Change of Mood

Despite my optimism from yesterday with all that is going well while living here, there is still a list of things that are starting to annoy me about living in Taiwan:

1. The damn construction in my building that has not stopped for about 4 months. It's currently at its worst since they are jack hammering on the roof for who knows why. Sarah deals with it every day all day, but I get to "enjoy" this on the weekends (both Saturday and Sunday) and on a day like today where I take all my phone calls from home. Ahhhh, I look forward to leaving apartment living behind me. I miss having one neighbor non-existant, and my other neigbor in bed by 9pm.
2. Lack of Chipotle. I emailed them today to see if there were any options of overnighting a burrito or opening a Chipotle in place of one of the 100,000 Starbucks that nobody uses here.
3. The commercials they take during movies. We have an international HBO and Cinemax, but the Movie Channel is kind of like a TNT where they have commercials (in Chinese of course) and they take them at the WORST time in the movie. For example, I'm watching Miracle and there's a commercial taken about 15 seconds before the US makes the go-ahead goal against the Soviets. This happens often in the middle of scenes that shouldn't be split up like that.
4. The heat - was in the 90s again today, with some humidity. We have a lot of periods of Fall, but I don't like temperatures over 85 as they have been for the past 6 months. Plus the fact that it's so hot but the sun still sets by 5pm. Very weird.....
   
5. Missing the ISU tailgating season. The good ol' days of tailgating and not going to the game because you know you'll lose - that was most of my college years!! Ah, the signs of a true ISU fan!
6. The fact that between 3pm and 7pm, there is nobody online outside of work to talk to. Sarah goes to work at 3, the early birds get online by 7pm Taiwan time.
7. When we realize a day in advance that there's a birthday coming, we can only send a card and realize it takes 7-10 days to get there.

That's it for today....