locked in a restaurant bathroom

I don't know if this has ever happened to anyone, but it was the first time for me. I went to a party of good friends last Saturday in a restaurant. I went to the bathroom and when I closed the door, I noticed that the latch to lock the door was a little strange. I tried to close it but I guess I didn't do a good enough job because someone tried to come in while I was still inside. I quickly yelled to prevent them from opening the door all the way and then I tried to lock the door better. When I was ready to leave, I found that I couldn't budge the lock and I had to yell for help to get someone to open the door. I yelled for a while and finally someone who was in the next cubicle went to get help. It took several people looking for a screwdriver about 15 minutes to get the door open. When the door finally opened there were about 5 men from the restaurant staff standing around looking at my grand exit!! I thanked them and they were quite apologetic that it took so long. When I got back to the party , my friends had wondered where I was for so long so I told them this story.

Winter Olympics

I'm really enjoying the Winter Olympics these days on TV. I haven't seen that much but I love the ice skating pairs and the snowboarding events. Two Chinese pairs got the gold and the silver for the first time the other evening. Yesterday I put on the men's short ice skating program for a while and my friends and I got into a silly discussion about their costumes. Some of them look kind of silly, don't you think? Today I'm not sure if there's more ice skating but I'll be out tonight so I may miss it. I may be able to catch a little when I get home if it's still on. Is anyone else watching the Olympics these days?

Trouble in cyber space

Hi everyone,
I'm writing after quite a long time. I wanted to go on on Saturday but my Internet and home phone have not been working for 3 days...such a nuisance. But they are up and running now and I'm happy to have them back, I can tell you.

I hope you are having a good holiday so far. It's a miserable wet snowy day today and I'm at home, catching up with email. I have a good friend, Kris, who is visiting me for a few days and she should be arriving soon. She is currently teaching EFL (English as a Foreign Language) in Osaka, Japan and is here in the States for a few weeks on vacation. She visited in the summer too so it's been only about 6 months since I've seen her, but I'm excited to see her again. Whoops- believe it or not, I just got a call from her and she's lost...I have to go and get her from the subway. More later....