I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!  I decided not to go home this year and am down in Munich with Glen for the holidays.  The first plan was actually to go see his family in their house in Spain for Christmas, but flights were too expensive, so we had a Bavarian Christmas instead!  It was a bit sad without family around for the second year ( Read more... )

Again I must admit to my procrastinating ways and say that yes, it's all my fault that I have to write 5,000 words in 2 days ( Read more... )

But really, if you just eat Ovaltine straight from the package it tastes like the inside of Maltesers.  And if you mix it with milk it's like that only less concentrated... but LIQUID.  I really remember not liking it as a child, though.  I think it was mostly because my mother advertised it as 'the healthy alternative to chocolate milk,' and every ( Read more... )

 I went to the Goetheplatz Theatre a few days ago and saw Salome, an opera by Strauss adapted from the Oscar Wilde play.  Now, maybe some words that come to you mind when you think of the opera are "boring", "posh" and "loud noises"... but did you know that opera can also be art deco?  I will now describe to you what was a very strange opera indeed ( Read more... )

This is a really good LATimes article that I stole from Carrie about Prop 8 ( Read more... )

But at Jacobs, my American friends are realy into the whole Turkey Day thing, going so far as to say that this, not Christmas, is the hardest time to not be with their family.  So there’s gonna be a big to-do about it, involving lots of cooking, which I’m pretty excited about!  We did a run through of the pies last Friday, and I made the pumpkin ( Read more... )

 I just came back from a soccer game (er... football game) against a German team.  The lowest ranked German team in the league we might play in next year.  They were high school kids.   And we kinda lost/drew (the scorer of the random goal in the last minute was technically off-sides but it was a friendly so we let them have it).  We're kinda ( Read more... )

 This is a video my friend Olivia's brother made a while ago about his honda bike.  You should check it out, it's really good.  Also, the more hits he gets, the better!

http://www.vimeo.com/1903368

1   The second time

2   I came alone to say

3   a farewell of sorts, I wanted one more

4   look at her handwriting.

5   I was prepared for solitude, a floating

6   amputated quietness circling my wrists---

7   but not this song, not this

8   Oranges and lemons

9   Sold for a penny

10   All the schoolgirls

11   Are so many ...

12   They rush in breathless

13 ( Read more... )

 On a very positive note, I wish my dear friend Meagan all the wonders that a birthday can bring, and that she may get a lot of good sex and chocolate, perhaps at the same time.  I wish I could come to the birthday extravaganza, and maybe even supply the good sex, or chocolate, but alas, I am once again in the wrong country.  Take lots of pictures ( Read more... )