У нас снова снег, дико хочется спать, а завтра нужно на работу и собирать чемодан. Чтобы в среду рано-рано утром отправиться в аэропорт ( Read more... )

У меня очередной приступ острого лузерства. Но что не типично, при этом в голову лезут стихи на итальянском. На этом языке я до сих пор еще стихов никогда не писала ( Read more... )

Хотя, у меня пожалуй уже шуршит громко и едет быстро. Вчера мозг испытал короткое замыкание на лингвистической почве, чего со мной уже давненько не случалось. Языковой барьер ограничивающий мое эффективное использование нескольких языков одновременно тремя преодолеть так и не удалось... Вчера позвонили из Флориды, попросили что мол надо ( Read more... )

Nothing like being in Finland to make me realize I do, in fact, understand Swedish. Well, by contrast to Finnish any Germanic language (let alone Romance or Slavic) seems comprehensible. But I do like the sound of Finnish... heroically resisted dropping 30 euros on Finnish grammar yesterday (I am a freak who likes grammar books more than ( Read more... )

1. Interesting article on Medscape today - that moderate exercise such as walking is actually better for metabolic syndrome than more intense exercise if done for the same length of time. Makes sense - high-intensity uses up glucose, low-intensity mops up triglycerides from bloodstream ( Read more... )

A couple weeks worth of random thoughts and observations ( Read more... )

ENGLISH- of course, things couldn't run smoothly the first day - my login didn't work so first 45 minutes of my day were spent frantically searching for someone to update my information in the system while the work kept piling on ( Read more... )

ENGLISH Discovered an appliance store and bought the vacuum cleaner. Now I have everything I need for independent living. I keep reminding myself not to think "this is where I have to live for a year" but "this is where I will live for a year". Among other good news, I have found an Italian pastry shop - and it's breathtaking. Over a hundred ( Read more... )

On Friday I went to Linderhof and Neuschwanstein with a bus tour. While I am not normally a fan of bus tours and tourist groups, I thought it would be a good idea because going with the trains on my own I wouldn't make it. Tours are pitifully too short to properly appreciate the castles, but they are very beautiful. Linderhof park, that we didn' ( Read more... )

I am not dead yet, though I have a feeling my feet would prefer I were. My feet HURT ( Read more... )