Things I Learned So Far Today
1. Forcing oneself to wake up at a normal local time when one's body is still fully adjusted to one's home local time creates huge cognitive problems.

2. Signing up for a Spanish immersion course at the last possible second requires one to take an "assessment exam" in both written and oral Spanish at 8:30 in the morning on that same day (when one isn't even speaking English very well), which produces something less than completely accurate results.

3. Because my apartment is in the old city, which is full of narrow, winding streets, there are several neighborhoods that look exactly like my neighborhood, so in the future it would be wise to carry a small map.

4. Little coffee makers do not have an "automatic off" feature.

5. Leaving a little coffee maker on for hours while trying to find one's neighborhood does not cause a fire, but it does create a coffee-flavored crust at the bottom of the pot that smells bad.

Time for a run.