Schifoan

We went skiing last Saturday with some friends of ours, in Schwaz, just across the valley from Stefan’s home town. It’s the only place I’ve ever skied, actually, because it’s just so convenient. In case you’ve never skied before, here’s what you need: long underwear, special padded socks, ski pants, a ski shirt, possibly some [...]

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Everyone’s sick but me

Another boring day. Neither of my colleagues are here today, one is sick and one is taking care of his sick kid (which is a paid day off). I haven’t managed to be sick since I started working here, other than over Christmas break. That was clearly a reaction to coming down off the stress of December, though. Perfect [...]

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Last Day of Vacation

Back in Leonding.  We spent 3 weeks in Tirol, due to me being between jobs, sort of, and Stefan being forced to use up his vacation days.  It was pretty nice, but my in-laws stress us both out after a certain length of time.  Christmas was nice, I have some pics up on my Picasa [...]

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Ouchy

We went skiing yesterday.  I had what is hopefully my last official lesson.  I was worried that I would’ve forgotten everything, since we didn’t have a chance to go last year, but in the end, it came back to me pretty quickly.  We skied on the baby slope with Stefan’s uncle (my teacher) for a [...]

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Driving in Austria

Before the lecture, my weekend was pretty ok. Stefan and I took my parents to visit his parents in Tirol. The weather was pretty crap (15° C and pouring rain), but we saw some nice stuff and the parents seemed to get along. Neither party decided to act weird the way that parents like to [...]

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Mmmm, blueberry fruit gummy things…

Flavored with real fruit juice! Well, I’m back from semester break. First to Graz, to the G-ma, and then to Tirol with Stefan. On the way to Tirol we were lucky, got two seats across from each other. Semester breaks are staggered in Austria, and last week was Vienna and Lower Austria. So every single [...]

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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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Home at last

Made it! Flying is stressful, tiring, demanding and not fun (which the Germans have helpfully combined into a single wonderful word, “anstrengend”). But this time it wasn’t so bad. I sat next to a lady who gave me the email address of some girl she knows in Vienna. An American apparently, from Ghana. No Viennese [...]

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