Blogging on a Saturday Night
Yes, it's boring here. I'm on a hiatus between travels and fests, doing laundry and basically having a stay-in tonight. A 17 year old girl's social nightmare brought to technicolor life. The high point of the day was a trip to the grocery store and Obi, where I was informed that I can't return my propane tank without the plastic valve cover (left at home) and they don't have that size anyway. It made the grocery store look positively routine. Still, I do find ways to amuse myself. French red wine starts at 6 Euros a bottle (I spend at least 8) and my business trip to Dresden, though it did not produce a solution for a Belleville spring, did produce a local after dinner liquor that has to be lit on fire before consuming, Grubenfeuer. I got some big bottles as gifts but, of course, they have 2 shot samplers as well.
As a minor update on the tourist thing, Bill and I did get to Heidelberg Castle several weekends back. Probably one of my more favoritist ruins in Germany, partially because it's so big and partially because there's no sense in it being a ruin - the Allies ruined it by bombing. Here's Bill considering all that, or maybe just looking at the river. Either way, I have several of these sneak attack pictures.
Funny how life in Europe has simply turned into life. Normal frustrations, like my washing machine dying a couple of weeks back and having to replace a couch because my neurotic cat is not adjusting to his temporary change of life and is peeing on it. No coffee shop encounters with black-clothes-wearing, bisexual, weird black and white film making Dieters. Just regular old stuff.
I haven't exactly started a countdown clock, but I'm acutely aware that I have just 4 more months here, which is a dwindling amount of time to experience a few more things European.