Ok, quick update: Cammy is here!! Since yesterday, when she got in at the crack of 8:30 am. It's been great seeing her, as usual. But tomorrow we are off for quite a trip: Berlin, Prague, Budapest, perhaps Croatia, and then Turkey!

Wish us luck! Hopefully no lost wallets, tickets, or broken bones! Should be fun!!!!

Things seem to be going a bit slow in Chile....
A conversation with Dylan:

BuckoGal (10:24 PM): so have you heard any new music recently?
BuckoGal (10:24 PM): or any news in general?
Macho Man110973 (10:25 PM): nothing significant
Macho Man110973 (10:25 PM): but I found this cool looking nut on the street today and I was just trying to open it by cracking it underneath the leg of my chair
Macho Man110973 (10:26 PM): but instead of opening it, the pressure flung it across the room and under my bed somewhere
Macho Man110973 (10:26 PM): it was kinda cool

Just wanted to share! Who knew that back in the day Brad Pitt could have easily passed for a woman? I think it's mostly because of the shirt.

Good times last night. Biked in really heavy snow with my friend Keinst to Cartoon, a restaurant that has 3-euro pasta dishes on Sunday nights. We met up with Eileen there, and by coincidence also met up with friends Steven and Tim. We sat at the restaurant until about 10:30, and then went outside to see a pretty good layer of fresh snow covering everything. Steven made a little snowman (which a drunk guy later knocked over, lol), and Tim and Eileen made a big snowman, except it ended up being a snow-monkey, due to the simian facial features.
We then played a rousing game of snow dodgeball, and then walked up into the pretty park behind us, attempting to throw snowballs into the lake below.
I think this is the first time I've actually "played" in the snow since coming to Germany--it was a lot of fun! The only part that sucked was biking back with wet gloves...I seriously started wondering how long it took for frostbite to set in because my fingers hurt so much!

Four jobs I've had
1. intern at Epson
2. karate instructor
3. pet-sitter
4. Epson intern...again!

Four movies I can watch over and over
1. Strictly Ballroom
2. Moulin Rouge
3. The Best of Will Ferrell
4. Conan's 10th Anniversary Special (yeah, the last two aren't tech. movies)

Four places I've lived
1. Monrovia
2. Davis
3. Germany
4. Japan

Four TV shows I love(d)
1. Buffy
2. Six Feet Under
3. Inspector Gadget
4. Looney Tunes

Four highly regarded and recommended TV shows that I've never watched a single minute of
1. Lost
2. West Wing
3. I don't know what else is highly regarded! I don't think the O.C. or Laguna Beach is....

Four places I've vacationed
1. Hawaii
2. Montana
3. Thailand
4. Vancouver

Four of my favorite dishes
1. pad thai
2. anything Indian
3. bean and cheese burrito from Food Time (I really miss cheap Mexican food)
4. Artichokes!

Four sites I visit daily
1. My blog (what a narcissist)
2. facebook
3. most of my friends' blogs
4. Candy Cane children (woo White Stripes!)

Four places I'd rather be right now
1. Southern Italy
2. Turkey with Cammy
3. Hawaii
4. Monrovia (But just to see my fambly)

So it was fun twice. Three times. Maybe even a fourth time. But now, I have to admit it, I am getting a little sick of this snow! It's predicted all this week for Göttingen. And it sucks, because it's enough to make me want to stay inside, but not enough to be exciting anymore. It's usually just enough to be slushy and slippery for a few days.

It looked like this at about 2pm:


Then I look out the window again at 3pm:


Pretty, yes. But a pain in the butt, haha. The Russian guy on my floor asked me if I thought I'd ever like to come back to Germany after I finish school. Bad time to ask. I just don't think I could handle these winters EVERY YEAR! But I might change my mind after a year back in CA. Who knows?