Sanne threatened to speak only Deutsch to me…this lasted about 2 sentences…I did learn windy though (das Wetter ist Windisch)…

my colleagues threaten to do this about once a week, but it never lasts either, though I do miss out on large chunks of conversation because I can’t speak…I always figure if it’s important someone will tell me about it later…

however I am glad to report, that my Deutsch is indeed getting slightly better. I can sometimes read paragraphs and get the point…

Was stuck in a roomfull of drunk brits last night…as usual I was observing/studying people too closely…Since there was lots of drunk brits flirting with each other I have to write about this.

the whole interplay between men and women is always interesting…I love the body language and glances that a woman gives a man when she’s obviously interested. Usually the glances are subtle (when the man looks away etc.) …but being as I’m just observing others I get to see them. (I’d write about unsubtle glances but then we’d just degenerate into a discussion on MS 😉

Men are funny in this way too…some men are completely oblivious to what she’s thinking…Some men think every woman is into them (is this too much self esteem?)and some men (falsely) think that no woman is in to them.

It’s like a reverse of women who are friendly and seem to be flirting with every one they meet. It may not be intentional, but these signals are confusing…Guys need more help in this regard.

There should just be a common set of rules here…

I was trying to find a pic to illustrate this, but the ones I have only marginally show this…then I was trying to find a pic of a woman giving a dirty look to a man…didn’t find anything good on my hard drive for that either…

there’s a great band called Beirut (can I just call it world music?) with songs titled Bratislava and another called Brandenburg…two places I will have been by the end of this year?!?