Submitted by Scott on 2 October 2012 - 4:59am
I'd seen on a website that a small town near Burgas would be having some kind of festival this weekend, featuring something that Google Translate told me meant, “popular struggles.” I knew the first word from Russian, and guessed it actually meant “folk,” and a folk festival sounded like fun. After all, I did skip Czech Days this year. The website said it started on Friday at 11:00 a.m. So I got up, figured out how to get there (hint: it's not from the convenient bus station), and headed out to Sredets.
Submitted by Scott on 30 September 2012 - 6:28pm
Sept. 26
I "checked out" of my apartment at 7:00 this morning, by which I mean I took my stuff and left the key. I'd already paid, so there was nothing left to say, except, perhaps, "What happened to the water?" When I got up this morning, no water was working in the apartment. I'm not sure if it's a building thing or if they really take checkout seriously. I was lucky I still had bottled water from yesterday, but I'm not feeling particularly clean at the moment. I'm sure I'll fit in better this way on the bus, but that's not one of the ways in which I want to blend in.
Submitted by Scott on 25 September 2012 - 2:37pm
I still haven't written about day six, but since I typed on my phone today, I will be posting a little out of order.
Sept. 25
Submitted by Scott on 25 September 2012 - 12:11am
The last two days have been slow, which I keep reminding myself is what vacation is for. And yet, I keep feeling like I'm not achieving enough with my time. How do people who go on vacations and just sit on a beach do it?
Sept. 23
On Sunday, I spent most of the day exploring the city's parks. It was kind of a Zen navigation thing. For those of you unfamiliar with the relevant works by Douglas Adams, here it is in a nutshell:
Submitted by Scott on 24 September 2012 - 4:50am
Sept. 22
(If we're friends on Facebook, you've no doubt already seen the photos from Rila Monastery already, along with the captions that explain a lot of what I know about the monastery's history. If you haven't, go check them out in my Sofia album.)
Submitted by Scott on 21 September 2012 - 1:53pm
It's cold, and I'm tired. Part of my kind of wants to end this post with that. But I won't.
Yesterday and today have been in the mid-fifties—not freezing, but certainly not ideal. When the sun is out, it actually feels great. But the sun has only come out for brief periods these last two days. The good news is, tomorrow will be in the mid-seventies and sunny, and the rest of the week should be in the 80s. In anticipation, I've been singing a little bit of the Annie soundtrack.
Submitted by Scott on 19 September 2012 - 3:02pm
Considering the string of worst-case scenarios running through my mind all day, nothing much happened. (And actually, I should say, "days." Technically two have passed, but it only felt like one very long one to me.)
Submitted by Scott on 13 July 2012 - 1:29pm
Part of my job is training departmental contacts on how to update their own sections of the college website. I work with more than 30 such area content managers, and training can lead to very mixed results. They tend to fall into three taxonomies:
Submitted by Scott on 22 May 2012 - 1:13am
Any event at a Barber abode is likely to involve games ... and quite often games I've never heard of. Ben's birthday bash last weekend was no different, and I still don't know what this one is called.
Submitted by Scott on 11 May 2012 - 1:29pm
Recently, I've been hanging out on photography forums almost obsessively in my free time. Sites like DPReview, NikonRumors and the photography board at MacRumors became much more interesting once I decided it was time to make the jump to a more professional camera body. Perhaps more surprisingly, my interest in these forums hasn't entirely disappeared even now that my pre-purchase research is over and I have my shiny new toy. I've learned quite a bit from the forums, but there are a few pervasive themes that really, really frustrate me.
