h8t shrt txts

You know what I've always hated? When people shorten words in text messages. Hate it. I am all for it in spoken language, I enjoy throwing a wtf and an oh-em-gee out there every now and then but I have always hated it in text messages. It's just annoying. Write the whole word for goodness sake, it's not that hard and you look like a five year old when you shorten 'see you later' to 'cu l8r.' However, someone today said 'nfi' for not f-ing invited and I laughed really hard.

So you can imagine my chagrin when I find that people love shortening words to text in any language and it is just, if not more so annoying in French becuase half the time people can't spell right anyways and it's very hard to understand what they are saying. If you spoke french I would tell you about the awesome and longest text message ever from a faux type whos calls I've been ignoring for about a week now.

Anyways, it's cooling off here. It's now winter meaning once the sun goes down and in the early morning it is a downright chilly 75 degrees. Seriously though, that's chilly. I close my windows at night and sleep with a little blanket. In the mornings I leave my windows closed until about 8 or 9 and sometimes when I go outside I wear a jacket. Turns out 80 is a little cool and 85 is the perfect temperature. It's somewhere in between that right now in my house and I am perfectly comfortable, not even sweating a little bit. So the mornings and nights are cool/cold but the days still get hot around lunch time. But yes, 85 is cool. I'm in trouble when I get back to America.

What else, what else? They only make one type of cake here and there are many variations on it. Essentially it is just a fried ball of bread dough, kind of like how we (my family) make scones but bigger and with a ton more oil. So giant fried dough balls, sometimes you can get them with a spice in the middle or a spiced fish thing in the middle. It sounds gross but it's pretty good. This week though, I hit the jackpot, the women at my school who run the snack shack made fried bread dough balls with mashed up bananas. I forgot the name but oh man it's super delicious, a really greasy and bad for you banana bread. And I love banana bread and grease so it is just a match made in heaven.

Last weekend I bought a watermelon and was super excited to eat it and I did and then was super ill the rest of the day. Way too much watermelon.