i’m in romania

i should b blogging about this… i’ve been here for 9 days so far.

here are some pics: http://flickr.com/photos/bettyx1138/

i’m working here. its going well. well, considering. switching over a disorganized company from a bad task/project tracking system that no one used properly to a good system is what i’m doing. yeah its ok. but at the same time have to keep the developers full stream ahead on existing and changing projects and priorities.

i was going to go to budapest this weekend but when i went to buy an air ticket i learned that the airport was closed for repairs this weekend. so next weekend i’ll go either to budapest or venice.

i should be bored here but i’m not. i’m just so glad to be out of NY for a while. away from the crass commercialism of the USandA.

here. ppl are kind of provincial, like they haven’t travelled as much as me or my peers or most western europeans and they seem to want to. they see the US as a land of opportunity as our ancestors saw it i guess. but now their economy is opening and the opps are coming to them too now.

they don;t have the gratuitous consumer consumption here which is fantastic. the us is really bad about that. its not as bad in western EU either i don;t think.

anyhoo, the programmers at the office are very hard working, polite and reserved. i’m not used to being around such reserved, polite ppl.

and yes everyone there speaks perfect english. most ppl do around town. its not a problem. sometimes in restaurants the waiters don’t speak english but its ok cuz i point and i know the basics. the worst part is that most menus are not in english. but again i know a few basics. and i’m not picky i’ll eat anything (as u kno from my size).

shit yeah i think i’m putting on weight. everything had tons of cheese in it even salads. i need to learn the phrase for “no dressing”… that’d b gr8…. i have ot ask the ppl at the office that.

the red wine here is good, how i like it, sweet and smooth. like cote du rhones.

i need a manicure but i’ll wait til i get back to ny. i only trust the gals i see there.

what else…. i;m in a hotel but its ok. i looked at an apt but it was too far away.

another reason why i hate america

how fucked up is this:

cluj

here i am in cluj RO. i’m here for work. there’s a lot to be done here in terms of PM so i’ll stay til the end of march.

ITS SO NICE TO BE OUT OF NYC and in a nice small laid back european city even tho everyone smokes everywhere.

at the office i can actually see out of a window from my desk (what a luxury) and its a nice view of quaint european tops of buildings and mountains in the distance. sometimes i hear ducks flying overhead quacking. it seems to be unseasonably warm here too.

today i went w/ the main dude here (from the office) to look at an apt since i’ll b here for so long but it was farther away than he thought or that i wanted ot deal w/. if i find an apt closer i’ll take it.

i’ll so more exploring of the city tomorrow. maybe hit up a museum.

mon – fri i have to work. on sat. at 5am i;m going to drive to budapest w/ some ppl and come back sunday.

here are some pics. they;re all here in my flickr account:

   

i miss my cat:

view from the conference room at the office:

view from my office window!:

Dawn French’s Girls Who Do Comedy

EPISODE 1 

i should be a commedienne… i’m funny 2 me. and to some of my friends. but no one else.

anyway, i somehow identify with this:

if i were bing interdviewed i’d say… well i;m the oldest of 2 grrls,,,, i was mean to my little sister a little ok when we were little not now tho…. i really largely ignored her til i went away 2 college and realized hey i have a little sister… after colllege days tho she got back at me and she’s always kept me in line. i’ve always been the irresponsible crazy one and she was more conservative and responsible.., but we have similar tastes in muzik. she CLAIMS i pushed her down the basement stairs when she was a todddler but i wasn;t near her when that happened. i don;t kno how she thnks she can remember that but whateverrrrr. she’s ok.

ok next question…

kris (the sister) and i have always impersonaated my mom. and each otehr.

our mom is the queeen b. and we are the little bees. the bees in training. and b stands for bitch. my mom made this up not us. she said it 1st.

my mom’s kinda funny even tho she doesn;t kno it.

i was deathly shy until kollege. yeah no shit. hard to believe i kno!

i went to this kollege where classes were discussion-based around a big conference-like table and u HAD to talk and engage in discussion else get shitty evaluations thus i was socialized in a way i hadn’t been b4. i mean, b4 that, it was easy to get by by just being pretty and sitting there. the result of 4 (or 5) yrs of that is someone who talks alot, says what they think and has a larger sense of entitlement than she ought.

hey isn;t it gr8 how computers don;t crash as much as they used to?

u know this is how i spend my sat. nite…. i could have gone to a party but i dint. i also could have gone to a brunch tomorrow butnope i like my down time to b real down time.

no i wasn;t a class clown i was voted class couple w/ the b/f i had in HS. in kolllege i was more like the class arty snotty bitch. god i was so fuct up i;m quite normal and boring now.

omg i love sarah silverman she’s sooooo cool.

hmm watching this i;m thinking maybe humor is a manipulative social strategy.

hmmmm.

EPISODE 2

hmm i haven;t felt brilliantly funny until the urban bedtime stories shit. i was in my 30s. when i was gettting older…. b4 that i was serious and hawt. hm…. interesting topic there.

i’ve always had a goofy fun good sense of humor. like a sick dark sense of humor. guys like that. but i don;t show it off for that reason. i’m just like that.

i don;t kno how they can do miss piggy w/ jim hensen dead.

wow sarah silverman dint get her period til she was 17!!! holy shit. i was likw 12 i think. was so long ago. egad a former lif.

oh no they mentioned hot flashes. i heard someone on an npr radio program say she got hot flashes at 43…. that’s umm around the corner.

hahahaa dawn did karaoke w/ a penis! that’s funny.

i wonder who dawn french married. or if she did.

i wonder if margret cho’s had face work. looks like it.

spam on parade

what do u think the deal is w/ this person’s flickr acct:
http://flickr.com/photos/fern_with_my_home_town/

is this the person who creates these spams? or is it a person documenting the weirdness?

i h8 my birthday

With each passing year I feel like my bday means less and less to me and more like a hallmark card holiday that I don;t want to b reminded of. But I do like to honor other ppl’s bdays. hey that would make a good greeting card blurn wouldn’t it. Heh.