I have been drinking beer lately but today I missed my 4-6 pm bartime today, so went down the street looking for the Wines of the World store.
Due to my inepitude with the 24-hour clock (AND things in meters and kilos and degrees celsius, which makes noncommunicating in Poland surpass just the simple language barrier) I thought the store was closed. When I returned from the corner grocery, the winey world was open again.
My loss, no doubt. But at the corner grocery (which everyone in this buildng seems to love, and Why? - the one a couple of blocks over on Raymonta is far better), the Italian wine was only 12 zl (about $4, and it fizzed when I poured the first glass, no kidding, so there you go) and I got to discuss the qualities of various wines - red, Italian, semi-sweet - with the clerk in Polish. Memo to self: look up the word for "fizzy."
In grocery stores here wine is kept behind the counter, along with the hard stuff. "Oh, you would like to buy alcohol?" is the question. This, despite the fact that there are pallets and bales of beer everywhere. Beer is therefore not alcohol. QED.
My ankles are oddly swollen. I do not think I have been riding airplanes in my sleep, so what's up with that? I have been walking a lot, though, and my arches ache.
Strange Polish product: Woolite comes in a plastic pouch. The instructions direct you to snip off a corner of the pouch, and then pour the liquid into a container. WHY DON'T THEY CONSIDER SELLING IT IN A CONTAINER IN THE FIRST PLACE???
I have been working on dissertation stuff all day. Good progress, but far to go. I have to write a short essay tomorrow on my family. Did I mention that my piece on Wieslawa Szymborska is gonna be published in some local newspaper? (It's I'm sure the equivalent of when fourth graders write essays and they print them. "Hey, here's what some foreign kids studying Polish are writing about in summer school!" But why not, the CV needs some foreign stuff, right?)
This weekend with no obligations is a wonder. Another whole free day to follow!
Posted by otto0114 at July 29, 2006 01:57 PMHi Sweety!
You should post your article (in Polish) to Geog-All and see the fallout!
I tried the phrase... "The wine is fizzy" in Poltran but it couldn't do fizzy, and strangely, it couldn't figure out wine either?
Nice job poltran!
Love
B
to wino jest gazowane.
Take THAT, Poltran, you lame excuse for an online translator.
Posted by: Sno Cones at July 30, 2006 02:16 PMOh Yeah?
Well Poltran got an 86 out of 90 on the midterm! LOL!
Love,
-B
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