Today continued my Week of New and Busy Happenings: I filled the rental car with gas before returning it. Well, perhaps I had the car filled with gas would be slightly more accurate.
I pulled into the gas station, which has both full- and self-serve options, and an employee came over right away. "You know that you are in front of the solar, right?" I countered with a confident and friendly, "I am a new immigrant. What's solar?" Turns out "solar" means "diesel" as in "not the sort of fuel you put in a little car." After that, I didn't have the chutzpah to insist on pumping my own gas. Not that it would have saved me any money: I just figured that as long as I'm getting gas in Israel, I may as well learn how to get gas in Israel.
Oh, well. There's always next time. Though since gas costs 7.40 NIS per liter, I don't know how much I want to use the stuff! (I'll save you the googling: that works out to $8.10/gal. Seriously.)
I also experienced today, for the second time in my life, the feeling of a "sense of direction." I knew where I wanted to go, but I wasn't 100% sure where I was. I took a few steps, and suddenly felt pulled in a certain direction. It was weird, but I decided I may as well go with it, and bizarrely enough, I ended up where I wanted to be without any doubling back.
As Husbinator said in a different context, "So this 'sense of direction' sounds like the lamest super-power ever." I wouldn't say it's all that lame but it certainly feels up there in the super-power realm.
Getting back to the title of my post, I've been doing so many different, all-consuming things this week, it feels considerably later than Tuesday. I checked before I posted, though: it really is Tuesday.
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