I was chatting with some people this weekend at a party and, telling this story, remembered that I hadn't posted it anywhere. Side note: Kess can't construct a sentence in English, so this conversation was occuring in German, and is one of the funniest chats I've had this decade. The time I went up to the concession stand at the movie theatre in ( Read more... )

I'm an idiot if I'm not the first to admit that I'm not always on time. It used to be that I always lost track of time, but was still pretty good at making it where ever when I was supposed to, or at least letting people know when I was going to be late. Now, when I am going to be late, it is merely that I either underestimate the time a task ( Read more... )

So I'm tilting at windmills again ... unfortunately that's an English allusion to a Spanish novel, so it makes exactly zero sense in German and I can't come up with anything equivalent to get it across properly. Saturday morning I received texts and e-mails stating and asking, "I would love to come to Amerika," "I want to meet all your friends," " ( Read more... )

So I managed to finally make it home and all of my equipment survived intact. My "bonus" to the trip was that no sooner did I manage to have consistent internet, than my volt converter blew up, drained my laptop's battery, and left me with no way to recharge any of my gear. The major headache was wondering whether or not any of my images managed ( Read more... )

So I kind of "missed" making it to my plane yesterday. Did some quick math and decided she was worth it, so now I'm here for another week ;) Kerstin speaks basically no English, so my German has had to get better every day simply to keep talking with her. I'm miserably bad on the phone, but in person and by text I'm doing pretty well. The word ( Read more... )

Most of this is covered on my site's "Trip Updates," but I felt like doing some random rambling while I wait for things to charge up. Once it all finishes, I'm off to Leipzig's HBH to catch a train to Berlin so I can go to the Fanne Meile for the Final.

The European legs of the trip ended up being from 24 May to 18 June in five countries ("I took ( Read more... )

Since I finished the trip planning (and two rounds of re-planning), I've been buying toys to bring with me. The last of them should show up on Monday and I'm flying back from Ohio that day so may or may not be back from the airport in time for it. ~shrug~ Not that big a deal if I get it Tuesday, as the only thing that matters is that I have them ( Read more... )

So Shar gave me an LJ nudge, which happened to mention it had been 81 weeks since I bothered to update. What the heck, may as well =)
She got to hear part of my trip plans for this summer, responding, "I'm getting tired just reading it." It's worse now. Ultimately my goal is to be in Germany for the World Cup, and then be back in the States in ( Read more... )

Much like Shar's little questionnaire roused too many memories, this question at NG did as well. Rather than make people who don't give a shit suffer through my answer, I figured I'd simply post the rest of my ramblings here. Anyone who thinks I'm worth the air I use should probably take a peek. No intermissions in this one ....
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I finally got tired of the nonsense and wrote up something that's been clattering around in my head for a long time. I've posted it, or links to it a few times in forums now ... and have received a total of ONE acknowledgement that I actually said something in the thread. God forbid anyone actually make or reply to a thread and read any of the ( Read more... )