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Sunday, August 17th, 2003
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9:46a
I stayed up all night reading Helen DeWitt's The Last Samurai. I'm almost finished, but I need to take a break for breakfast. I think I will go to La Rancherita, the Mexican restaurant across Broadway where, thankfully, no one tries to speak English to me.¹
I'm getting my Roadrunner disconnected on Saturday morning. Time Warner owes me $11.60. Yes! I am the objective pronoun in a sentence where the verb is “to owe.” They are mailing a check to my next place of residence. Check cashing places take partial month refund checks from Time Warner, right?
I'm moving next Sunday. As far as I can tell, this means that I don't have to pay the rent today. This is my last week and I paid the last week with the first week. I'll explain this to Cristina sometime later in the day.
1. In case it does happen, I am prepared. I've developed a standard strategy for use when someone tries to speak to me in English and I would greatly prefer to be using my Spanish or Arabic or whatever. "I'm Polish and don't know English very well either," of course.
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