There was a reason why I wrote this post. The reason is an incident I’m currently not sure how I will deal with, but that again reassured me that I must be one of the world’s luckiest people. As you may or may not know I recently finished my training. Also, as you may or […]

This blog has really become a part of my life. I can tell, because every so often something happens and I find myself thinking: ‚I can’t wait to get to write about that.‘ That also resembles the way my blog changed over the months since I started it in October. At the beginning it was […]

I called the registry office in Geldern today and they told me we have to send a short letter demanding a copy of the so-called ‚Familienbuch‘ of the boyfriend’s parents. According to the nice lady we spoke to in Leverkusen that’s all we need. The boyfriend already wrote the letter and we’re going to send […]

(I get the feeling that the titles of my entries are getting too long.) Now here are the six days of the year when I realize I’m living in the wrong part of the country. I hate Karneval. Karneval is also known as Fasching, but don’t try to call it Fasching here. At least not […]

Yesterday I came home and found a package lying on the steps of the stairs. You will have to know that for whatever reason we have the tiniest mailboxes in the whole wide world. Everything that’s even slightly bigger than a normal letter doesn’t fit in, so it either sticks out for every stranger to […]

The Dogs of Babel… Check. The Eyre Affair… Working on it. Wicked… On order. Thanks to Brandon I ordered Wicked today. It was his favorite book of 2004, and since it was on my list I felt I had no choice but to go to amazon and secretly put it in my cart, then hurry […]

I decided to change the design of my blog. I’m currently working on it, and the best I can say is that most of it works. I couldn’t get haloscan to work yet, but everything will be fine real soon. Hope you like the new world. Update: I’m done for today. Everything is working, so […]

I just don’t know what to make of this. When I came back from work the boyfriend met with me and we went to eat turkish fast food and did some grocery shopping afterwards. We had four items: milk, some instant pasta thing and two bottles of beer. I then had to go through the […]

According to four mails I just got from dvdsoon.com my Wonderfalls DVDs have been shipped. According to my account on their website it’s still in packaging. I’m a little confused about the fact that they send me four emails with the same content, so I’m not really sure what to make of it. What I […]

Caitlin asked: My next getting to know you question was going to be about the meeting and falling in love of pi. Let’s make a long story short: University. Trip. Paris. You want more? Okay, you shall get more… I met the boyfriend the first time shortly after I started studying in fall 1999. That […]