Hello again

Well, I guess it’s time I updated again.  It’s been a pretty busy week. My mom and brother flew in a week ago, so I took my last day off school to go meet them at the airport.  My brother has developed quite a beer belly!  Then we all stayed in Graz, doing family things [...]

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Holy Eff, what a long post

Q: Could the past weeks have been any busier and stressful? A: No I still had to work on the 23rd, so Stefan and I took the train to Tirol that evening. He had called a few days earlier to reserve us seats on the 5pm train (normally you can take any train at any [...]

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Die Millionenshow

I would like to relate a conversation that just transpired as my Grandma and I were watching the Austrian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire. It is moderated by Armin Assinger, a former skiing champion. All Austrian celebrities are former skiing champions. But this is not a bad thing, as they are generally [...]

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Aufsteierern!

Today I saw a girl with dreadlocks in a dirndl.  We went to the festival of traditional stuff today in Graz.  It was actually really fun, and people didn’t look silly at all in lederhosen, they looked just right.  I also saw a guy with a pierced nose in lederhosen.  I actually felt out of place [...]

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Deep questions

Here’s an important question that my grandmother and I can’t figure out: is sugar a spice? I had to buy salt today, and I couldn’t find it in the store because they didn’t put the spices and salt with the baking supplies. But they put the sugar there. My reasoning was the salt belongs to [...]

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Optician = Hot

In response to ‘s posting binge, I felt like I should write more, even though I have very little to say.  Just got back from the city.  Mercifully, school started this week for our province (Steiermark), and thus the streets were not clogged with punky high-school girls with skin-tight, belly baring, garishly colored clothes, raccoon [...]

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Success!

Today was a most satisfactory day in most respects. I bought an internet cable for my computer to make Internetting from Mumama’s apartment possible. I made the train I wanted to Vienna, I met up with the future prospective roomate, a good-looking 21 year old business student (with a girlfriend). The apartment is great, my [...]

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Vanished

Well, it seems that the last journal entry I wrote the other day vanished into the vast emptiness that is the internet. This makes me question the likelihood of this entry making it. So I won’t put too much effort into it. I’m in beautiful Austria again, cursing the damn keyboards and loving the public [...]

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Ahhh, back in Oberwart

My goodness, easter break was so long! so long in fact, that the mashed potatoes i had forgotten in the fridge turned red and runny and had the worst smell ever. but im pretty proud that thats the only thing i forgot. after the prague fiasco, i came back to graz and chilled with the [...]

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