These lines are written at 180 km/h. Vive la wonderful invention of notebooks and German highways. I'm currently on my way to my parents, and this time I'm going with a guy driving a company-owned Audi A4. Nice car! You can go at 220 km/h or 140, and you won't notice much of a difference - doesn't seem like this car needs to work at all to be fast ( Read more... )

I have just had a revelation that is getting to me quite a bit. It's been a gradual revelation of this week that received it's finalizing touch today in a conversation with a French colleague: I've entered a world where women are still content to be 2nd class humans. It scares me, because I'm not used to this. In my part of Germany, the " ( Read more... )

I have to add another present to my birthday gift list: Alice sent me a funny sticky note Origami book. :) Thank you, Alice!

For those interested, there's more photos of Matt & me in Germania. They're documenting our last weekends adventures. On Saturday, we went to a place called Ludwigsburg, with a big Baroque residence and a little chateau. In ( Read more... )

Matt got to experience his first German "Volksfest" today: we went to the local Oktoberfest equivalent. It was excellent. We had a great time. There were tons of people. After waiting in line and lots of squeezing and pushing, we managed to get into one of the big beer tents. There, we shared a liter of beer, a plate sized Schnitzel and some ( Read more... )

Matt's been staying here for the past week. In two days he'll go to Saarbrücken and move into his new room there. Originally, I'd been planning to take a week of vacation to spend some time with him. But with my plans to find a new job, that involving taking days off to go to interviews, I have to make sure I have enough vacation time left. I ended ( Read more... )

Last week was my birthday. I got lots of beautiful gifts ( Read more... )

There went my plan to write more little entries more often... I had a busy week though ( Read more... )

My Saturday (= tomorrow) is fully planned out: breakfast in the morning with an old university friend of mine, inline skating course until the afternoon, purchasing of a cardigan, meeting with a couple of girls for drinks in the evening ( Read more... )

Called in sick today. Just didn't feel well. Stayed home and spent a significant part of the day organizing and looking for jobs on the internet. Also, I arranged for two job advice meetings with the employment agency. One's tomorrow morning already, so I prepared for it. I hope something useful comes out of it. The other one is in two weeks ( Read more... )

Tonight I went out with a couple of colleagues after work. We went to a little cute restaurant in the town where I live, had dinner, chatted. It was nice. We talked about books we'd read and learning languages (Polish and Russian in particular, which are not easy to learn as high on grammar) and travelling. It was pleasant that we didn't discuss ( Read more... )