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In July I wrote about Berliner Luft, the soap bubbles. Now it is about Berliner Luft, a peppermint liquor that is best not drunken. However, 2.5 years ago I bought this bottle to celebrate the fact that I’d purchased some “Berliner Luft,” as in a few cubic meters of air high in the sky. […] Last night I kind of nerded out and started sorting through a massive stack of paperwork that’s accumulated over the past month – there’s something cathartic about sorting through all of it, punching holes in documents and putting them in binders. Maybe that’s not nerding, per se, but a sign of being too German. I […] I’ve been doing a bit of thinking about the expats that I know and whether or not they own their own home and – ignoring those that are married to locals – I can only think of one expat who owns their own home. Naturally I can understand why many expats might not buy their […] Hot tea, iPhone charging, MacBook, and the rest of my home environment. The view from my office window.
[…] Home. Although I do not really mind being single, I do mind living alone. Here’s the downside of living alone: I have to do everything. Laundry: Me. Hanging wet laundry: Me Folding and putting away clean clothes: Me Going grocery shopping: Me Cooking dinner: Me Washing dishes: Me Putting away dry dishes: Me Cleaning out the […] It’s hard to believe, but in a week I will be in Weimar. Ok, that was a bit of a tease, but in just over a week, I won’t be here—off on another one of my adventures to the New World: Hoosierland and Oregon. While I realize I was last in Hoosierland quite recently, the […] When I am on the cusp of travel, I start playing a mental game: where will I be in 24 hours; or 48 hours. Toward the end of travel, it inverts: Where was I 24 hours ago. 24 hours ago, as I write this on the train to Weimar, I was in asleep in southern […] And since I am home, I am doing the first thing I always do upon my return home. Laundry. I will write more substantive stuff tomorrow—but for now I want to give CQ a chance to catch up and post something with his own impressions of the trip. I have the next post pretty much […] Well, I’m back in Weimar. I arrived this afternoon and was greeted by a neighbor with a friendly “back, again?” according to Anja’s translation. And back I am. Between my laundry and the left-over laundry, I have at least six more loads to wash to run through the washer. Some how my two pair of […] |
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