Freizeit Stress

Time is winding down, I´m smack dab in the middle of the period when I should be buttoning down the hatches and bracing for the typhoon of work I´m up against in the next couple of weeks, so what am I doing? Making more social committments than I ever have before, naturally.

Last week Wednesday I finally made it to the Unikat. It is a new club that was started by my friend, Robert, that is open every other Wednesday. I missed the first two times, but I made it a priority to go this time. Ralf was going around with a digital camera and took some pictures of the people there. I think I may be in a couple of them, and there are also a couple of my friends in some-the new ones I made that night (Romy, Daniel, and Julia), as well as Basti, and I´m guessing Robert, and maybe a couple of others. The photos don´t have peoples names or descriptions with them, but they might be fun to check out anyway.

Last week on Friday I went and saw (finally!) the Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here show at the planetarium. It was very cool-a mixture of lasers, smoke, video clips, pictures, and music(of course). After the show, they just put the planetarium projector on to show the normal night sky and played Pink Floyd music. It was really kind of neat..and relaxing. It was like sitting outside on a perfect night and Pink Floyd music being the soundtrack of your life.

Sunday was Javier´s birthday party. Birthday parties are great, and this one was no different. ´Nuff said. He did get a lot of wine, being that it´s customary to bring something over to the host´s house and the most common thing is a bottle of wine, but thank goodness I managed to go home early enough and escape having to drink myself into a slumber.

Last night, Tuesday, I went to a little Russian/Slovakian party at the Wagner Café. It was about as normal as any other party in a café except, as you´d expect, there were a lot of Russians and Slovakians singing along with the songs in languages like Russian and German, of course, but there were also some songs in English, too-old "classics" like the Beatles, and Oasis, and stuff like that. I thought it was kind of interesting how one group of people would sing along with Russian songs, and others with Slovakian songs, but when a song in English was played, it seemed like everyone was singing along. It still amazes me that so many people in so many places listen to songs sung in English and that a lot of bands from different countries choose to write and sing songs in English. I mean, I understand why, but it still just blows my mind sometimes.

Tomorrow there is another party at a club that is being organized by the FSU multi-media students. I´ve heard it should be pretty neat, so we´ll see.

And finally, this weekend is the big Thuringer Wald weekend! Hooray! Remember when I told y´all about that way back when? Anyway, I´m really looking forward to it, and hopefully I´ll get to take some great pictures.

On Monday of next week, which is my dad´s birthday and St. Nicholas Day -HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD! There´s a card in the mail, I swear- I´m going to go to a presentation about Czech. and Slovakia. It should be pretty interesting, plus it couldn´t have happened with better timing seeing as how I´ll be heading down that way at the end of this month.

Good, so I think that´s about everything for right now. Whew, I´m wiped out just talking about it.