I suddenly got an amazing yearning for Gilmore Girls. So I suspect that sooner or later this day I’m going to make camp on the couch with various types of junk food on the one and the remote control on the other side. The thought of this alone makes me really giddy.

But I have no idea where this yearning suddenly came from. It wasn’t there and then… just like that… there it was.

Now that I’m done with the important reading, please let me go back to missing Kraków fervently. I wonder if Kraków misses us, too.

This is stolen from srah. But it’s not like it’s my fault that all the good ideas are taken already.

The Amazing 2007 Harry Potter Live Blogging Event at Here Be Subtlety
(and seriously, what else are you supposed to do when you just came home from Poland?)

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So let me continue:

Hello street. Hello home. Hello couch. Hello kitchen. Hello bed. Hello books. Hello bathroom. Hello computer.

Unfortunately no hello to our neighbor so far, which wouldn’t be too bad IF SHE DIDN’T HAVE MY HARRY POTTER IN HER APARTMENT. COME HOME ALREADY!

If I can’t have the seventh Harry Potter in English on the weekend, at least I can have the first one in Polish. Not that I speak Polish, but still. I mean I’ve got the first Potter in Latin and it’s not like I really can read that either.

Via srah.

My Score: Longcat
85% Affectionate, 43% Excitable, 42% Hungry

Protector of truth.

Slayer of darkness.

Loooooong.

Longcat may seem like just a regular lengthy cat, but he is, in fact, looong. For proof, observe the longpic.

It is prophesized that Longcat and his archnemesis Tacgnol will battle for supremacy on Caturday. The outcome will change the face of the world, and indeed the very fabric of lolcatdom, forever.

Be grateful that the test has chosen you, and only you, to have this title.

To see all possible results, checka dis.

I thought it might be of interest that I successfully pulled out my fourth gray hair right here in Kraków. Apparently getting old doesn’t stop when you’re on vacation.

It’s Tuesday afternoon, which means that half of our week in Cracow is over. So far we’ve had an amazing time and I highly recommend this city to anyone who wants to spend some time in a pretty and charming European town. You shouldn’t be worried about communication problems. The standard answer to a shy „Do you speak English?“ is „Of course!“. My Polish vocabulary has about tripled in the last days, which means that instead of zero things I can now say three and happily show off my brilliant language skills by saying „Please“, „Thanks“ and „Good-bye“ in – as I imagine – flawless Polish.

We’re staying in an apartment right on Grodzka street, the connection between the Rynek Glówny and the Wawel castle, so there’s people, cars and horse carriages bustling around the whole day. It’s awesome to be right in the middle of the city with all the lively city noise around you.

We arrived here on Saturday around noon. I had booked a transfer from the airport, so we driven right up to where we are now, could settle in right away and then go out for a late lunch at the Chimera Salad Bar, which I would highly recommend to anyone who likes to eat. There are dozens of salads on display, the tables are set in the sunny back of the building, with colorful vegetables on display. After that we went for cake and coffee (or hot chocolate in my case) at the U Literatów, once again the tables were set in the back yard with little birds chirping for the delight of yours truly.

From then on we spent most of our time here eating, sleeping and hanging out in jazz bars. There’s live music every night in one of the countless jazz bars, the best one so far being The Piano Rouge right at the square, which is all kitschy and velvety, with glitter and plush where you can make yourself comfortable on one of the sofas and listen to a jazz quartet while sipping on a cocktail. I haven’t made any pictures yet, because we didn’t bring the camera the first time we went there, but I will and we plan on returning there this very night.

The rest of the time we walk around the city. So far there’s been no need for us to use any public transportation. The main attractions are all within walking distance. There’s a salt mine we want to visit which is a bit farther away (naturally, since you rarely see a salt mine in the middle of a city), but apart from that, we are happy with what we have around here.

And just about now, the husband’s getting ready, and we’re about to leave and go down to the river, have a look at what’s there.

Cracow is awesome. And it has wireless LAN access, too.

Even better, I can already say important things like „Thanks“ and „Goodbye“ in Polish. How cool is that?

If you don’t hear anything from me in the next week it’s because we’re in Krakow. If you do hear something from me here it’s because there might be wireless LAN access in Krakow. Who knows?

On a completely different note we haven’t heard anything from the real estate agent so far and it’s slowly eating me up. I think I might just wanna lay down and die. But just so you know it’s only been three days and the last mail we got was a copy of the mail she wanted to send to the lawyer. So who knows indeed? This might be a perfectly normal time span and mean nothing at all. Or at least nothing bad. I sure hope so.