A couple of things I worked on have gone to print in the last couple of weeks and I finally got a chance to take some photos! My initial project from the start of my internship – composing the cover photograph for this magazine (including photoshopping the store photos within the photo to look like [...]
Mon, Jan 24, 2011 – 21:42
Things have been quite busy lately, between preparing the annual report design project at work – which has been occupying whole days for me – and searching for a new flat before my current lease runs out. Due to this search I missed the end of the Midgard game on Tuesday, so I will have [...]
Sat, Dec 25, 2010 – 11:03
Since Germans primarily do their celebrating on the 24th, I can now cross “Christmas in Germany” from my list of things to do in my life. Although I had some doubts at the start of the month, I would say that I’ve done pretty well in celebrating the holiday. We had vast quantities of thick fluffy [...]
I realize that news of my life in Cologne have been a bit sparse. This is mostly because all you people who think living abroad is really glamorous, are wrong. :P I wake up and go to work every morning in a world full of people speaking another language, spend the day photoshopping images or [...]
Wed, Oct 20, 2010 – 00:29
Before I start, this is a somewhat more personal post rather than news. Lately I have been doing some navel-gazing about my relationship with relationships, and I feel inclined to share my musings despite my usual inclination to avoid such things here. Maybe I ask too much in a partner – I’m realizing that relationships are [...]
Sun, Oct 17, 2010 – 12:44
Life and work are generally chugging along, and I haven’t had much to report lately. I get up, get ready for work, spend the day there, and get home to discover it’s already 7pm and I have to buy groceries and do laundry. I haven’t been terribly adventurous outside that, in part due to the [...]
My four-month apartment in the Nippes neighborhood (north side of Cologne) is a pretty sweet deal. I pay 320€/mo, which is about $440, and get my own room in a clean, new, three-person flat, complete with fancy appliances and —a rarity in Germany— a dryer. I’m waiting for the touch-sensitive stove to start talking to [...]
This past week I was in housing my boss found for me because I was only able to find apartments until the 24th and then starting the 1st. So there was a gap week where I stayed in his girlfriend’s room in a very old apartment building. She evidently studied art history, so I have [...]
Lately I’ve been learning an important life lesson. Well, several actually. First, I’m learning Adam’s advice of “you’re not hired until there’s a signed contract” first-hand, and learning that it actually happens frequently and not “that kind of thing happens to someone else.” Since leaving safe little nest of high school, I’ve had trouble accepting [...]
Sat, Jul 24, 2010 – 19:05
I know that pretty much everybody (including myself) is confused about what will be going on in Ellenland in the upcoming year. Having finished my education for the moment, I’m at a crossroads of deciding where to go next, and I’ve been feeling pretty paralyzed with the decision. In hindsight I expect it will be [...]
