What's up world. It's Thursday afternoon which means it's time to blog and holy shit I just made the best brew of coffee ever. Ok, hear me out. I got this Hawaiian Macadamia Cocoa Coffee which is a little more of hot chocolate than it is coffee. It's good, but not where I want it to be. So I have that, and some strong beans from Starbucks. Genius over here mixed the two together and boom. It's amazing. So here I am, in my room, drinking that. It's quite chill.
FYI I really don't have any preset direction for this blog post. So we'll see where we end up.
I'm going home this weekend. I have a dentist appointment. So it'll be nice drinking a few beers with father and maybe tossing around a football for a bit. I can't tell you why but I'm rather looking forward to it.
So for those of you who lost count already we are only 76 days away from Africa. I'm starting to get more and more stoked for that. I've decided to try to learn Portuguese for the fuck of it. I was talking to my lab partner and he's doing the same thing. "You know what I kinda wanna do? Just like learn a new language. You down?" With Rosetta Stone it's fairly quick, easy, and painless to learn a new language so hopefully I can get hooked up with a free copy so I can Portuguese it the fuck down in Lisbon for Christmas.
I need to start getting like a list or something of stuff I wanna get done when I'm overseas for two and a half weeks. For one, I wanna spend some time in a coffee shop. See, in high school I wrote a personal essay on coffee shops in American compared to Europe. You can read the paper, I still have it. But basically to sum it up coffee shops are chill-zones in Europe, more for unwinding. In America they're productivity-zones, and are used for getting stuff done. I prefer the European style.
I remember in high school I would take time out of my schedule to just go grab a cup of coffee and relax in the Starbucks lobby. I was alone; no one else did this but me at the time. I wouldn't do homework or anything really. I'd just listen to music and play on my phone and gaze out the window. Surprisingly, now in college not much as changed. I take time to just go to the Office Tower lobby and sit in the comfortable couches and watch time fall off the clock.
You could call it de-stressing, relaxing, procrastinating, etc. but I tend to think of it as a vacation. A lot of times the whole point of a vacation is to do nothing. Wherever you are, (and assuming you're done partying and adventuring) a lot of time is typically spent doing nothing. Whether stretched out on the beach in (oh I don't know) Kokomo sipping something fruity and alcoholic, or kicked back in a coffee shop sipping a warm cappuccino; the mindset is similar.
Switching gears here, my city of the week this week is San Francisco. I really don't know how long I'll keep up with this "Decker's City of the Week" bullshit, because there's only like three or four cities I actually like in America, so most of the cities of the week will likely be in other countries.
I re-downloaded Google Earth last night with Karen. Google Earth is a magical application. On Google Earth, you can take a virtual trip to wherever you want! That's awesome! Karen and I visited the Socal Area and I gave her a virtual tour. We saw Santa Monica, Malibu, Hollywood, Beverly Hills, and all over the Thousand Oaks area.
Google Earth is awesome in two ways...
1) If you've been somewhere, and you loved it, you can always revisit it on Google Earth. It will always be there on Google Earth! You can take a virtual drive down the street view and look at the Panomario pictures of the same stuff on your Facebook photos. You can point stuff out and be like "I remember that!" or "That looks a lot bigger in real life." Good times.
2) If you're about to go somewhere, and you want to check it out a little bit on Google Earth before you get there in real life. For example I'll be in Madrid in 77 days, it'd be a rad idea to look up my hotel and all on Google Earth. It'll give me some ideas on stuff to do when I get there, and it will bide the time while I wait and get my excited for it.
So yeah Google Earth is cool, and has been since it's conception like 10 years ago. In other news, I made a new door dec yesterday. It's up on my door now. It is definitely the coolest most badass door dec that UK ResLife has ever fucking seen. Other RA's are jealous. Residents don't know what to think I mean they're completely dumbfounded by the nature of this door dec.
So once the damn printing center gets it's shit together and buys more lamination I can have it made into a real poster that I can keep forever. I can imagine it being posted in my bedroom along with the poster with Doug's chill quote (that I still have to make). Making posters is so much fun, especially when you can make them look as amazing as me; no douche.
Anyway that's about all I have to blog about today. I really wish I could write more but today I'm experiencing some writers block. However when I typically read my own blog posts for the first time, I'm sitting in the lobby of the office tower (or somewhere else chilling) and it's several months past the day I wrote this. And I usually am just happy reading my thoughts from several months prior, even if there's no theme or general direction or whatever. In fact one day, probably about 76 days or so, I bet I'll re-read almost all of these on my way over to Eurafricope, because that's typically what I do for special occasions like that. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed reading. Until next time...
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