~sigh~
So I'm tilting at windmills again ... unfortunately that's an English allusion to a Spanish novel, so it makes exactly zero sense in German and I can't come up with anything equivalent to get it across properly. Saturday morning I received texts and e-mails stating and asking, "I would love to come to Amerika," "I want to meet all your friends," "Do I need a passport to get into Amerika, or ist my EU ID card enough," and "Oh, remember how I was on Urlaubssperre (standard 6-month vacation ban on new hires in Germany)? I'm getting a new job so I have 8 days off starting Saturday." Yes, I have a vested interest in connecting those dots into a line of thought, but she made it mighty easy to do so. Six hours of work spread over Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning, and $1600 later, she had had an e-mail with every contact and link she'd need to have a passport by Friday, a plane ticket for Saturday morning that lands her in Boston Saturday afternoon, and a laundry list of questions about what she wanted to see over the seven days she'd be here so I could get together some kind of plan on how to accomplish as much of it as possible.
What do I get Sunday evening but a series of text messages about how I misunderstood her meaning and she's really sorry? As a bonus this is while I'm driving home from NY, so I kept having to try to respond without running into anything. Texting at all while driving is always an issue; doing so in German adds a whole new layer to the problem, since I don't have keys on my handy for ä, ö, ü, or ß. After all that time and effort, telling a whole bunch of friends she might be coming, it comes to exactly nothing and costs me $200 to cancel her ticket. The bonus was this morning's e-mail, which showed up 5 minutes after I went to bed, so I couldn't even immediately address it:
so ich hatte heute ganz spontan 10 minuten etwa zeit ins netz zu gehen, da dachte ich, schreibe dir mal fix.
auf gestern abend bezogen, wenn dein kopf aber nur für eine frau belegt ist, ist das nicht gut, wenn die frau nur freundschaft möchte. damit wirst du doch nicht glücklich.
deshalb wäre es gut, denn kopf frei zu bekommen
so schönen tag dir noch.
bis demnächst
liebe grüße kess
Nach ihrer Anmerkung im Leipzig daß ich nicht anständig war, war ich zuviel anständig. Jetzt kann ich nur warten und hoffen. Ritterlich Liebe ist immer tragisch, so zweifele ich daß dieses sich heraus für mir gut dreht ...