July 2010
21 posts
at this time tomorrow...
my mom and sister will be here!
i’m so excited.
Yesterday a girl ran her bike into mine
I went over my handle bars and my left arm is twice as big as it should be. Cool!
List of airlines banned in the EU →
I found it hilarious.
I woke up at 6:50 to Jeffrey asking if I would like to fly to London with him later today. By 7:00 airfare had been purchased and we had gotten tickets to Penn + Teller’s show on Saturday night.
The one thing we failed to do before booking was check the hotel situation. Jeff is on it right now at home, as the immediate results we found were a bit terrifying (only $400 a night, guys! And...
Nike, my wallet, and completely irregular sizes.
I have a really nice pair of Nike running shoes that I wear to the gym sometimes. I only wear them sometimes because they don’t properly fit me at all, and make my toes tingle and ultimately go numb. I know, I know, my fault, but I didn’t notice it when I first purchased them so woe is me.
The interesting thing is this: this morning I inspected them to see what size they were before...
Ich habe meine erste deutsche Freundin...
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Perfumes arrived!
Lady Caron is awesome and I’m wearing it right now. Teint de neige is even nicer, but as soon as I gave it to Jeff to smell, he said “I don’t like it” which is a shame. I may get the bath and shower gel, and use that, so that I have a nice powdery base smell that isn’t overpowering.
But, Lady Caron rocks.
Creepin'
Last night I was creepin’ and checking out what was in the apartment across the courtyard from us, and I’m now positive they have a reproduction of Washington Crossing the Delaware on their living room wall.
We're having ribs and shrimp delivered to our...
We were going to go bike riding and then head to dinner, but I had a bicycle mishap that took all the fun out of that plan. So instead, I’ll be chilling at home in the air conditioned living room and stream the WM on my computer while dicking around on the internet.
I’d like to thank bloombury’s for providing a way for us to have good restaurant grade food brought to our home....
We started talking about jiaozi in class and my awesome Chinese classmate, Feihu, mentioned a Chinese restaurant nearby and our entire class has decide we should go eat there after class, before the Germany-Spain game. Yum!
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We also were given an orange tree
I didn’t know those were available for purchase in Berlin! This is an exciting development in the life of our apartment.
Leftovers!
Waiting for me at home right now is no less than two kilos of meatballs, four uncooked wursts, some hamburger meat, and (!!!!) an eggplant.
Unfortunately, all the cheese and käsebrötchen are gone :(
I’m going to make such an awesome lunch.
My bottle of Hypnose is almost empty. It’s been my scent for somewhere in the neighborhood of four years, and I think it will continue to be (I love it too much - and it smells too awesome on me - for me to ever give it up) but I think I want a supplemental scent. Maybe something for special occasions, etc.
This all gives me angst. I hate going perfume shopping and coming out smelling like...
We had a house warming party last night
I know, it’s weird to do such on a Monday night, but most of our friends are DJs and are out of town on the weekend, so Sunday was out of the question (it was 4th of July themed). I made Pimm’s punch and apple pie, and woke up this morning super hungover.
And now to go to school and try not to die.
I feel like such a weirdo going grocery shopping...
As I am, without a doubt, always the only person in the store. But, no lines!
Berlin will be an oven this weekend
Seriously, dudes. Today is supposed to be over 90°F.
I think a boat ride is in order.
June 2010
33 posts
Oh hey, broken optical drive
Apple should really just give me a new laptop at this point, as this one is a total lemon.
But I’m not going to attempt to go into lemon laws in Berlin, where there isn’t even an Apple store proper (we have Gravis, which is an authorized reseller and will do AppleCare repairs, but probably won’t replace the thing for free for me), and I’m not going to travel to Frankfurt...
So I'm looking at my credit report
And I don’t know what to do here.
There’s an account that appears to have been opened in my name when I was 9 years old. A credit card with a $14,000 limit. It was closed in October 2008, and doesn’t seem to be hurting me in anyway, but this was not an account opened by me, nor anyone in my family in my name.
I don’t know what, if anything, I can do here, as the account...
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Little Girls and Inert Parents
We live in a really beautiful, historic building with some really friendly, interesting neighbors. The woman that used to live below us (before we moved into the new apartment) is very sweet. The girl that used to live next door to us (who now lives directly below us) is a bit quacky but still pleasant enough, and the man that now lives next door to us is awesome - although I’ve only met him...
