~Tuesday~ Library Man was aboard this morning. He actually wasn’t in his element like he normally is, which is to say he wasn’t reading a newspaper or a trade magazine. Boring. A lady with a head scarf sat to the right of me, and she held her cell phone up in her left hand the … Read more
~Monday~I was up at 5:15 and drove to work for 6 AM. I parked behind my building, where it’s free street parking up until 7AM, and then free, but only for two hours at a time between 7 AM and 5 PM. At NC State, there is a thing called The Free Expression Tunnel, where … Read more
~Sunday~ Two of the visiting South African Fellows, who are really ladies, were going to church this morning with their American hosts. The best Xolani got on that front was listening to Amazing Grace–A Country Salute to Gospel, Vol. 1, playing on my Bose speaker from my iPod. When I got up he had started … Read more
~Saturday~ I was up at 9:00. Had breakfast. Xolani came down around ten. He had some coffee and some cream cheese and jelly on bread. We picked up Duma at 11:00 and the three of us had a most delightful walk around Lake Johnson. Topics discussed included small businesses (how they work here versus in … Read more
~Friday~ I brought Xolani back to Duma’s place for 8AM, where Marv was driving them and the other two folks that are here downtown to meet the people they’ll be working with here over the next three weeks. I drove up to the Avent Ferry Park & Ride, where I caught the #9 Greek Village … Read more
~Thursday~ I rode the #9 Greek Village Wolfline bus in this morning, where the only thing of note, really, was a missed perception on my part. A handsome lad had to run for the bus, and when he got on, he put a large box he was carrying with him in the seat next to … Read more
~Thursday~ I went to catch the Wolfline bus at 8:00 to meet a student in the MS in Technical Communication program at 8:30 at Reverie coffee shop on Hillsborough Street, just down the street from my office. Not two minutes after I arrived at the stop, I remembered that it was Easter Break for the … Read more
~Wednesday~ I rode the #9 Greek Village Wolfline bus in this morning, on which a young, female student studied, what looked like, vocabulary words, using flashcards. Word on the front, definition on the back. I noticed yellow highlighting in some of the definitions when the cards were flipped. I didn’t realize they still made 3×5 … Read more