February is coming. Tomorrow. I suppose, really, I ought to hate December more–it’s the month with the longest nights and well, really, the most stress–but at least I’m distracted by Christmas and my birthday, and, well, the stress. I’m always glad when it’s over, but I enjoy it while it lasts. And Germany–and Dresden, in [...]
We just finished torturing both of our cats. But it’s really not our fault. It was the doctor’s orders. The story begins with Momo throwing up tons last weekend. We didn’t know what it was, so we made an appointment with a veterinarian. . . today, because it was the first available date. Since then [...]
It’s been a while now since I said I’d dedicate my freetime more to writing than to, well, other things. It’s been a good time, and I’ve learned a lot about myself and about writing. The Jena-Novel is still under construction, and I hope to have a very rough sketch of the first semester (which, [...]
Maybe I’m a bad person, but I just recently joined the German equivalent of Facebook, Dshini.net. . . except that it’s a much smaller community and seems to be based around Jena. If you’re wondering why I joined . . . I can’t really tell you. An exchange student from my semester in Jena works [...]
This morning the first thing we heard when the radio alarm clock went off was this: the police had cleared a beech tree in which protesters had been sitting for over a month. Today, the tree will be cut down. In a spectacular example of third-rate journalism (this is one story I’ve heard a lot [...]
My first YouTube video. . . and it stars Maus and Momo.
If you’re sitting glued to your computer, waiting . . . There are a few more Maus and Momo photos (including the new, bigger and better scratching tree) on their gallery.
I’ve done my writing with Google’s documents and spreadsheets service since, well, since I was aware it existed. It has some drawbacks: it’s not a real word-processor, and you have to be connected to the Internet to use it. But, I live in an always-wired world, I decided that the advantage of never having to [...]
I have to admit that life is different with cats that I thought it would be. You think of cats, I think, subconsciously, as object. It’s easy to think that it’ll be fun to play with them in the afternoon, or have them on your lap during the day, and then put them ‘away’ when [...]
I’ve long argued that it’s pretty arbitrary to randomly choose the beginning of January to decide to change my life. After all, once you’re as close to perfect as I am, well . . . you start making the small adjustments necessary as you notice that they’re necessary. And so, I’ve been routinely trying to [...]