okey dokey...heeeeeeeere we go!

number one: i had my first german lesson today, and it ruled. i forgot how much fun it is to learn new languages (call me crazy...) but i really wish i could just learn new languages as a career, and not actually do anything that requires production or progress to make a little money.

number two: it's the weekend! so what am i going to do? get a few bottles of wine and spend my friday night at the apartment, because the transportation system is on strike at the moment, and i can only get home during rush hour, when they open the system to get people home. their strikes usually last about 24 hours, and they are always announced. it isn't a huge deal, because apparently they happen often, and they re-open the system to get everyone to work and back again during the peak rush hours. interesting.

number three: yesterday i saw a bunch of guys breakdancing in the trainstation...and it was cool.

number four: america really needs to get in on the european yogurt wagon. today i had cantelope flavored yogurt, and i know i have kiwi and watermelon back at the house. why can't we have cool flavors like that? i'm a little sick of plain, vanilla, french vanilla, and "mysterious fruit with stuff jelled on the bottom". plus, their hot chocolate here is damn tasty...like, you basically drink a cup of warm chocolate pudding, man oh man i want to go get one right now.

number five: so since i've gotten here, my ankles have swollen up the size of great-aunt mildred's, and i have had no way of icing them, since we have no ice trays, and they don't sell bags of it at the kwiky mart like we do. (in fact, they don't even have kwiky marts, really) a few nights ago, a moment of ingenuity struck me, and i put two small fying pans in the icebox of our fridge. my little ankles are looking like nicole kidman's at this point...sweet. speaking of ingenuity--the living room area of my apartment has two cots, which are supposed to pass for couches...i made it into a real couch when i put the mattress of one cot (that no one could sit on because the frame was bent) behind the other one. we've been spending our time watching arrested development on my computer before our average bed time of 10:00 + 2 bottles of wine.

number six: happy birthday one day early, joe. have fun at big n' rich with the rest of the fam.

number seven: that about does it, i'll be posting again after 48 hours of playtime. woot!