A Triumph & the Mundane

In honor of my 51st post, I think I'll relay a story in which I will say "triumph!" to start off with because I'm rather pleased. Cathal and I went to Akropolis to eat and see Spiderman 3 - and at one of the pizza places in the mall, I ordered my meal and Cathal ordered his and when he asked for a large beer, the waitress turned to me and said "a large Svyturys Ekstra?" in Lithuanian. I smiled and looked at Cathal, who quickly said 'yeah, Svyturys Ekstra...' and she read off what we ordered to me and I told her it was right and she went off to get our drinks. Then I laughed. He constantly makes fun of my 'accent' when I speak Lithuanian - but in reality I think most of the accent is because I roll my R's and he can't do that. The point of the story is clearly she thought I was the one who spoke Lithuanian and he was the foreigner :) Granted though, he only said "a large beer" and didn't specify which one, so naturally the waitress would ask which one he wanted - but to me!!

The movie was only okay - it was pretty predictable and used way too much computer action sequences...but overall it was fine. Spiderific. Then we went to Memelis and met Evaldas, Dovydas & Regina there - and after a few too many drinks, I sang karaoke - American Pie...in front of the whole bar, with a friend of another friend who was also there. I was pushed up there - thank you boys.

In other news, I got my hair cut again yesterday at a different salon on the suggestion of Renalda, who said maybe I should get a more 'classic' cut...so I went and am pleased with the results. It's nothing drastic, just a cleanup.

In other other news, I have been packing and cleaning over the last 2 weeks since graduation and have been making tons of progress. I could not have done this last minute, as the time has allowed me to go through piles of papers and find homes for things I won't be taking with me. I don't leave tomorrow, which means I can't put everything in suitcases, but some of my clothes are in there already, allowing me to save some time later. I will spending the night in Vilnius before my flight the next day to make sure I don't miss a bus or something and then saying 'iki pasimatymo' to Lietuva...