early last week, I found the perfect desk on the street, two houses up from my flat. It fits perfectly where I wanted a desk to be, and it is stained periwinkle. it's as mismatched as the rest of my furniture, and I love it.

now I just need the perfect desk lamp. I have work to do tonight, I'm starting to not have enough light and I don't think that the over-head will be pleasant long-term. I'm thinking I want something I can mount on the wall and have peer down at me.

if anyone sees something like that? tell me, please :)

feeling: .
listening to: the past is a grotesque animal - of montreal

I got here 4 weeks ago.

I am leaving in 4 weeks.

Starting now, the end of my journey in Germany is closer than the beginning.

Things were ridiculously difficult for the first three weeks, more than I ever imagined possible. The weekend marks my first multiple good days in row. Which is a very very good thing.

The good:
- I'm starting to know my kids, and they me.
- I'm starting to know what to do with them, and to be able to communicate what I want to do with them and their caregivers.
- I understand German better than I did
- I have a corner of apartment for myself, but it's also just off the common area, separated with a thick curtain, so I hear everything. It's not been a hug issue yet cause if I really want to, I can sleep through anything, but still.
- I have a friend. With whom to go for tea and on adventures and play board games.

The less good:
- My spoken German, while it has gotten somewhat better, still isn't good enough to my liking
- I'm realizing that I don't really like my job here.
- I have no money, because my brother conveniently didn't tell me that I would only be paid after he got back.
- I still find it difficult to Go Out and Do Stuff.
- Getting up at 5:30 every morning is really really difficult, especially seeing as it's still dark when I leave the house.

I'm dying my hair purple again today as a half-way mark.. or something.

Tags: germany

because sometimes I write.

( morning )

I need a 'grace' saying.. and I can't string thoughts together properly right now.

tomorrow for my kids. on wednesday I say 'grace' in english. my brother had one that I've forgotten, and of the two I know, one includes 'rub a dub dub' and the other the verb 'toot'

help?

So.

In Berlin.

free wifi! teehee!

I got to the hostel yesterday and checked in and promptly went to bed, seeing as I'd gotten about two hours sleep on the plane from Montreal to London, and the whole time difference thing.. woke up once around probably 10 or 11 (I had no clock), again probably around 3, when I read two chapters of anansi boys and then went back to sleep till what I assume to be a bit before 10.. showered and dressed and left the hostel around noon. Walked around a lot, took pictures, headed back here 'round 6 and discovered I had access to free wifi, ran down to the lobby to get a password and login name and a bowl of soup (I was very very cold) and...

here I am!

Tomorrow I'm going to the Berlin Zoo, and then Friday I'm taking a walking tour of... I've forgotten now, but it should be a lot of fun :D

Saturday my brother's picking me up on the way back from his trip to Denmark and then we're off to Leipzig, where I'll be till April.

wheeeee!

Tags: germany
feeling: pooped

Happy birthday to marginalia, a day late. I apologize. I had no internet access yesterday. EEE!!!

Happy birthday to joecaloric, today! mwahahaha! :D have fun!

Happy birthday to ME!... tomorrow.

I'm at my mum's with my sister and nieces, we're making plum sauce with pumpkins. it's fun.

Tags: birthdays

Wow.

Haven't update this thing in.. over a month apparently.

Lots has happened since Toronto :)

However. The main object of this post is.. well..

I'm going to Germany for two months, followed by 10 days in London.

I leave Feb 4th.

I come back April 13th.

My mind is like, WHOA.

My brother, who's been living in Germany for 6 years, is going to Taiwan for 6 weeks, and asked me to substitute for him at work. He works in a day-care type place, and teaches little kids English.

I am SO very excited.

And well, I'm slowly moving over to here, the new blog, which is also mostly in French, and which I also don't update much.

*dances*

Tags: germany, travels

Am back from toronto

and ded

Toronto people. ... or those who are nearby and or etc.

I arrive tomorrow night. Woohoo! coming home dec 3rd. leaving 11:30ish in the morning then.

Also, if nothing else, I really really wanna go see this show.

Who's in?

Tags: shows
feeling: excited

So it's official!

I will be in Toronto from November 23rd to December 3rd. Wheeee! probably arrived the evening of the 22nd.

*is excited*

I also have another translation gig! woohoo!

Tags: translation, travels

So yeah!

Assuming I can book the time off work, I'm going to be helping out mosaic artist friends of my mother's, Atelier Phébus, at the One of a Kind Show in Toronto. I'm super excited. I may not be there throughout the whole thing, depending on what I can get off, but likely from nov 22nd to dec 3rd, ideally.

squee!

feeling: excited

So. Um.

Torontonians.

Who of you could I possibly hit up for crash space, should I be in town between Nov 20th and Dec. 3rd?

More about this later when I get back to Montreal.

Bonus points if you guess at why I could possibly be in Toronto during those dates.

feeling: excited

Came home tonight to find a translation gig in my inbox. Yay!

...due in the morning at 9:30. Yikes!

So after 3 hours of intense work, I'm finished, and mighty proud of myself.

...and soon to be 100$ richer.

This is going to work, I tell ya.

Tags: translation
feeling: accomplished

"Chaufrette.

c'est quand même paradoxal, comme mot. c'est chaud, et c'est frette."

-salioe

Tags: stotd

I'm leaving in a little less than an hour, and by tonight, I will be in Buffalo.

I am all kinds of excited.

Back in town Sunday night, may or may not have internet access over the weekend.

Also. I love Andrew Bird. Hadn't realized how much I missed listening to him over the past week :)

Tags: music, trips
feeling: excited
listening to: imitosis - andrew bird

I am going to see Gogol Bordello tomorrow.

salioe went to buy some and they were sold out, but work called me today and told me they had gotten a pair of free tickets for me. Yay!

This also means that my current secret project will not be finished in time. Because they also called me in to work tomorrow cause someone is sick. I was a-plannin on finishing tomorrow. Silly me.

And I love making up awesome plans.