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2007-01-20 - 10:26 p.m. Just came back from having Thai food with my good for me/bad for me friend, his fiancee, another guy from work, and a couple that I didn't know at all. I must say that I go out a lot more since the gfm/bfm and I have become better friends. It's nice to go out with people outside my regular crowd and meet new people. And I've never had Thai food before - if you can believe that. It was very good and the restaurant was nice because it was quiet enough that we could all talk and hear each other. I'm very discouraged about Polish. I really threw myself into it the first week and worked on it every day. But everyone else in the class has people to practice with and/or knows it a bit and they've all progressed so much more quickly than me. I have ordered a Teach Yourself Polish book and cd so I'm hoping that will help. It's not that I didn't learn a lot; I just didn't learn enough. Polish is hard. I think if I can learn Polish I'll be able to do anything. Thursday was the staff "holiday" party. We went to a dinner theatre. I've never been to one before and really didn't know what to expect. I was also so depressed that I was having trouble breathing so it was hard to care. The play was strange, but once a person relaxed into the strangeness it was quite entertaining. It was a continuation of Seinfeld. They'd do a little pseudo Seinfeld (Gerry Steinfeld) and then break into old pop songs. Very strange. My boss hated it. It was far to low-brow for her. She turned around after it was over and said, "well, that was terrible". But it was a red-letter day at work yesterday. They called all us underlings into the boardroom and to thank us for all our hard work gave us "holiday" cards that contained - wait for it - $10 gift certificates. $10! As you can imagine my mind immediately ran riot with all the marvelous things I could buy for $10. My gift certificate was to a bookstore. A friend remarked that they'd given me the down payment on a book. And another friend just sighed and said, "now there's a gesture gone awry."
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