I got a job recently as well. I'm in an assembly line making treadmills. The pay is compassion, the hours are compassion, I gotta bike 2 miles every morning to be there at 5:30, but it's a job.

I'm also going back to school, just taking a couple evening classes but it should keep me busy. I also finally started the book I've been planning for nearly 2 years now. The narrative is unlike anything I've ever read before, I really didn't expect I'd write in that sort of style after such a long absence from fiction writing. It's the only way I can do it though, and do it consistently. It's hard to explain but I might throw in an excerpt later.

Oh yeah and I have a huge crush on Kristen Stewart. I mean I've always thought she was one of the most beautiful girls ever but I read a little bit about her and she likes Charles Bukowski, Albert Camus and John Steinbeck. She also like Iron & Wine. If there was such thing as a soul mate, she would be it.

This post has been edited by DoomedOne: Aug 20 2009, 04:04 AM

I'm back from Eastern Europe. The trip was fun if utterly not according to plan. I'm also possibly now persona non-grata in Transnistria, a country (for want of a better term) which beg many questions: who is in charge? do the people really love the president so much as to give him 103.6% of the vote? (yes this really was announced in one area) and how many zeros will be on the cost of a loaf of bread tomorrow morning in their self proclaimed currancy? It was a fun place though (at least until the border but I did get a student rate on the fine).

I started in Poznan (western Poland) with the intention of going north though Scandanavia and getting a ferry from Norway to Scotland but it turns out the ferry has been cancelled so I got a cheap flight back from Kyiv instead. Went through Poland, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, back to Moldova, Transnistria (if its not part of Moldova, it has its own army, currancy and government (last remaning SSR in the world) so I'd say so), and finished looping though the other side of the Ukraine.

Other than the Transnistrian madness other highlights were Lviv which somehow survived WW2/ cold war completely intact and is well worth a couple of days if your every within striking distance and Kyiv which is really nice and has all the good points of Ukraine and none of the bad. Any country where beer is classed as a soft drink and vodka is about 2.50 euro per litre is by default fun, if not particularly productive.

So yea, Eastern Europe is good fun...

This post has been edited by Olen: Aug 29 2009, 09:44 AM

Oki Olen, I,ve been to Ukraine as well, many years ago, so yeah, I agree it's interesting in eastern europe...Aaaanyway I'm now back from my camping-trip in Germany (former east germany as a matter of fact) The island Rügen was wonderfu as always. Wew had fantastic weather, warm and sunny. So there was time for swimming, sunbathing and above all...good food, drink and so on. And..I don't have to go to work on monday...oh noes...still vacation!

...if you don't have to live in it.

I'm back at the University of Minnesota now. I'm going to be boarding at a fraternity this year. It's a dry frat (so no partying), and the people there are really friendly.

I think I'm going to like it here.

Ok--work again tomorrow, hmm can't say I'm looking very much forward to it, but wtf...it's life!

I thought that was an oxymoron. (haha)

Anyway, since I've been done with school, I haven't found a job, but I did get an (unpaid ) internship that will give me some good experience. Only problem is, I still need some kind of job to hold me over.

Similar here, I back in Edinburgh full time now living with the same four people as last year but in a different flat which is better and cheaper. This does have downsides, like yesterday when I had a chip pan overflow and the fat on the hob top catch fire I realised (after spending a few moments shouting 'bad fire' 'go away' and 'fire inside... not good' and waving my arms around) that I hadn't a clue where the fire blanket was. Fortunatly a wedge of dishcloths sufficed in its place. Who knows what the moral is, perhaps that shouting at fire doesn't work but seems an exquisitely good idea when there is one.

I just found out that Patrick Swayze finally succumbed to cancer. I'm really, truly sad about it.


RIP Patrick. You will be missed dearly. Road House is and shall forever remain the film that is dearest to my heart, and everything I've heard about him suggests that he was a good person and a real class act. My thoughts and prayers are with his family.

'Tis quite a loss. I've never been big into his films, but he did seem a class act, and it's always sad to lose those sorts of people.

I find I'm quite sad about this as well. I actually woke up to that news this morning.

He was a good and versatile actor - contrast his role in Dirty Dancing with that in Donny Darko and you'll know what I mean

Rest in Peace

Yay! I finally have my driver's license! Took the test today and now I can make unsafe all the streets of Europe! \o/

YAAAYY! Congrats Stargie! So now you have no excuse but to come to Sweden!

Congratulations!

So that's why I felt a sudden dread about taking the bike to uni?

Great stuff, make the most of it while there's still petrol. Are you planning some kind of roadtrip?

I'd probably enjoy that, but alas, no time. Have to work lots and lots right now.

Today I wanted to take my car for a ride for the first time, and what happened? I wanted to drive the car out of the garage and when I fired the ignition the sound was all wrong. Had to get some starting help because the battery was almost empty on account of the car standing around all that time. But after that it was very enjoyable

(Plays riff from the Beach Boys' I Get Around)

Ah these young men and their automobiles. Why back in my day....

My first car was a 1966 Mustang with a 3-speed manual transmission. And this was the time of the year I loved going for a drive.

Most cool, Stargelman. Enjoy.

Dear god. I am not going to be a pedestrian in Germany at any given time, I mean, Congrats Sarge! That's... heh, wonderful news... keep us posted, 'kay?

This post has been edited by milanius: Oct 1 2009, 06:01 PM

I just watched my Twins beat the Tigers to get into the playoffs. Live. Three tickets, third row from the top.

Best $37 I ever spent. I am keeping that Homer Hanky FOREVER.

This post has been edited by bbqplatypus: Oct 7 2009, 05:41 AM

One of my fondest memories is of riding the subway all the way from the tip of Manhattan to the Bronx and watching the Yankees play Seattle. It was a weekday afternoon game, so we bought general admission tickets and then moved to empty box seats along the first base line.

I don't much watch baseball on TV, but there is something about being in the stadium that is just transcendent....