Hot fun in the summer time!

Saturday night was a booz-fest to say the least! After a loooong week of waking up every morning at 7, and working till 9 at night, I was exhausted beyong belief! After downing a whole lotta vodka, Lee and I took a cab with a friend to a bar where we watched our buddy get a tattoo! Right there in the middle of the bar, he knealed on a chair, sweating and biting his knuckles for an hour as the tattoo artist went to town on his calf! Right before the tattooing began, our friend actually passed out! But in the end it was all good, and he walked away with a gorgeous tattoo of his father's initials in old-school Greek lettering, and it looked amazing! Definitely psyched me up for when I get my own in Thailand in a couple months :o) Unfortunately, not too much later, I found myself running to the washroom and, well, let's just say, the combination of no sleep and oh-so-much alcohol didn't agree with me and I ended up going home a little early! But it was a great night, and I found out this morning that Lee too had a wee bit too much to drink as he suffered from a severe caseof the spinnies! But a few glasses of water cleared it all up and we're both fine today, on our way to see Transformers!! Our friend Daniel is also having a big good-bye dinner tonight as he leaves for Canada tomorrow after 4 years of teaching here, so it should be a memorable evening!

To leave you with an interesting story, on my way home from work last week I was walking back to my house and it was appr. 36 degrees and humid as hell, I was sweating and dying for a cab to come my way, praying for ANYONE to come my way, when all of a sudden a polite Taiwanese gentleman pulls over and offers me a ride! What a nice man, I thought. Actually, I knew it was taking a risk but if you can imagine for a second being that delirious from the heat and actually seeing spots b/c you're just about to faint, then you'd understand my getting in his car! Don't worry mom, it was completely fine and safe! He dropped me off at the end of my street and only reached out to touched my leg as I was already halfway out the door! Funny, yes; a bit sketchy, yes! Be careful what you wish for :o)