the little mint that could

so while packing to leave amsterdam, i saw the craziest ad for some mint on tv in which the guy who eats the mint suddenly grows super long/erect nipples and walks down the street with them and all the girls get turned on. he can do so much with his new nipples--use them as a rack for hanging his sunglasses, spin on a turntable, and other crazy things. it was really weird and i could never imagine anything like that getting on tv in the states.

anyway, the night before i departed i made dad get wireless for the day which would be finished at 9am the morning i left. i tried to download the oc and it said it'd take 6 hours, so when i woke up in the morning to find 98% downloaded, but that the wireless had shut off right before it was finished, you could imagine my dismay. oh internet, how you taunt me.

i walked to the tram to get to the train station (central station) and on the way passed through the fredrikspl., a park i'd walked through many atime that weekend, but which had seemed shady and deserted. now, on a monday morning, it was booming with kids, and i was greeted by a ball being kicked right near me when i walked through. i saw this one kid, off to the side, rubbing two sticks together and trying to make a fire. it was very cute.

the train ride was nice, i sat near a cute couple from san francisco and across from a man from houston who'd moved to amsterdam for business and said absurd things like ï wish you could pay people to exercise for you". please be more american. he looked like dr. jucovy (my high school american history teacher, for those who are just joining me)--pasty white skin, similar smile, etc. but talked nothing like the guy. not that i have such respect for that man either.