The Dawn of Godiva

Trip Start Sep 07, 2008
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Trip End Dec 09, 2008


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Thursday, November 27, 2008

Godiva is heeeeeeere! I've been hanging on waiting for her arrival, and tonight she reached Athens via Frankfurt from Colorado right on time. The math is a little staggering. I realized tonight that I've known Godiva for thirteen years. She lived two doors down in the dorm my second year of college, and then we lived together in an apartment the fourth year while I was doing my master's degree. I haven't seen her in person in two years.

Archaeologist Taxi Driver dropped Godiva off at my apartment Wednesday evening, and I made some spaghetti for our dinner. The noodles stuck together terribly, so we decided it wasn't spaghetti, it was bird's nest. Godiva had read on the blog about how I keep falling down all the time, so she brought me a present... big socks with rubber grippies on the bottom so I don't slide around on the marble floors of the apartment.

She also came prepared for the lack of heat in my apartment, having packed an electric blanket in her luggage. She brought a voltage converter and an outlet adapter, hooked it all up to the electric blanket, plugged it in... and blew the electricity out of the entire apartment! Boom -- we're in total darkness. We found the fuse box by the light of her cell phone, and I threw all the circuit breakers until we found one that turned on half the lights. We didn't find the breaker for the other half of the lights until Thursday morning. But I think Godiva's going to be sleeping chilly for the rest of her visit, because the electric blanket was also fried in the Great Blackout of 2008.
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