Almost forgot

Almost forgot. I went to see “The Great Dictator” last night. It was… interesting. I like Charlie Chaplin, but this movie was made in 1940, so I went into it feeling like I knew how it was going to end, you know? Chaplin’s spoof of Hitler was hilarious, and his counterpart’s spoof of Mussolini was [...]

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Goodbye, cruel world

Well, this is my last night here in Oberwart. It’s been quite a ride, and the ride has been mostly downhill. But with a sharp uphill swerve as I’m about to go home. Everything I own (that is, the stuff that’s not gathering dust upstairs at the farm) is in boxes and suitcases, piled around [...]

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Passing the time

I just realized why the language my Sims speak is so familiar to me. It’s remarkably similar to what I just heard on the Hungarian channel. Who knew? Well, I’m mostly just tired of packing and moping about John. Granted, I haven’t been doing either for very long yet. But they both still suck ass. [...]

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Packing

Wow, I have more stuff than I remember… I just started packing. Mostly because I can feel my mom freaking out across the ocean. “You are leaving in 4 days and you haven’t started yet?? This may spark the apocalypse!!!” Anyway, it doesn’t look like a lot of stuff when it’s in the cabinets. But [...]

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A formal apology

I would like to humbly apologize for all my complaining about the Austrian bureaucracy. Today I went up to the Bezirkshauptmannschaft to hand in my application for extension of my visa. Now, the BH is only open a few minutes a week, so I was lucky to get there during one of them. The lady [...]

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Nobody loves me, everybody hates me, I think I’ll just go and eat worms

What a weekend. Went to Vienna and said goodbye to all the assistants. Fun times, but I will really miss them. Or, if they are reading this, I will really miss you guys! And I really mean that, not just in that superficial way that many people do. I think I got really lucky this [...]

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Summer plans

Well, here are the long awaited summer plans. I’ll be flying in on the 7th or so. I was going to stay w/ John for the first bit, but with him working full-time to pay for Austria and moving and all of that, we figured it’s probably a better idea for me to just head [...]

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haha

I just heard the best ever term for being bald on “Ein Kaefig voller Helden” (Hogan’s Heros). “Einen breiten Scheitel” – “A wide part”. Perfect! And it rhymes! I also like how on the dubbed version of the show, the Americans speak Hochdeutsch and the Germans speak dialect. It’s not at all a bad idea. [...]

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Grrr…

Know why I’m angry right now? Because while I was gone, busily teaching my wholesome students about the wonders of the American school system, a pigeon must have flown into my room. I got back and there were papers lying everywhere, feathers on the floor, and pigeon shit on my map of vienna. In my [...]

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Auslaender Raus!

Just had an interesting conversation with the teacher I correct papers for.  She was advising me (without me asking) about where to live in Vienna next year.  I told her I’ll be working in the 9th and the 16th district. She said, “Oh, you can’t live in the 16th district!  That’s where all the immigrants [...]

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