This weather sucks. Band week in really hot sun sucks too, but at least it feels like band week and isn't so depressing. Will it ever stop raining?!

Dear. lord! I just went on what probably numbers among the best times going running in my life. It started out normally, just going on one final run through the normal favorite woods-meadows path. Then it started to rain, which I was kind of expecting, and kind of excited for, because that means it's cooler, I don't feel so gross and covered ( Read more... )

Well, I'm just sitting here contemplating packing. I have way too much time alloted to myself for packing, but I guess it's better to have too much than too little, and I have things to do tomorrow and saturday. And large chunks of time are used up just like standing or sitting and looking at the piles of clothes and things around my room and ( Read more... )

I had a SUPER productive morning...or at least it seemed like it, even if it was only kind of running errands. But things are wrapping up! Yesterday I turned in my Hausarbeit (10 page paper auf deutsch about the photographer Alfred Stieglitz for my art history class) and got it back today (she said it was really good!), along with the grade and ( Read more... )

That title pretty much sums it up.

Carolyn gave me this german children's book for my birthday, and it is SUCH a cute story! It starts from the front and the back and is 2 parallel stories that meet in the middle, about Rosalie und Trüffel, 2 pigs. This is my favorite part of the text ( Read more... )

Germans are the laziest people EVER! Everything opens and closes at ridiculous times that are inconvenient and make no sense. I got a thingy in my mailbox saying I had a package, so I walked (10-15 minutes) over to the post office booth thing in the supermarkt sort of nearby here to pick it up. It was like 3:30, and I figured I'd be fine, ( Read more... )

germany is CRAZY! I am comPLETELY exhausted right now, similar to the feeling after a long football saturday. I got up ass early for this program thing with the scholarship people, which actually I quite enjoy the activities of, and we went to stuttgart and learned about some of the unions and economic stuff, and then had an excellent free lunch ( Read more... )

I think there's something about me that babies really like, because while sitting in the park reading by myself, babies often toddle over to me and shove things in my face and make weird noises at me. Actually, this only happens when the babies' mothers are probably about the same age as myself and/or very punk with weird hair and clothes and a ( Read more... )

I was just going jogging with my ipod on random as usual, and the song changed, and M Fanfare (which I didn't even know was on there, so it was quite a surprise) comes on; this was SO exciting that I actually let out an audible little scream, my heart started beating faster, I got a spurt of energy, I got goosebumps, they went away, I got another ( Read more... )