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Hump Day

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Well, I made it through Hump Day. So here's a summary of the week so far: Monday We finished up our work at BOCOG, collecting the last of our tickets. We bought lunch for the BOCOG staff--Pizza! My stomach was still churning from the terrible Tea House lunch we had Sunday. I had to make a few quick runs to the restroom, if you know what I mean. And BOCOG didn't spring for the nice toilets you can sit on. They just have a hole in the floor that you squat over. Apparently this is common here (to be fair, it was common in Italy, too.) AND you can't flush your toilet paper down the toilet, you have to put it in a trash can next to the toilet! Wouldn't want to be the guy whose job it is to go pick up that trash! Anyway, we spent a few hours at the office after BOCOG, getting set up, and then went out to dinner at the Steak Factory. I had a decent burger and a couple french fries. I just wasn't in the mood to be adventurous after the previous day's adventure had turne...