Scrabble

My favorite ever ad was one I think for Polaroid. I thought of it when I read about Polaroid discontinuing their instant picture cameras. The camera pans down a gate to a park reading “San Francisco Park”. You see these two old fogeys playing Scrabble in the park. The board is about half full as one puts down [...]

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I should be writing a lesson for tonight, but instead I won’t. <Phone rings> Hurray!  It was my student and he cancelled tonight’s lesson!  Too late!  That means I get paid without doing any work! Anyway, the weekend was really nice, though I am suffering from it.  So tired.  Friday night was a trip to [...]

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Weekday roundup

A ridiculously easy week this week.  It’s only a 3-day week, because of yet another obscure Catholic holiday on Thursday (corpus christi.  Can someone explain to me what we are celebrating here?).  Plus,  Berlitz doesn’t have much work for me at the moment and my BLC classes are taking it easy to, so I don’t [...]

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Ice skating au naturel

Yesterday, we went ice skating on the Alte Donau!!!  Wow!  I’ve never skated on natural water before, only ever at the wonderful Steinberg rink in Forest Park.  It was so awesome!  I felt like a peasant in a Breugel painting, skating across a Dutch canal. Let me explain what the “Old Danube” is.  Back in [...]

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