Daily Archives: September 29, 2007

OK, I somehow broke my e-mail. This really sucks, as I know I had friends visiting me this weekend, and I cannot get in touch with them. I of course have no phone or anything. I’ve had several people IM me saying why haven’t I replied to stuff, so just chill if I owe you … Continue reading

I have a job now. Yesterday Nico was in a hurry to get out to his new job, for which he had to take the train out to the end of the line somewhere, and he mentioned to me that there was an opening at a cell phone store where he works on and off. … Continue reading

This country—or maybe it’s this city—is absolutely unreal in its love of heavy metal. I’d heard many times from people in the know that going to Bavaria and hoping to find lots of heavy metal was not a good plan. It’d be like shopping around for Symphonic Black Metal in the swamps of New Orleans … Continue reading

Yesterday I had to march down to the Kreisverwaltungsreferat to procure my visa. (The Kreisverwaltungsreferat is some municipal building whose name I won’t translate because it would have to be broken up into several words in English, and that’s no fun. While we’re at it, the German word for “visa” is Aufenthaltsgenehmigung.) It was of … Continue reading