Dance the night away

Some pictures from this year’s Tirolerball in the Vienna City Hall.  Each year a different county of Tirol hosts it.  This year it was Innsbruck, although there was no discernible difference to last year.  It was just as cool.  We waltzed until I thought I would have to throw up because I was so dizzy.  [...]

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Apparently, the Austrian Minister of Defense can’t count

It is so cold today that it’s not even funny.  I don’t normally wear a hat, because I wear my hair pinned up, and a hat messes it up.  But today I tied a scarf around my head.  It was something like -15C.  I know that means nothing to my dear American friends, but here’s [...]

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AHHHHH!!!

I know I haven’t written in a while, and I know it is bad. But I have been over my ears in work! First I couldn’t find a job, and now I have so much work I don’t know what to do with myself! I’m teaching nearly 20 hours a week at the moment. At [...]

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Finally stopped snowing

Today a snowflake landed directly on my nose. It made me laugh. Unfortunately, the snow didn’t stick, and so it’s just wet outside. The Tirolean Ball was nice. It was in the Vienna City Hall, which is much nicer than the Lebanon City Hall. Stefan doesn’t have a proper Tirolean “Tracht”, which is the real [...]

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Another weird dream

I dreamt again last night, a couple of odd things. First, I had a nightmare that the Hungarians crashed an airplane into a tall building somewhere. I was there, in a helicopter, and I could see the people in the upper levels (because part of the roof was gone) panicking and trying to find a [...]

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Whew!

Wow, that was one busy busy weekend. Lots and lots of stuff happened, so I’d better get right to it. Friday I spent about 4 straight hours cooking Thanksgiving dinner for some Americans over at Paul’s place. This was incredibly stressful, and I was on the verge of tears by the end of it, but [...]

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So tired….

Last night I had dance class, after which one of my partners, Stefan, talked me into going out for a beer. So we had a beer or two. Or three. And then took a turn around the effing-freezing city on the way to Karlsplatz, where he gave me a kiss and demanded my phone number. [...]

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Ouch

Grrrr… I left the dishwasher door open all of yesterday, because things in there start to smell bad after it’s been closed for a while.  Well, we don’t have the lights on in the foyer or kitchen unless there’s someone in there.  So, naturally, I walked into the dark kitchen and banged my shin on [...]

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Snow -> Sleet -> Rain

Well, life goes on.  I had one final argument with my ex, in which he couldn’t understand why I’m still hurt by what he did.  He kept contacting me and trying to be friends as if nothing had happened (which, clearly something did happen).  I think it must always be this way with couples, or [...]

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Coordination, people!!

Ouchy. I went to dancing class last night, and I even remembered all of the names of the guys I danced with the last time, which I was very proud of considering my normal success rate at remembering names. I’m always forgetting the names of my colleagues. Especially which first names go with which last [...]

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