How's things? I've got a new job, as São Paulo Ambassador for Travelling Spoon, a sort of Airbnb for food - Gaby and I are going to check out our first potential host tomorrow, have a free lunch and decide whether to include her on the site, so I'll let you know how that goes! There's some nice-sounding "packages" on the site already and it's only been going here a month, so hopefully in time I can reestablish my free food racket after all...
Otherwise we've been going birthday crazy, heading to Condimento for some fancy grub on Friday night to celebrate Adny's birthday and then hitting the road to Claudio's house outside Campinas for a BBQ on Sunday. And on Saturday night we went to one of Gaby's coursemate's house to celebrate her hitting some kind of masters milestone (I didn't ask which, as it's a particularly fraught time for everyone there at the moment), and have a singalong.
And it's another week, another compilation, and another expression, which applies to situations where you finally realize something after prolonged ignorance. Apparently Brazilian payphones used to only accept tokens ("fichas") and often didn't work properly - when the call eventually went through, the token "fell" into the machine, hence the saying (no doubt "the penny drops" has similar origins...)
And on that bombshell, it's bye for now,
Fredibility
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