One reason I'm not writing as much these days (Other than the fact that the internet, which has been great for a whole month, failed on me for a couple of days) is that time is flying these days. It's Wednesday right now. If I blink, it's Wednesday again and the weather is ten degrees cooler. It just doesn't seem like my entries are that rare. I feel like I wrote my last entry yesterday.
Silistra itself seems to be assisting in this wierd sense of time. Shops go up, shops close. Bars open and shut down and open again twice as fast as they went away. Restaurants are springing up in all corners. Every block has an American-like "touch-and-feel" grocery store now. It's like one of those cheesy movie cuts (See L.A. Story, Devil's Advocate, Serendipity, Futurama Ep. 1, and many, many others) where you see the city change and cars flying by in streaks. The city's a blur. That's a good thing. I don't think I saw as much positive change during any similar period at UCLA. Germanos, an electronics franchise with a new store here, has even picked up a Playstation 2 demo machine, which in my world is like jumping from the copper arrowhead of pirated computer software to the steel sword of retail video games in less than a few months. Behold Progess!
I'm amazed basically, and have little to do but be glad that I'm seeing theis kind of change in my time here. That said, I have to run before it's Thursday and I miss my classes. Or at least before my dinner gets cold. One or the other.
Posted by Rob at November 16, 2005 08:29 PM