Turkey Day

It's sorta disheartening (sp? even a word?) spending Thanksgiving away from home. This will be my first Thanksgiving I've spent away from Chicago since I was 7. Before that I don't really remember so it doesn't really count. Well, there were the times we had Thanksgiving at Nanie's in RI, but that also doesn't really count.

I hate how hard it was to organize some sort of dinner here. Everyone is all cliqued off and it's really frustrating. We're here in a foreign country, and there's a whole huge group of us that just hang out with the couple Germans that speak really good English, and do nothing but speak English and be exclusive. But I rant. I am having dinner with a few of the Americans I feel I get along decently with. I just wish we did more stuff.

Tomorrow is London, my train leaves the Hbf at 7.20, which means I have to catch a Strassenbahn at 6.43. That means waking up at the latest 6.00. Whatev, it will be much fun and there will be many pictures. Monday morning it's London -> Berlin, which will also be much fun. At least I've been there and can show the Mother around and pretend to know what the hell I'm doing in this country.

I need to download MATLAB so I can start on my DSV project. Well not really a project, but I don't think I necessarily have to do it in the lab if I have Matlab at home, which is nice. I just have to go in and demonstrate my results at the end of it, which won't be a problem.

Hmm. Anyways, I need to go try to find sweet potatoes. And beer. Where in the world am I going to find beer.

Instant Coffee

Why is instant coffee so terrible? I mean it makes sense that anything instant can't be as good as the original. Milk, for instance.

I just wish I had an easy way to make one cup of coffee in the morning. Just one. But any coffee pot only makes a bunch. It sucks.

long time no see

Wow, my last post was about being sick of moving out of my place in Gansett. However, since then I have moved out, moved in, moved back out, moved in, moved out yet again, and finally somewhat settled in here in Germany.

I think I might actually try to update this thing a little more often than I have been in the past. But that's just an empty promise in all likelihood. I'm pretty sure I've said that before so it's up to you if you believe me.

I should say something about Germany. I dunno, eventually I'll start posting about my general observations and things that I've learned while I'm here. You'll probably be entertained.