... sorta, because I have a new job: - I'll be starting in the little agency (Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce sized, not Sterling Cooper sized) where my old, old friend japanologist is a partner in September (officially and salaried-ly), but will do jobs for them before, which is very doable, as I only work part-time at my present slavery ( Read more... )

OMG we at so much food!

I did Thanksgiving again, with wiebke and cracicotus and brickling. Now we are having pumpkin pie and watching 'Krabat'.-

Theoretically, anybody who wants to be vaccinated, can be.

But: the panic spread on the TV news has led to such a run on all the GPs etc. that do it (hospitals and central health authorities don't!), one can't come by it at the moment ( Read more... )

Seems that at the moment there is so little happening here (with everybody still gone for holidays), the newspapers have SERIOUS problems filling their pages.

Headline in the provincial newspaper some old guy was reading on the train when I went to work:

"Fish Attack At Bathing Lake! Little Boy's Toe Bitten!"Follows a colour picture of some ugly ( Read more... )

Remember the rabid dead man who was alive, yesterday? I managed to get hold of the newspaper in question, and the front page article in its entirety reads as follows:

General Hospital, Großhadern:
Man Who Died From Rabies Is Alive
Incredible Misinformation! Doctors Quarrel About Diagnosis

(Munich) On Thursday last week, he had been declared dead ( Read more... )

Not really, unless one liked their work. When Douglas Adams died, I really grieved - for all the fascinating things he would now never write. I even did my book column on Areion as an obituary for Douglas Adams the next week.

Nevertheless I found it strange to hear today that Michael Kamen had died, as I had seen him present the "When Love ( Read more... )