset so I'll just steal angela/marj's). So yesterday from work I ran to Syntagma where there's a giant multi-story technology store. They only had a tiny wall of camera batteries and no kodak ones. I asked the guy where else I could go and he was like well I think there's a camera store behind us to the left. He didn't know the name/any more precise directions. So I wandered in the heat with my laptop for 20 minutes and finally found it. They had the needed battery but it was made by a company other than Kodak- it's the kodak battery but produced by someone else. Hope it works at least till I get back to Dallas. I charged it after getting home and this morning my camera seems happier.

Got home- we (angela/marj/i) were discussing what to cook when future plans came up. Marj wanted to see Eclipse in an open air movie theater near Pagrati tomorrow (ie today). But tonight I have dinner with one of dad's friends. So instead we decided to go then (yesterday). I love it when we just make impromptu decisions like that. We brought our old (it was kind of bad but whatever) 1.5 L white wine bottle (again 4 euros...so much cheaper than actual food) and went to Grill and Pita and got delicious ginormous gyros (wow- ginormous is recognized as a legit word...as is legit...legit). Anyway there we met 2 girls (we could tell they were american from the english obviously haha). They 're here on the College Year in Athens program. They seemed really nice- one is indian and goes to penn. The other goes to Michigan and knows one of Marj's friends at Yale. It's really sad though because they leave on Saturday! They're going out Thursday and invited us along- we were going to do chinese food, changing of the guard, and late night at the Benaki museum (they have thursday late nights till midnight). But we think we might do that next thursday now instead. It's sad because there are American students living in two of the apartments other Yalies are in but not ours (only greek nona's). It would be nice to live in those apartments...make more friends.

Went to see Eclipse. It was funny because we ran into two people from our group on a date there....haha awksssss on so many levels. It's sad though because our group overall isn't very cohesive- I LOVE my suite though so it works out. The entire experience was wonderful- gyros, wine, taylor lautner's abs, stars overhead. Great. Was a very fun, spontaneous evening.