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with a finite number of days and a finite number of years hold your valentine close if you have one…
next year you might not…

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I feel sorry for australians too….now will that Rudd guy go back to playing the giant kazoo barefoot so I can get my groove on…
…I’m missing the point? oh well….I still feel sorry for you people…

I was called “complicated” and “too polite” by a german colleague tonight…It started me thinking…the three biggest compliments I’ve ever received are probably
1. you’re so random
2. you’re so british
3. you’re so complicated

at last I feel appreciated…

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I think I meant atypical american….I couldn’t think of the right word last night…I knew untypical wasn’t quite right…

might make my way to the states this august…might be looking forward to this
It’s all about the food…gotta start making a list of restaurants to visit…

garlic Jims……

there is something slightly cool about hearing a car driving on cobblestones…or maybe not…at least it’s not something we ever hear in the states….

everyday is Valentines day…

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I was sitting on my balcony tonight after work…it’s still light and the city is beautiful in the mornings/evenings…I really haven’t taken time to appreciate Frankfurt. There is a lot of the city I just haven’t seen…
I walked for 3 hours on Saturday morning along the river, and eventually made my way to some tourist plaque talking about Goethe University and the Palmengarten and Botanical Gardens…I made a point at the time to go visit the gardens, but didn’t make it there last weekend…hopefully the next weekend I’m back in the city…

am travelling with Matt to Bratislava and Wein (Vienna, Austria) this weekend…I once saw Austria from the top of a mountain (south of München). t’was lovely. I think I’m looking forward to this weekend…but I suppose we’ll just end up in an Irish pub watching football…hmmmm….is that what I want from life? turning into jeff/Monty…saturdays at an open air market…then the pub to meet the regulars…with an occasional weekend away…works for now I guess. It’s good to see new places and cultures…
My colleagues say this makes me a not typical american…

Cheers to mum for the vitamins…I was sick, but took them and feel a bit better today…

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only my dad and I will find this funny, but I might be the handiest person I know in DE. I guess this proves I’m just not a city boy…I know how to use a screwdriver…

someone with a mac has put me on their home page and this confuses me because I get 126 loads a day (everytime you open your browser). This puts too much pressure on me…

I will soon be moved to a department called “Product Production”. This is the best department name ever
I love my job, and am looking forward to this year at work…

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I was sitting on my balcony (deck) tonight and noticed lots of stars…in the summer I don’t see any stars (too bright until very early in the morning) and I remember sort of missing them when I first came here, but I hadn’t thought about this for months…I grew up in places where you could actually see the stars…I guess this qualifies as one of the little things that you miss whilst living in the city…Not sure the significance of this…

people do seem to miss the chance to ponder the “human condition”…this has nothing to do with stars, but with the many distractions we have now that keep us from pondering the important things…
like politics…
Chelsea Clinton is UUUuugly…

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It seems the weather never used to affect me when I lived in the states, but being here where the sun occasionally shines even in winter seems to bolster my mood a bit…or maybe I’m just way more in touch with my emotions of late…

I seem to have developed a smile line on my face of late…I’ve been waiting 10 years for wrinkles…at last they come… ))))))))

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I’ve survived today on 4 Balisto bars and a small ham sandwich from Aldi…This is healthy right?
Cooking for one is not one of the great joys in life…

to muzzle and to nuzzle are not the same thing…

I was a bit light at 18:00 today…it confuses me…I like arriving and leaving to work in the dark…it makes me feel like I’ve accomplished stuff at work…

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They say if you share your goals with other people you are more likely to complete them…(something about being viewed as a failure or ashamed or something)…

well I’ve decided to do something important next year…and I’m not afraid of failure or shame so I’m telling everyone that I plan to free tibet OR conquer mt. everest OR become president of the US (actually any country would be OK…I’m looking at you luxembourg), get over my irrational fear of smoking OR go to a funeral (or possibly an important religious or cultural ceremony of some sort) OR remember to buy birthday cards for important people (hi mom. Happy Birthday…you get no card again…it’s just cuz I’m lazy and I basically forgot…let’s be honest those are two character flaws that can only reflect on the parents…I’m not responsible for my failures)………..

Happy birthday to me mum.

and since I sometimes confuse people with my attempts at humour…that above statements are meant to be funny…but as always there is between 1% and 99% truth in most of the things i blabber on about…

I don’t really plan on doing anything next year…if one of those things i wrote about happens to happen to me through no fault or effort of my own I shall happily accept that good things are happening to me (George W).

and the combination of sarcasm, smiley faces and explaining sarcasm (see…it’s funny cuz…) has just made my head explode…this entry is over…

What a mess…

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I just participated in my first pub quiz (at Macs)…I wasn’t planning on it, but after my weekend I didn’t want to sit at home so I mosey’d to mac’s for dinner and was about to leave when i was invited to the pub quiz…we’ve talked about pub quiz for months and so I decided why not join…It was actually quite fun…with a little help from Mona I managed to finish in the top half…considering the number of questions on Europe, art, literature etc. I thought i did rather well…I did however get the question wrong about which president imposed prohibition and which one ended it…however I have to ask (now) if a president really had power to do that, or if it was in fact congress that would have done that…regardless…if I had known who was president during 1920 and 1933 I would have gotten the question right…I think my answers were wilson and roosevelt, but those were wrong…anyways…

i just managed to write the longest paragraph ever about basically nothing…

in post production i see that Harold and Kumar escape from Guantanamo is…being… post produced…(wow!!!! draw your own conclusions about that last sentence…. that is quality)…
Neil Patrick Harris is in it…can’t wait….

I can’t believe I was in London last Monday…seems like ages ago…

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