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I think what I was really trying to say last night with my comment about happiness is that people have constant distractions i.e. buying clothes, buying “stuff”, partying, working, greed, eating, TV and these things are often just distractions from people being alone with their thoughts and possibly a distraction to the fact that they are really doing nothing productive with their lives…though one could argue that eating, partying, and watching TV are their own rewards…as is shopping….and sometimes working…ok once again I question why anyone reads this…

I’ve decided I’m just not fond of the fox n hound. The food is bad…the food is bad…the food is bad. The service is pretty bad…however I’ve never had a waitress be so sincere when asking “would you like some ice cubes in your water?”. Wow eye contact and standing 2 inches in front of me to make sure I saw you….why yes I would like some ice cubes in my water…thanks!

happy thanksgiving…in honour of this day I think someone needs to kill whitey. Manifest destiny rocks…it’s only too bad that there weren’t any other diseases the natives didn’t have a resistance to…***

***Please note sarcasm. Too bad in a nation founded on “religious principles” (those wacky masons) there weren’t more “pro life” people back in the last half of the 1800′s or were the Natives not really people 3/5th rule applies there as well maybe…thank you jesus for letting us kill the weak and less than human…

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So a colleague has to buy a second condolence card this week and I said you should just buy a 12 pack (wow have I always been such an insensitive jerk?). Now that we’re old it’s only going to get worse from here.

My apologies to all the people in the states (and wherever else I’ve been) who will die before I ever see you again…it’s not that I don’t care.

I’ve been saying this for years, but never on this page…when I die I want my funeral to be me being fed to alligators or piranhas or something…Have me chopped into little bits and anyone who wants to throw a piece of me to the alligators can do so…how cool would it be if someone got too close and the alligators ate someone besides me….and i want circle of life to be played repeatedly while this is all happening…actually people should hold hands and sing along…

and i wonder as i sit here by myself, if one is not truly happy alone if they can ever be truly happy with other people.

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I just slept for 9 hours straight through…that probably hasn’t happened since I was about 8 years old…wow…feels good…

More importantly to my fellow frankfurters I was awoken to the sounds of people setting up trailers for the xmas market…it’s about that time….I know it doesn’t officially open until the 26th, but I’m guessing tonight there will be an option for gluhwein und wurst down below my flat…I’ll keep you all posted…

yes I’m writing this at 7:34 am…I was so excited to share my news I made an entry instead of getting ready for work….

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being sick is fun!

Friday night Luca was gracious enough to get a few tickets to an opening night at the museum he works at…(Senckenberg…thanks to Alec for describing his works as ,scientific stuff’)was a great night, even though I was just starting to get sick and was not 100%. We still had fun…here are some pics…

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tomology is apparently NOT the study of Tom…huh….

and for those people who have 3d glasses in their pockets…me me me…

http://www.joelfletcher.com/3d-nightmare.html

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got another “let’s burn this mother down” comment…how many times did I actually say that in Polen?

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the airport needs to have more comfy chairs like at a decent starbucks…plastic chairs or pieces of marble just don’t get it done for me.

I was listening to crackers Kerosene Hat and it was like hearing it for the first time…I love that…

I don’t have a real top 10 album list but rather a “Yeah that would have to be considered for my top 10 album list” (I’m saving the actual list until I’m homeless or have some kind of forum to ramble in….oh wait….)…so what was I talking about…..

yeah that album is on my “might be considered” for top 10 greatest ever…

but it’s personal.

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so I thought that I was not going to have a birthday this year (my plan) but geez you tell one little german that your birthday is coming and she just can’t keep it a secret…so I was invited to dinner…apparently it was some kind of surprise…gee lets have dinner on a tuesday…no special reason…we often go out for dinner on a Tuesday….

anyways it was a great night and really not expected…thanks to Kat, matt, 2,0, Luca and Phil (and Sanne for not keeping secrets) for taking me out and making me laugh on my day….as I’ve probably said 12 times…Napoleon had conquered Europe at 33…what have I ever done?

some pics

happy Birthday (in case you can’t read the card)…Jimmy James Squires…(wtf!!!!)…

and also was pleasantly surprised to find 2 cards from the states in my box…thanks to everyone in the states that wrote me a note…

also called my nan…

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thank you Techem for being the best alarm ever! You could of at least brought me coffee.

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just heard a cracker song and after the line

“just so we’re not being sexist…” you can hear someone talking in the background saying “what’s wrong with being sexy…”

from Spinal Tap the movie…

Elvis had a twin that died during birth (I think)…so that must mean the mother was carrying Elvii….yeah matt that was for you…ur such a skeptic….:)

from Mel:

” Although it is often supposed that octopi is the ‘correct’ plural of octopus, and it has been in use for longer than the usual Anglicized plural octopuses, it in fact originates as an error. Octopus is not a simple Latin word of the second declension, but a Latinized form of the Greek word oktopous, and its ‘correct’ plural would logically be octopodes.
Other words ending in -us show a very varied pattern. Like octopi, the plural hippopotami is now generally taken to be either funny or absurdly pedantic, and the usual plural is hippopotamuses. Common usage appears to indicate a slight preference for termini rather than terminuses, but syllabuses rather than syllabi. Other usual forms include cacti and gladioli, and our files at the dictionary department show scarcely any examples of nucleuses or funguses. (Omnibi is simply a joke, and quite ungrammatical in Latin!) “

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