Flatmate update:
She came, she collected, she went.
Have a new one now and am focussed on lowering my expectations mightily. I'm anticipating achieving suspicious serial killer behaviour by Wednesday (insert joke about muesli here).
Weather update:
Snooooolluussshh. But cold. The hat with the earflaps has come out of storage, and I am monitoring the incremental plummet of the temperature on the way into work via the digital display in front of the pet supplies store.
Edited to add: except for today, when it went up again. But there's snow in the mountains this year, and people keep sneaking off for mid-week skiing sessions
24 hours in Berlin update:
The only thing that it is possible to obtain in the big shopping mall atop Berlin Hauptbahnhof (I now call it Hbf for that air of Teutonic coolness) that I cannot buy here are fist-sized Dunkin' Doughnuts and fragments of The Wall. Instead, enterprising urchins supply the souvenir-hungry tourist with historic cobbles "from the streets of Old Prague", and we have endless variations on the twisty-sweet-bread theme, but while many are filled, none are fried.
Weird to think that only twenty years ago the sight of a Coke bottle was a novelty, and that a lot of the people I know here can still vividly remember the arrival of the first MacDonald's in Prague. But they did have little brown plastic hand-held video games of a fox/wolf and a duck. It seems a little like a parallel universe where the playmobil figures were machinists and miners, rather than doctors and firemen.
Back in Berlin, luckily for me, B. showed stunning resourcefulness in eventually locating me so I didn't have to take the last train back on Saturday and instead got my 24 hours in Kreuzberg.
DVD addiction update:
Six Feet Under. Blimey it's good. And I think I have a whole 6 seasons to catch up on. Woohoo.
Blogger language update:
It's gone back to Czech.
Mrs. Jana update:
It seems a second Mrs. Jana is hoving into view on the horizon. I will know more the weekend after this one.
Date update
I ate dates in Berlin. Also a persimmon.
4 comments:
I hope this flatmate is easier to live with than the last, EAP.
thanks, bookwormom. although i think the last one was pretty easy to live with. it was the leaving that was the problem... ;-)
The return of Mrs Jana! My prayers have been answered!
You may well feel differently, of course.
Ahhh... Tricky. This is another Mrs. Jana. An uber-Jana? A shadow-Jana?
Unfortunately, due to a timetable mismatch, we shall know no more until late January.
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