Instead of telling long narratives about the week that was, here are some things that I experienced this week.
I was in the Korean part of the city yesterday and saw a tailor's shop that had the following sign outside "extra short men's suits". I know where I'm going if I need a suit.
There was some crazy guy wandering the streets today. He asked some old lady could he have a hug, then he asked us why we didn't have $30m dollars. Only in America.
A guy got shot and killed only five blocks from our house last week. You can see bullet holes in the wall of a hotel nearby.
Ian McNulty used the funniest phrase ever in an email to me: "as busy as a Corinthian's letter box".
I read a nice quote that brought a few tears to my Irish eyes: "I returned to Ireland. Ireland green and chaste and foolish. And when I wandered over my own hills and talked again to my own people I looked into the heart of this life and saw that it was good". Patrick Kavanagh, The Green Fool. I have no desire to jump ship here yet but just thought that this was great writing.
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