Daily Recap

If anyone ever tells you that Timmy Ho Ho's is better in Canada, don't believe them. The service may be more polished (this is where they invented it, and refined it, after all), but the products are inferior.
The Iti Wedding soup is mediocre, the pastries are made with crazy ovens, and the selection of beverages is FAR more limited.
That is my professional opinion.
I know all this because I spent my first day in the store today. It's nice. You know. Clean. Great service, high volume, FAST. But they just serve plain old coffee. No variety, you know? I need my hazelnut iced coffee SOOOOOOOO bad!
I told them I'm going to brew a batch for them to try and they will want it all the time. There is a guy here, Jason Beadman, who was a DM in New England, and we were discussing the iced coffee today. He was trying to convince all the other Canadians who hadn't had it how WONDERFUL it is. They were skeptical.
He stole a jug of hazelnut flavor. I told him he needs to share.
I'll buy my own eye dropper.
OK, what else?
I talked to my mom and Chers for a good amount of time today. I think that is absolutely mandatory for my sense of compatability with this country. People here are just TOO damn nice. They bend over backwards trying to make me comfortable and all I really want is to be treated like a friend that you joke around and be stupid with. The whole juvenile marriage thing shkeeves me out too. I don't want to hear a 20-year-old coworker starting a comment with "My husband always says..."
It sounds like they are playing house.
And....
I saw the new DMB video for Dreamgirl today!!!
YAY! I am a very jealous girl. Why does Julia Roberts get to be so lucky? She kisses the love of my life, Dave. Oh wait... I HAVE kissed Dave... I AM that lucky. :-D
(That was semi- rubbing it in for anyone that it matters to, and semi- making myself feel all warm-and-fuzzy.)
Um.
I got my company credit card today. No news on a paycheck though.
Or, as they say here, paycheque.
I'm working really hard on NOT picking up the accent. I don't really think there is much of a danger, but I'm really concious of it. Just to be on the safe side.
I do think that because of my super-carefulness, I've developed a very middle-of-the-road, accent-free sort of English pronunciation. I would make an excellent news announcer. You couldn't tell where I am from because of it.
If that was an important trait in a person.
Which it isn't. Unless you happen to be an announcer, and I'm not.
Anyway.
I'm DEFINITELY going to try to get the internet working in my room. Someone told me that the room has never worked and that someone had to switch out of it before I was there, and move to a different room because they needed the internet. If this is the case, I'm going to do something about it, because I hate having to share this computer when I have a (probably) perfectly good computer sitting upstairs.
We'll see.
OK. You know. The usual. Still missing everyone. Still homesick. Still want to go home every minute of everyday. But I'm going back up to my room.
More later, probably.