...More about what I do in my free time

Which is not particularly anything productive. I've been working on grad school applications, which is fucking annoying but must be done. For awhile I was using the daily show website non-stop to entertain myself but because of the WGA strike I really shouldn't use it at all since this is exactly what the strike is about. So what else. I've been downloading lots of podcasts, particularly Anderson Cooper, Keith Olbermann, and Bill Maher. Oh and also this one called The Bugle which is John Oliver and this other British guy. Then today I trolled YouTube watching random moments having to do with my favorite pundits--real and fake (which basically amounts to Stewart/Colbert/Cooper/Olbermann)

Um also I'm learning French, but the book/cd I'm using is in German. Which was all well and good to begin with, because it forces me to review German grammar a bit and I am learning new German words as well...but I just got to the section about explaining where you are from to someone and my options are Germany, Austria or Switzerland. I mean, yes its not that hard to look up how to say "American" in French online or something, but this does not bode well. That being said

je suis nous sommes
tu es vous êtes
il/elle est ils/elles sont

I totally did that without looking it up. So I hope it's right? and wait let's see if I can remember how to conjugate -er verbs....

I just tried it and realized I can't. I only started learning it last night. The one funny thing about the book though is all the things they compare to German, like "you may become annoyed at the fact the French do not pronounce the ends of their words. This, however, will pass."

Ok, and I will leave you with this video, which I love and makes me smile. I've watched it like 10 times already

Anderson Cooper swearing is adorable

...Still sick

I've found that I nap best with the soothing sound of Jon Stewart's voice. I think that maybe it's because I listened to America (The Audiobook) on the train from Bremen to Munich and was tired anyway, but I also think I used it to sleep on the plane. No, not because it's boring because I love America (both in book and audiobook form), and I know in general I sleep better with a bit of noise. Put the tv on and unless it's something I'm engrossed in I'm out light a light. Being sick the last week or so I've used it alot to sleep. I wish I could use the Daily Show website the same way, but it will only play one video at a time and you have to prompt it to go to the next one, which obviously defeats the purpose of trying to sleep to it.

You may ask why do I need variety if I'm going to sleep through it, I answer because I'm a fitful sleeper and wake quite alot and enjoy listening to the content when I am awake before drifting off again.

...I wonder if there is an audio version of Colbert's new book...though his voice isn't quite as soothing.

...I may have a home

Sooo, the girl I stayed with when I first came to Germany because Chinese student, whose apartment I was to rent, was not ready to move out, found another friend of hers who had an empty room in her apartment. So I get here and it turns out that while both of the totally empty rooms of this apartment are going to this other friend of everyone's the girl whose stuff is in the room where I am currently sleeping has been carted off to a clinic for anorexics. I assume that it's ok to post that because the girl who lives in 2 of the rooms in this apartment and girl with eating disorder's mom were talking about it openly in front of me. And that was also how I was introduced the room (You can stay here! She as at clinic for an eating problem.) So there are a few more details to work out, but yes. I may have a home. I dunno how much total I'll end up paying for it but we'll see. It can't be more than 300 Euro....I hope....which leaves me 407 Euro a month for food and incidentals.

At first I was a little taken aback by the fridge/cabinets because there was so little food in them. And then it was like, oh right, clinic...eating disorder. Small German girl with 2 rooms also has "eating issues" as she put it. I too have been known to struggle with "eating issues." While this may seem like a recipe for disaster I'm sure it will be fine. Especially with "large German male" moving in. If you see me online ask me what I ate that day, ask again to make sure I'm not lying. Not that I think that this house is going to turn into some sort of anorexia showdown because Small German girl is like 1/2 my size. I'll eat her before it comes to this.

My parents wanted me to write about the great time I had with them in Munich and I will. Just not today...but soon.