My Other Office

It has been rainy and miserable here (I know I'm not getting any sympathy from the Dallas crowd). Not just because it is bad weather. It also means that taxis are impossible to come by. I went to lunch yesterday afternoon and when I finished eating and was trying to wave down a taxi, in an instant, it started pouring down rain so hard that I could barely see in front of me. The sky was black and there are very few street lamps on this street. Very creepy. I went inside a store for a while but the taxis weren't able to see me from there so I stood outside. In the rain. Without an umbrella. It took about 25 minutes to hail an empty taxi. What could be worse? Oh yeah, I was wearing a white blouse. The taxi driver turned to talk to me and let's just say that he wouldn't be able to describe my face if his life depended on it. But I digress.... It's been kind of a challenging week so I didn't have it in me to deal with being lost again to my Zizhu office so I went to our downtown office, which is basically made up of a couple of offices and a large conference room. It was great --- quiet and the printer is outside my office. AND it is attached to a mall - a 6 story mall. The kids section takes up an entire floor -- clothes, shoes, toys, photography booth, art classes. (Tyra, our favorite kids' clothes store is here). AND there is a large grocery store in the basement of the building. It is not as large as Carrefour but they have everything that I would need, minus the scary meat and fish departments. There is a wine section (I ran out of wine a couple of days ago so I haven't been doing laundry) and an organic section (although it's not the organic foods that I would buy). AND it is only 15 minutes from my apartment! I think this is the happiest I've been this week.