It's rainy in Sofia. And I have to work Friday night 4-8pm and Saturday 10-2pm.  <em>Parent conferences</em>. I eep telling myself it's okay. I had Thursday and Friday off last week for Thanksgiving. Still it's kind of hard to stomach.

Luckily, I don't teach too much on Fridays. But the bad news? I've got plenty of grading to do.

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I kind of think that it all balances out.<em> </em>

<em>Eventually</em>.

Only sometimes I am not so sure. Like when I am staring down an extra eight hours of work in a week. Things like this kind of get a girl down.

So I'll try not to think about it. I'd rather think about Madrid.

That's much nicer.

Much, much nicer.

I mean, look at how great this breakfast was. Hot chocolate. Molten chocolate,<em> really</em>, and churros.

This was a great breakfast. Fried dough and chocolate. And I am not actually even a chocolate person. My whole life I've preferred white cake (vanilla if you will) to chocolate cake. However, this combination is pretty great. Hot, crispy, fried and thick cups of chocolate.

It's the kind of treat that you know you could never replicate at home.  Or at least the kind of treat you probably shouldn't try t replicate at home. It's better left for someone else to make and you to eat. Frankly, it's a good thing too because I'd never want to leave the house if I could whip-up a combination like this one.

And that would really cut down ability and desire to travel to new places and explore new things.

This is nearly enough to make working on Friday night and Saturday alright. Wish me luck.

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