Kicking back on my balcony, laptop atop my lap, basking in the morning Bavarian sunshine. I meant to sleep in today, but a friend knocked on my door for help activating a SIM card in a newly acquired cell phone. I failed to solve the problem.
No classes today, because it’s a holiday. So I’m going to take it very, very easy. I heard talk yesterday of a “Germany versus America” Fußball/football rematch, the first instance of which took place on Sunday. Don’t worry: we didn’t actually play Germany versus the U.S. in American-style football, as that would have been pretty absurd. Likewise, the Germans gave us a Moroccan player during the soccer match. A fatal mistake.
Speaking of Sundays and holidays in such close conjunction is very natural to me now. Nothing is open here on Sundays. Can’t even go to the grocery store, let alone down to an electronics store or a CD shop. On Sundays, people go to the park and lie out in the sun and drink and laugh in discrete little German packets of pleasure expression. Leisure time is taken very seriously in this country, and it’s something I’m already used to and cherishing. It seems that work time is generally pretty balls-to-the-wall, but come 5 o’clock, it’s quitting time.
So I’m going to chill out here on my balcony in the sun until I burn. I’d take a picture of my luxuriant lifestyle, but my room, and even now my balcony, are so messy I wouldn’t post photos of them. I’d offer to clean it and then make photographs, but, well, today’s a holiday, you see….
HOLIDAYS HOLIDAYS HOLIDAYS HOLIDAYS HOLIDAYS HOLIDAYS.
(in reference to the fat sweaty man in a more recent post.)
so i decided i’m just going to make your blog page MY blog page. i hope you’re not fond of paragraph breaks. i’ll keep it short today:
i found someone to watch metalocalypse with! sunday night, 11:45. we have an exam the next day, and it looks like we won’t be in the library, muahaha. speaking of exams, i survived my first exam as a student of veterinary medicine on wednesday. there was *one* lecture i didn’t have time to go over (beta oxidation of fatty acids) and guess which lecture had an entire page of questions devoted to it? yep. other than that, it went quite well. btw, and this is entirely random, there is a new show (i’m assuming it’s new?) called Squidbillies, adn it’s definitely the same artist as ATHF; these guys are green Meatwads with tentacles. i don’t mind having cable again. so long as i’m paying for it with loans. anyway, there’s a second year who’s been letting me ride her horse, and he’s great. such an easy ride but will do anything you ask. yaaaaay for ridin real hosses again!
PIG ROAST tomorrow night at NBC! free pig and beer! and then studying all weekend for a test this monday and next, cause eff it, i’m taking a road trip to massachusetts with a friend the weekend before our first anatomy exam.
hopefully there’s not a txt limit on these comments. and you know how odd that is for me to ask how much i can write. hope you’re having fun! i’ll try to catch up and get you more details online
p.s. people call me “schaef” and i think they’re calling you, lol.
EM
hahaha, this squidbilllies show is just as wacked as ATHF. there’s a tentacled-Jesus failing miserably at a card trick for an old woman-squid in a walker. and her feet (?) don’t touch the ground. she’s like the creepy bat creature in nightmare before christmas!
Unfortunately, not a new show. I remember one summer night I was home in Hbg, and mom and I were too lazy to turn it off when it came on. Watching it was like doing acid tabs by the fistful, only to find out that the acid tabs were actually just Sweet Tarts, which you hate.
I gotta get some help with nabbing eps of Metalocalypse here. Maybe I’ll ask my brizzle Wizzle. I met these Finns who said they’d never seen it. *fistpump*