"Cavorting with the natives."

Amy thinks "I thought that was a trash can but it is actually a bicycle" (a me quote) would be a better title. I think her quote is more appropriate, at least in length.

Sunday I headed off to Amy's apartment, which required two buses and a subway, but was a pleasant trip. Got there and found she was talking to Mary, so I took over and got to talk to her for a while while Amy got ready to go. We went to a place that did seem like it could fix computers, but mine wasn't kind enough to demonstrate its little freezing-and-claiming-hard-drive-failure act for us, and the guy said there wasn't much he could do with an English-language computer anyway. He did mention that, since it works sometimes, it's probably not a hardware problem. Amy thought up the idea to do the thing where you send it into the past (this has a name, I just can never remember it) and got that going while I talked to a fellow intern of hers who had called her wanting to know about IB.

Had a yummy lunch at a Korean place, then went back to the apartment. My computer seemed to be working fine, so we headed to the tailor. My original shirt still didn't fit, so they retook measurements, which apparently they had done a horrible job with before. The skirt they made based on the one I brought in was great, though. Decided for sure on the coat I want (it's pretty classic pea coat...looked a lot of cute ones that I would be able to wear for fewer occasions, but decided this was better) and spent some more time looking around, etc.

Went from there with Amy and her mother to Shanghai Old Street, which has a bunch of little cheap stores on it, and bought some headscarves and some rubber pigs that squish. (They are better seen than described.) From there we went to a really good hot pot dinner, joined by Amy's dad. When we got back to the apartment, my computer still hadn't crashed...I'm keeping my fingers crossed, but I doubt the adventure is totally over. Perused facebook together for a while, which was the kind of relaxing, time-wasting activity that made me miss my friends from home and Swat. (I guess your friends are the people you want to be with when you're just wasting time...)