first night in berlin

ya, i'm here.

nothing to say except that i finally got into berlin late last night. amazing (um, shitty) things that have happened since i've been here:

- had to talk to several "international finance" majors from cornell
- spilled a full nalgene of water on my bed at 3 in the morning; slept in cold, damp sheets
- ate breakfast next to talkative austrailian.


i'm sure the party will start any minute...

xo

me and edogg

finally made it. don't want to go into details now about the scariness of getting to erandi's subway stop but it was bad. here we are finishing some chocolate cake in a fake london diner. proof that we are together..again...after all these years.

dilemma of the century (summer)

so i have one week off in july. is it amsterdam, barcelona or moscow?

help!

air india, baby

so i'm getting pretty excited about leaving. mostly excited about flying Air India with a mother of respiratory infection... i might be coughing up baby kangaroos here (eww!) but just the though of flying with a carrier that has emergency landing directions as cool as this is getting me through. if you (YOU) are lucky i'll steal you one... i like the fact that neckties, pencils, pens, high-heels and glasses are NOT allowed in case of emergency landing. in other words, sexy nerds die first. also, it has been confirmed that they serve some crazy airplane-style curry (mmm) and show bollywood movies. let the absurdity begin...

uh-oh.

according to miss margot this is the new euro-trash hotness. oh no!!!! please note, this is not old... this is from december. apparently it started in amsterdam as some off-shoot of clog dancing; now popular w/dirty futbol hooligans continent-wide. i can't confirm any of this, just saying:



perhaps worse?

songs about ice cream

because it is going to be hot soon. you're going to need some ice-cream themed jams.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/mr-ice-cream-introduces-1-mp3.html
http://www.zshare.net/audio/ice-cream-thee-bang-gang-deejays-remix-mp3.html

things about texas

this year has been something else. meeting lauren rochell, finding out that architecture kids know how to do halloween properly, getting out to west texas and having my own space (!) for the first time in a year and a half have all contributed. mmhm. and getting through my first year of graduate school without losing it entirely - that was something, too.

ps. i miss you already, rochell.

a new career in a new town

i thought i'd start this blog with one of the pictures that ended my last one. this one, taken late afternoon by the rio de la plata, had me sitting on concrete and rebar and wondering how i'd mistook an estuary for an ocean.

so i leave for berlin on saturday. the second time in two years moving to a country with little or no working knowledge of the language. this time, however, its just me. you can find the other peregringo far afield on another continent. so its a solo mission, less company, maybe more time to make the posts funny. i hope so, anyways.

but berlin promises a few things: love parade, german classes taught by germans and visits with old friends. its enough to keep me excited even though getting there is going to be interesting.

margot, felix, erandi, karsten, p.g., see you soon...

xoxo