Operation Clean Clothes/Hungry Professor
Trip Start
Sep 07, 2008
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Trip End
Dec 09, 2008
Athens,
Attica,
Greece
Friday, October 3, 2008
Thursday, Jackie O and Mary Lou brought their laundry and a fabulous meal of rice-stuffed peppers, mushroom alfredo over whole-wheat pasta, and garlic bread made from Mary Lou's specialty, a whole head of oven-roasted garlic. It was nice to get to know Jackie O a little better. Please remember the health of her grandfather to the Divine. He's always on her mind.
I hadn't even finished the leftovers from the women's dinner when three of the men - Fred, Class Clown, and Mama D - came over to make French fries and hamburgers ground specially for them by the local butcher and then topped with cheese, onions, green peppers, and bacon on honey buns made fresh from the bakery
Jackie O and Mary Lou's dinner
. I had fun doing my part (staffing the foot pedal on the trash can) and watching the three of them work together in my tiny kitchen. It's hard to believe they didn't know each other four weeks ago.They also brought two cartons of their newfound Elixir of Life, honeydew melon juice. Honeydew juice is sold in Greece right beside the orange juice and the grapefruit juice. The guys are so addicted to the stuff that they've cleaned out the stock from all the stores in the neighborhood.
I learned a new word from Fred, "chesting." This is the word when two men are arguing, and one guy gets in the others' face, puffs himself up, and bumps the other guy's chest with his own chest as a serious gesture of aggression. I've seen the gesture, but I'd never heard the term.
Mama D brought his computer with him to share some of his digital music library with me. I don't know what I was thinking when I failed to download any music onto my laptop or iPod for the trip to Greece. Well, I do know what I was thinking. Downloading takes forever on this rather rattletrap computer the university lent me (I'm very grateful to have it, but it can be a bother), and music was low on my priority list and I ran out of time before I left. I knew I've been missing music, but now as I sit here typing with a little Dragonforce (if Dream Theatre and the PlayStation had a baby, it would be Dragonforce) playing in the background, it really hits me just how much.
