{"id":1023,"date":"2007-07-19T16:16:20","date_gmt":"2007-07-19T14:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/1023"},"modified":"2007-10-02T16:16:59","modified_gmt":"2007-10-02T14:16:59","slug":"random-pieces-of-life-in-haifa-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/1023","title":{"rendered":"Random pieces of life in Haifa: #3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1.\u00c2\u00a0 I\u00c2\u00a0am eating a sandwich with an olive oil-based mayonnaise.\u00c2\u00a0 It tastes exactly the same as &#8220;regular&#8221; mayonnaise, except it has less fat and is slightly less thick.\u00c2\u00a0 Lovely.<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00c2\u00a0 We watched a blue jellyfish float by at the beach on Friday.\u00c2\u00a0 This also means that going in the water is\u00c2\u00a0a risky endeavor.\u00c2\u00a0 I felt rather brave.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00c2\u00a0 Everything here is a constant hello and goodbye.\u00c2\u00a0 Pilgrims, family visitors, and staff.\u00c2\u00a0 It makes my head spin sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a04.\u00c2\u00a0 We are going to see Harry Potter tonight.\u00c2\u00a0 By &#8220;we&#8221; I mean a group of 25 people or so.\u00c2\u00a0 This has become the &#8220;thing to do&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 One of the guys always organizes an expedition&#8230;and I do mean expedition.\u00c2\u00a0 We have instructions, synchronized times to meet at locations, ticket-buying,\u00c2\u00a0job titles, hiking through snow and over mountains, sacrificing members of the group to wolves howling outside the cave where we huddle for shelter&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So far we have seen <em>Spiderman 3, Pirates of the Caribbean 3, Die Hard<\/em>, and <em>Transformers.<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 Other movies I&#8217;ve seen in the theatre have been <em>Fantastic Four<\/em> and <em>Ocean&#8217;s 13<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes it feels like I haven&#8217;t left the USA at all.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a05.\u00c2\u00a0 It is official: I have begun spelling in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences\">British style <\/a>(the BWC uses British spelling for the most part).\u00c2\u00a0 I knew it would happen eventually, but now I do it in MSN conversations.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve also begun developing a bit of the &#8220;BWC accent&#8221; (which is basically a generic mixture taken from dozens of languages).\u00c2\u00a0 I am amused: this is the 4th accent I will have acquired in my lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>6.\u00c2\u00a0 Summer slows down my pace of reading, mostly because I do not want to be indoors when it is so wonderfully warm outside.\u00c2\u00a0 (Yes, I AM enjoying the heat.\u00c2\u00a0 I know I am crazy.)\u00c2\u00a0 I finally finished all of the Jane Austen books, as well as a few fantasy novels, and am working on a few books simultaneously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1.\u00c2\u00a0 I\u00c2\u00a0am eating a sandwich with an olive oil-based mayonnaise.\u00c2\u00a0 It tastes exactly the same as &#8220;regular&#8221; mayonnaise, except it has less fat and is slightly less thick.\u00c2\u00a0 Lovely. 2.\u00c2\u00a0 We watched a blue jellyfish float by at the beach&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haifa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}