After a day of Parent-Teacher Conferences, I didn't feel like doing much.

Teaching is hard work. Talking to parents about their students is a different kind of hard work. The worst part about the whole day was that there was no coffee to be found on campus--both Onda and the school cafe were closed. Who does this?

After the conferences wrapped up, I had a short meeting at school and then I headed home to change my clothes and sit on my couch.

Couches on a Saturday afternoon are a really wonderful thing.
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A. and I met up a little bit later for an early dinner and to watch some football--just for the record I mean soccer--but I'm trying to train myself to say football. It's a when in Rome kind of thing.

So we went to Boom Burger.<!--more-->

At Boom Burger we ran into another table of ACS teachers who were paying their bill. We chatted for a bit.
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Then we sat down to order. I got the cheeseburger cooked medium/medium well and A. got the Boom burger--a hamburger with cheese and bacon. Two beers and an order of fries later we were happy campers.
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While we were drinking our beers and waiting for our burgers we ended up talked to two guys at the next table over--Americans who work at the embassy. They were really nice guys and it reminded me how small the expat community in Sofia actually is and how I don't do enough to reach out to the community as a whole.
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Anyhow the burgers were great, the service was good and we had a great night out.

Here's <a href="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/2012/06/15/boom-burger-in-sofia/" target="_blank">my actual restaurant review of Boom Burger</a> on the off chance you want to know more about the food than it's good--which it is. Oh yeah, and as a quick reminder: don't forget to order your burger medium to medium well done unless you like a  very pink-red burger.