Foreign ÅłρĥăβέŦ

Lately I decided that I would like to live in a city that contains a letter in its name that is not included in the American alphabet. You know, there are many choices: ö ø ü å... and of course all the ones with accents. I figure that if I live in a place with one of these letters, than I maybe I won't have to abide by the norms and expectations characteristic of the US.

Unfortunately, København will be harder to come by now as I found out this week that I did not get that DIS internship. Maybe sometime in the future it will work out, or I can try out Malmö, Zürich, or Münich... you get the idea.

Squirrels beware

They're installing an electric fence around the perimeters of the quad this year to keep off the students.



















We've got to have the quad looking good for when we put all those thousands of folding chairs on it.

guten tag!

Why is it so much easier to procrastinate when you have so many things to do?
I just listened to an eight minute podcast on how to learn German. It was actually quite good, and I like that it was hosted by Stephan, which is my brother's name (though spelled a bit differently).
check it out.
http://german-podcast.de/

Well at least I can say there is somewhat of a connection. I am supposed to be writing a paper on Walter Abish's novel how German is It? which does happen to contain at least a few German phrases.

I would very much like to visit the Black Forest.