Awkward Kegel Silences: July 2012

(Anita - I drafted this like three weeks ago...only now do I have reliable enough internet/presence of mind to finish and post. More posts coming soon - about all the DIY and thrifting I've been doing on my new apartment in Brooklyn, and on the new restaurant I'm helping to open. OH and my new favorite way of doing my hair - old fashioned pin curls! )

Dobry den Anita
That is how you say "hello" or "good day" in Czech. Actually I have no idea what it literally means, its just what you say whenever you walk into a store or see somebody or have awkward eye contact in the street. This is the only thing I know how to say in Czech after three weeks in Prague, other than "Pivo, prossim" which means "beer, please" which I say a lot. Obviously. Also, almost every bar I've been to here was established before Columbus "discovered" America, or whatever is PC to say Columbus did.

Great things about Prague:
Cheap food, cheap beer
Public transportation system (which is also cheap)
Castles everywhere
cobblestone streets
History everywhere! you can walk on it! People live in it! Famous people are buried all over the place!
Theater tickets are like $5. REAL theater, like at the National Theater. Oh, and they have a National Theater.

Not great things about Prague:
-rude rude waiters. I feel a bit cheated by this, because as a waitress I've been so nice to annoying foreigners for so long, and I was kind of looking forward to cashing in on some karmic credit by having waiters be nice to me even though I'm an annoying foreigner.
-Getting coffee or tea to go here is not a thing. People don't do it. If you stop at a cafe on your way to rehearsal and you desperately need caffeine but you're already late, they will give you your very hot beverage in a little plastic cup, like the kind you serve apple juice to first graders in. Like they never heard of all the horrible chemicals that get released when you heat up thin, cheap plastic. Whatever, lesson learned, no caffeine unless you have an hour to sit in a cafe.
-Clothes are expensive. Crazy over-priced, and not very good quality. Manufacturers think it's still the 90s and people will love bright pink polyester/spandex tank tops (which, I guess, if you follow Urban Outfitters trends, they will?). It means that people here are wearing some things that I recognize from Fashion Bug circa 1998.

actually happens a lot. Which is terrible.

This

The weather is pretty schitzo here, so while it gets sunny and hot from morning til about 5pm, the last few days it's been getting down into the low 50s and raining in the evening. And since we're rehearsing outside, it necessitates this kind of packing:

It's been crazy, but look how fun the show turned out!

Love you miss you all the time

Kate

Dear Kate,

I'm writing to you from Marblehead, MA. I spent the week here and I've made a list of the things I learned:

1. Small New England towns are super patriotic.

(these girls were selling rocks...rocks.)

2. There is a way to wear red, white, & blue, fashionably.

(her headdress reminded me of the midsummer's reference photo you showed me--i loved it on her, too.)

(this is the world's coolest couple. we saw them a few times this week and they have a precious baby girl who was always in a sweet little sundress, and they always looked great. the dad had great sleeves of tattoos, and the mom wore a beautiful white dress (not pictured), and they just seemed like an awesome pair. i think i want to be them when i grow up.)