I couldn’t resist, it’s too awesome. [Meanwhile meme, in case you don't know it]
Lately I’ve been watching some German TV shows to keep up my language skills. My favorite so far is “Heute-Show” from the ZDF channel, which has the same premise as the Daily Show – political news review. Sadly, Heute-Show is only once a week, but the great commentary on the country’s politicians is very entertaining [...]
Continuing the post from last time about things that have struck me since being back in the US… I was finally starting to get used to German grocery stores when I left, so now I miss the routine I was falling into. I’ve even gotten into the habit going to the store every other day [...]
Strangely, the culture shock coming back from Cologne wasn’t as bad as when I came back from Dessau. I guess this time I knew what to expect from Americans vs Germans – how the two countries would be different. There are things I miss from Germany, but this time, I already had an idea what [...]
Things have been quiet around here while I look for a job. The weather hasn’t even been all that good for taking pictures. So I have some silly things for you. First off, the German news is apparently being silly again. Next, what I will now always think of when I see Cosmo in the [...]
I got back from Italy Monday night (the 28th) and then it was time to start packing things up and getting my last memories in before it was time to go. I went to the Cologne Opera on Thursday night with Patrick to see “The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny” in German, [...]
Quick post: I’m back at my parents’ in Illinois, jet lagged and disoriented from 20+ hours of travel. I have a bunch of half-written blog posts that I need to sort out before I can post them (not to mention IRL things like doing my taxes, catching up on my health checkups, and looking for [...]
Well, Germany may not reach Engrish on quite the scale that Asians do, but using English words left and right is so popular that there’s a song about it. The problem is that they usually use the words wrong, and either think they’re using the actual English word (as in the case of “handy” for [...]
Thursday opened the Karneval celebration proper in Cologne. Several of my coworkers took Thursday and Friday off, either to spend more time celebrating or to run away from the city-wide party. So things were really busy while we struggled to make up for the missing people, so it was pretty much all work and no [...]
What have I been up to? Well, various design projects: The client wanted the above design done on a very short timeline, but since they thought their play on the company tagline was hilarious, they were easy to please. Also some doodles… (notice they are iPhone dimensions, for those of you with fancy widgets!) I’ve also [...]
