I am, of course, very happy that Barack Obama won a second term last night. There was an exceptional amount of screaming and cheering coming from our apartment, considering there were only the two of us at home ( Read more... )

When I say that middle school was the worst time of my life, I'm not trying to be dramatic. I try not to think about it, but everything fell apart the end of sixth grade. Whether that falling apart was my fault or someone else's isn't the point. The point is that I got hate notes and emails. No one talked to me. I went through an entire year or ( Read more... )

Today was a rather lousy day.

So I'm not going to write about it. But one of the tiny good moments was a Skype chat from a certain friend of mine. So I figured I'd introduce you to Ernestus.


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Finally got around to seeing The Beast Below - thank you, BBC, for making it incredibly difficult to find for US viewers.

( I walked away from last week's The Eleventh Hour feeling... )

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I have been here over four months. And the one occasion I have gotten homesick was not in August, September, November, or early December. No. It was in late December. It was the past couple days, to be exact. When everyone else in the program was going home, having their lasts... and I still had nine days to go. Okay, so maybe Salzburg was cool ( ( Read more... )

Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind.
Calvin Coolidge
I've been having lots of lasts lately. Last teaching, last classes, last exams, last time in the IES Center... so it almost seems like I should be at an end. But I'm not. Because this isn't the last time I will walk down Kartnerstrasse, isn't last opera I will see, isn't the ( Read more... )

Kann ich jetzt spreche die Sprache? Ich wisse nicht ( Read more... )

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
John SteinbeckI think I was a junior in highschool the first time I thought about teaching. “You could be Ms. Koroski, the english teacher,” Beth suggested. “The kids would fear you.” It was intended as a joke, but it hovered there, a joking idea, but an idea ( Read more... )

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
William Ralph IngeIt's the end of the semester, so of course things have been going at an insane pace. Which would be completely normal if I was at school, but somehow it seems sacreligious here in Vienna. But I just finished two out ( Read more... )