Another day dawns...

The whole town looked like this yesterday at noon.
But that didn't last too long. There are still flat spots with 4 or 5 inches of white stuff, but it's already all slushy and it's either melted or fallen off all the trees. It was terribly cold at 8 pm last night, with a knife-like wind when I....

Went out with Maria, Hana, Garith, Emma, and Hana's friend Marketa last night. We're all English teachers. Saw Michael Radford's Merchant of Venice. Really engrossing: Jeremy Irons and Al Pacino carry all the dramatic weight, so it's ok that Joseph Fiennes comes off as a simpering fop. The whole "bad Jews" thing is a little difficult to deal with, but they are honest about it and Shylock does deserve his fate. Not sure how I feel about what the story says, or even if I know what it truly says, but it's worth seeing for the visuals and performances alone. And the whole homoerotic thing between Irons and Fiennes is sure to get some people hot and bothered. It's also kinda cool to realize "Ohhhhh! Pound of flesh! and All that gitters is not gold! That's where those come from!"

Things are messy with the flat. Told Ahmed and Jiri (landlord) about me planning to leave. We took Jiri out drinking with the boys on Friday and confirmed a belief of mine. Mainly this, there is absolutely no correlation between a person that you'd want to have a beer with and a person you would choose to have authority over some portion of your life. We did have a nice time drinking. There's an email flame war going on, mostly between Jarek and Jiri. Jarek is trying to play fast and loose with things, slinging insults and trying to sublet plus end the contract early. By fiat mind you, not through actual negotiation. And everyone thought Ahmed was the offensive loose cannon. I haven't seen him since I told him on Saturday.