I've been away from work now for an entire week.  It feels as though someone cut off part of my brain.  Sort of anxious making, like there's something missing and I can't do anything about it.  I may not be able to stay away for the full week next week.....

I have made myself a new livejournal account: 
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We have been very efficient. We now have telephones (Handys), a post office box, a temporary furnished apartment, a bank account, a rental car and a partially stocked pantry. I found out that the computer phone does indeed work the way it's supposed to, when it's plugged into a high speed modem. (The problem is that access to the modem is limited ( Read more... )

 
I forgot the sense of stupidity that runs rampant at this place. You must do things in the right order, needing paper A before you can secure B, etc. At office A, they give you the first piece of paper that allows access to the entire place. Then you try to go to office B, but B is located in a more secure place, requiring another piece of paper. ( Read more... )

Today was so bizarre. K and I have spent the last 3 days in a hotel, since our furniture (which has now become HHG in the shipping vernacular) is all in a container on its way to the Port, a ship, Panama, the Atlantic, the Rhine, and Stuttgart. So we had Haferbrei (aka oatmeal) for breakfast, then took our heavy suitcases up to the Transit Center ( Read more... )

Rhododendrons are faintly sinister after they've been blooming for a while. Something about how the inside of the flowers is dark and shadowed ( Read more... )

Items are getting ticked off our list. The best part is, the internet phone works! Will carry it with me to Germany and hope that it works as well there.

Tomorrow's the yard sale. The weather's been dreadful here for months. It's very cold for June and I wore my winter coat to work today. My fingers are blue.

I met someone who works at my company here who grew up 4 kilometres from where we used to live in Germany and who used to date our landlady's father!

Yesterday in the plane on the way home from the meeting, it dawned on me that in two weeks (from yesterday) I'll be winging my way to Germany for 3 years. I just about had a meltdown at the thought of everything that needs to be done ( Read more... )

More corporate meetings, and I don't have any weird English to report. Either this group is meeting a higher standard or I've succumbed to the corporate-ness of this company. I chose the former ( Read more... )