I’m very proud of myself. I have invented three new words so far, although I’m not so sure one counts as a new word, still I find a lot of appropriate contexts to use it. Please feel free to include those in your conversations and writings. I’d be happy to see my creative work spread […]

Situation: You’re on a trip to – let’s say – Darmstadt. You’re already on the train. You have spent the last of your money for those train tickets. You will be gone for the whole weekend. Friday to Sunday. You are with your overly neurotic girlfriend (who, apart from being overly neurotic, is very nice […]

1) I will buy something. 2) On a day like yesterday I will also complain about stupid women who are surprised when told by a not-so-stupid bookseller that Langenscheidt indeed has several packages containing CDs for Portuguese. It’s Langenscheidt! That’s like the #1-publishing house for languages. Get with the program, lady! And yes, there IS […]

Last night I dreamed that I was back at my old high school, but not as a student. I was just back there. Obviously there was some meeting going on inside with a lot of teachers and other people. Outside there was a TV-set with a VCR so for whatever reason I put in a […]

…as in no-more-glasses. We just came back from the optician and we both are wearing contacts at the moment. It was Pi’s idea to try contacts and somewhere along the road I decided I wanted to try some, too. I already had contacts for some years until a few years ago when I simply was […]

Movies and TV shows I haven’t seen (and don’t intent to do so) Schindler’s List I haven’t seen Schindler’s List. I know it’s supposed to be a great movie and is listed in every ‚100-Top-Movies-Of-All-Time‘-Lists I have read so far, but I haven’t seen it. The really strange thing is that I don’t even think […]