I went with my friend L to Strasbourg this weekend where we couchsurfed with two lovely people, one of whom gave us free tickets to a gigantic convention of independent French vintners. It was a huge, totally free wine tasting!

Couchsurfing is definitely not for everyone, but people who like the idea of meeting new people and learning the local ( Read more... )

The worst parts of yesterday's awful meeting:

1) The meeting
2) The "performance" after the meeting, which was supposed to be a 20s throwback piece (1920s America, that is, not 1920s Germany), and involved employees from the hotel where the meeting was being held dressed as flappers--that is, if flappers ever happened to wear neon green-- ( Read more... )

 Ok Happy Valentine's Day, blah blah blah ( Read more... )

Having experience Karneval (aka Straight Pride) in Cologne, I'm well afraid of what they do in Rio!

All I can say is: it was all delightfully inappropriate.

I'm watching "Manos" The Hands of Fate right now. Somehow Torgo is not nearly as weird as some of the dewelopers I work with.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKtxg1D7vZw&feature=RecentlyWatched&page=1&t=t&f=b

 Sorry, but I can't be bothered to translate this:

Heute in der Kaffeecke:

Me: Clamato...naja, das ist Tomatensaft mit einem leichten Muschelngeschmack.

CRD: Was?! Muschelngeschmack?

Me: Mensch! Ich hab doch MuschELN gesagt! Was bist denn du fürn Freak?!?!?!?!

Ich bin natürlich diejenige, die sich verhört hatte.

On Saturday, a guy I didn't know very well but still thought was quite lovely (he had the finesse to call me a beautiful blonde--a BLONDE, not a ginger!) suffered a massive stroke and died. Three hours before it happened, my best friend K (who knew him much better than I did) and I, along with a mutual friend (incidentally also named I) were at the ( Read more... )

I went out to Ann Arbor last night to hang out with some friends I hadn't seen in a couple of years (at least!). I took K with me for the drive and, after a few hours of goofing around with my old buddies (we seemed to not need to do all that much catching up, probably because of a) the wonders of facebook and b) the sheer number of other, more ( Read more... )