It’s been a good day so far. I was sick yesterday, but am better already. I was up early this morning, and participated in social relations. I came home to write a paper this afternoon, while that was underway, got into a duel of haiku with a loved one. your praises are better than nicotine. … Continue reading
For a while now I’ve been meaning to compile a list of what I view to be the greatest compliments one can give. Only tonight did I get the proper inspiration to write them down. Naturally this list is quite skewed toward compliments that would work best if given to a personality similar to my … Continue reading
Yesterday I went to a Magic: The Gathering tournament with friends. It was decent. A friend and I registered for some 2v2 matches and faired alright. We ended up winning enough cards to build at least one new deck each, and half those cards were from the yet-to-be-released expansion Conflux. My favorite event of the … Continue reading
I returned to Philly late on Friday evening. After a weekend full of insane partying with my closest friends, I made it back to my new domicile and slept in my new room. Today I had to head to campus for classes and meetings with various faculty and administrators. I received a new parcel of … Continue reading
I will be traveling this week and thus incommunicado. I haven’t yet decided where or when or what yet, but I’m going to buy some travel essentials at the store across the street, charge my MP3 player, then go down to the main train station and pick a place. I likely will not post again … Continue reading
I worked this morning, but had the evening off. I’d planned to spend it indoors, taking it easy, sorting pictures from the trip over the weekend. I showered (after sweating profusely on the tour due to the humidity and sadly no refreshing rain), then sat down at my computer to work on the pictures. First … Continue reading
Let’s define our terms We have a little saying around these parts. It started among the Americans, actually, but it’s since spread to the Germans. The saying is, as you can guess, “six Maßes later.” If you don’t know what a Maß is, here’s a little help. The Maß (“measure”) is an old Austro-Bavarian unit … Continue reading
At work tonight (how many entries can I possibly start with that line? I need a new intro!), there wasn’t much going on. I grabbed a pint of Cappuccino-and-Caramel-and-awesome Häagen-Dazs, which is super marked down because nobody buys it, pulled up a couple cases of beer to sit on, and chilled out. Since there weren’t … Continue reading
Heading home from my morning job yesterday, on my way to my evening place of employment, I got controlled by the cops. Again. This has been a very regular occurrence since I got to Germany. It’s legal for the cops to just frisk anyone on the street, for any reason, and I get that treatment … Continue reading