Oh, and
Nair gives me a chemical rash
This is probably an overshare
I’m really fucking hairy. Like, absurdly hairy. I stopped shaving for the better part of three months because I get so many ingrown hairs from hair removal that I end up getting frustrated and the frustration isn’t worth the awesome feeling of being smooth. Add to that, then, that my (dark black) hair roots are super close to the surface of my skin (a skin so pale that I actually am...
With his party having won 6 of the City Council’s... →
The open air cinemas have been running for two...
But it’s just finally becoming warm enough that I’ve looked at the lineup. The screen is five blocks away from here, and they play movies every night all summer long, including some movies I’ve been dying to see - Berlin Calling and Neukölln Unlimited - and some old favorites - like The Big Lebowski. I’m psyched dude.
I have 18 days in October to kill while waiting for school to begin, during which time I have absolutely no plans whatsoever. This, obviously, presents several options - one of which is to fly to Iceland, which I’ve been dying to do. Another is to stay on continent and take a couple side trips - flights to Copenhagen are currently $50, and London is under $40 (via Ryanair and Easyjet, but at...
So after fixing my bicycle lock with a paperclip, and managing to get both the curtain rods and curtains hung, yet another problem has arose. This morning, after nearly throwing up as I took out the garbage before hopping onto my bike, Jeff called down to me in the courtyard and alerted me that I had forgotten my helmet upstairs. He threw it down to where I stood in the courtyard from our 4th...
"People snorting coke in Europe are killing the... →
I woke up on my own, completely refreshed at 5h45...
Thanks, pzizz. Forgot how much I love you.
Yesterday, after a trip to IKEA (where we bought two new dressers - one to be used as such, and one to be used as a bar - and picked out our new sofa, which unfortunately was out of stock) I threw the pear crisp that I had previously assembled into the oven.
It was awesome. I pretty much followed Deb’s recipe at the smitten kitchen, however butter estimates were probably way off (we...
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SOMEHOW, ON THE WAY TO SCHOOL THIS MORNING, A ROCK OR SOMETHING ELSE VERY SMALL MANAGED TO GET INTO THE KEYHOLE ON MY BIKE LOCK AND NOW I CANNOT UNLOCK IT FROM IT’S HOLDER IN ORDER TO LOCK IT UP AT SCHOOL.
Of course this would happen to me. Guess I need to go to the bike store today instead of tomorrow.
oh, and
He claimed he couldn’t fully explain it and would later, but I think seeing how angry I became deterred him from doing so, as he didn’t make any attempts after class.
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In class this week, we’re giving presentations on a topic of our choice to learn how to properly write and present assignments in German so that we don’t all look like total fools. (Today we saw three: renewable energy, foie gras, and the one that I’m about to tell you about. Mine is on the abolition of nuclear weapons.) The class consists of 15 students (plus an amazing teacher)...
Bursting at the seams to post about the sexism...
But not enough time to do it justice right now.
Potée de jeunes légumes, sauce au foie gras
I posted about this last year when I had it for dinner, and thanks to the presentation on foie gras that just took place in my class, I have been reminded of how awesome it was.
Recipe available here, and it’s totally worth trying out if you live in a city where you can actually get your hands on foie gras.
Just went to buy cola and spezi, and the guy in...
I also had to dodge firecrackers going off in the street.
Thanks, halftime.
I am so cute today but my laptop camera isn't...
so I just look like a black blop on the screen. C’mon dude.
It's already 70°F and it's only 6:30 in the...
Gonna roast today
Really glad I only spent something like 8 bucks (as opposed to the $50 something it retailed for) on my charm bracelet, as it turned my wrist green.
Today, I am wearing my Rachel Essex “Born in the USA” charm bracelet, complete with a New Hampshire charm that brings me close to home.
I also ordered four dresses from La Redoute. Would post pictures, however they do this strange this where you can’t see the actual items in your order history after you order them - just the type of article you ordered, the color, and size....
I’m on the search for cute (and cheap!) sundresses for the summer. Yesterday’s trip to H&M ended completely empty handed, and everything on ASOS is either more money than I want to spend, or not cute enough.
Fortunately, I’m currently browsing La Redoute and have found about a million things that fit the bill and are pretty reasonably priced (everything I want is under €15,...
the euro is at 1.19
I AM PEEING MY PANTS HERE INTERNET.