会談, Madison 英会話高校, 観梅

job interview 会談: yo! check this out, i had a job interview at Tiny's! you know I had my card ready to go.

traffic sucks: traffic in portland on friday is ridiculous. why oh why didn't i take the MAX? contrary to my assumptions, i would have been waaaay better off not driving.

madison 英会話高校: so my site visit today was at madison. again, confidentiality reigns supreme but i will say that i'm glad i did two of these, each 英会 ESL classroom is profoundly different. i got to see a low-level and a high-level class, so it was a really good experience.

paper: i managed to finish my paper before the 5pm deadline. i'm still in shock...

果物: god i love 果物 produce at new seasons. i had not realized how amazing that place really is until i went to albertsons...night and day. what do you mean you only have oranges? just one kind (as if navel were the only kind)? and not organic? i'm sooo glad i have options. if i had no choice but to do my shopping at albertsons all the time would just うっとうしくていやですね be depressing. everything really looks like it's been through the industrial revolution...and by the time it's on the shelf it's not all that appetizing. i had no idea i was 甘える so spoiled, but you know, i really am all about having 6 different kinds of potatoes, and 5 different varieties of 蜜柑 tangerines...
while i'm being a food snob, let me just say, salad is the perfect food when you are tired of riding the perpetual wintertime starch train.

観梅: outside the trees are blooming away. the 梅 plums have been at it for a couple of weeks now. when i look outside, a new one has started to join in the palette of pink against the mostly still grey/brown backdrop of the city. then the 梨花 pears started up this week. and i'm seeing forsythia's blooming around too. 桜 cherry's are probably gonna be next. yay, 春 spring!