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The last few days

LOL. That's annoying. I was tracking down one last link for my "the last few days" entry a few minutes ago, and I clicked a link that caused Mozilla to bomb. Now I get to write everything all over again. Except I don't really want to now. Anyway, here goes:

Friday: Rock climbing. FINALLY! It was strange though, I was told by a girl, in broken English, that we can't use ATCs in the gym. "Because you might not know how to use a 8 or a carabiner," she said. That's all fine and good, but I don't own a super 8, and an ATC is safer anyway, in my opinion. Elitist pigs.

Saturday: Beautiful day, so I was a-walkin'. All day. And late at night. Or something.

Sunday: Missing Buddhist meditation/chant again. The Amme's were out of town, it turns out. Clemens called me Monday and apologized profusely for not telling me about that beforehand. Turns out meditation was at another member's house. Ohwell. He has added me to the Dresden Buddhists email list
Sunday afternoon: Studying with Andreas.
Sunday evening: Dinner with the Wills. Mrs. Will is an American expatriot who married Mr. Will (they met in the US), a Swiss architecture professor. They eventually moved to Dresden. Mrs. Will is good friends with my dad's new boss in the US. So we're one big happy family. Or something. I played guitar for Mr. Will, he says bring my own guitar next time and we'll jam. Cool. They're really neat people, and I think they all dig me (must be the accent). Mrs. Will kindly loaned me a bunch of books, as English language books are very expensive in Germany.

Monday: Boring. Class. Sleep.

Tuesday: Much the same, but I went to see Harry Potter 2 in the evening. A so-so movie. Don't get me wrong, the books are cool. I just subscribe to The Onion story about the Harry Potter movie getting kids away from books and watching movies again. Maybe that's why I liked the books so much. My decisive analysis is that they're mediocre for "literature" (I mean, they're just kids mystery/fantasy books). But I read a lot, and I think reading a lot is good for your brain. So HP is good.
Funniest things about the movie? Subtitles. And the title itself: Harry Potter und die Kammer des Schreckens. Yes it was that way for the movie, even though the movie was in English. And when Harry writes in the journal, the answers came back in English with Germany subtitles. "Yes" with "Ja" written below, and "No" with "Nein". Everybody in the theater cracked up at this. Also, Tom Riddle's middle name was changed (only in the subtitles) so that his name would be "Ich heisse Lord Voldemort" (again only in subtitles) when he writes his name in the air and plays anagrams with it.

Wednesday: Public holiday. Loafing around, reading. Doing sit-ups. Eating. Going to sleep :).

This whole situation of having to type the entire entry twice has made me decide to type entries in emacs now, and then paste them in. Ugh.

Posted by reid at November 21, 2002 12:34 AM | TrackBack