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For the win
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Happy Thoughts -- Perfect... 1) Had a German guy (a German! For those of you who don't know, these are the most useless-when-it-comes-to-flirting/socially-inept/clueless race of men on the PLANET, and I've been to a lot of countries) stop me on the street to ask me out for coffee. And it was on a day when I felt gross and…
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And I have no idea. But if I can work it in, I'm on it!
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Thanks for the ideas! Apparently song lyrics are a rich source for this ;-) I actually have a list of words that my (German) students have made up while speaking English..."scientifical" would fit right in (along with "plug out", "applicate", and "experimentate")...
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Ooh, thanks! I didn't even think of using song lyrics as well, but since I'm using poetry, that would make sense...
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Ha! There is someone else in the world with this issue besides me! If one is ever lost for a topic of conversation with my co-workers, all he/she has to do is mention that I don't like fruit or fruity things. Keeps them entertained for hours...
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Ha, we're already there -- Southwestern Egg Rolls, anyone? Buffalo Chicken Wontons? (Please note: Southwestern Egg Rolls from Cityside Grill in Boston are one of my favorite foods ever, so I am absolutely not knocking this!) I wrote a term paper on this back in college...younger generations are developing more (ethnically,…
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My parents' house tends to be the opposite...neither of my parents is morbidly obese, but they are both overweight (as am I, surprise surprise) and 80% of the issue is portion control. There is ALWAYS food around, and lots of it (when we don't go out to eat, which my dad LOVES doing when the kids are there to visit), and…
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Best answer. I love runs/mountain biking the day after an evening of pizza/candy/beer...all that sugar in my system makes it possible to kick cheeks and set a few PRs.
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Whoa there, Judgy McJudgertons. Some people have to motivate themselves to run at all...if they're doing it, what do you care where? And no, I don't think someone doing three miles on a treadmill is the same as a marathon runner...but someone doing three miles outside isn't the same either. Are both feet off the supporting…
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Not park per se, but I have definitely had the slo-mo fall to one side on my bike a couple of times since I got clip-in shoes...you can picture me stopping on the trail in the woods (for hikers to pass, cause I missed a turn-off -- there have been a couple of incidents), tugging frantically at my foot to try to un-clip,…
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You can only hold dual US citizenship if you were born with it, i.e. one parent has a different citizenship. If you accept citizenship from another country as an adult, you typically have to renounce your US citizenship. At least that's what they told me when I looked into getting German citizenship...
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American here living in Germany for...almost 8 years now, I have just realized...sweetmotherofmonkeymilk!! Among other pasttimes, I teach applied and comparative linguistics...Finnish is a CRAZY complicated language, so no worries on not being fluent ;-) I have a colleague here who's been married to a Finnish woman for…
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alcohol free beer. Has all of the electrolytes/good stuff of any sports drink on the market, has roughly 50 cals per bottle (so waaaaaay less than most sports drinks), and tends to be all-natural (okay, well, here in Germany it is, anyway -- largely cause it's against the law to put crap into it). Favorite tip of most of…
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Guys with grease on their hands/under their fingernails (what can I say, I'm an engineer)...perhaps related to that, well-fitting work clothes (****ie's-type pants, blaumann, etc.) that have actually been worked in the smell of sweat (clean sweat, like you get after a bike ride or something -- NOT the…
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madly in love...with about half the posters...
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Oh yeah, and that I was going to marry Nightcrawler from the X-Men. That one actually hung on for a while into my semi-adult years...might explain why I moved to Germany, too...
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My parents used to tell me that the reason my Dad got to leave church early on Easter morning was so he could "unlock the door to let the Easter Bunny in". I threw a fit every year about why my dad was so freaking special that he got to hang out with Easter Bunny and why I couldn't meet him too... (only now in typing this…
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random, but: getting trapped in an underground parking garage (I put this one down to growing up in SF with earthquakes and that janky old Union Square garage...) monkeys. Didn't even know I HAD this until I went to Tanzania and started to freak the f*** out when we were waiting outside the car and the monkeys in the area…
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I've been doing Krav Maga for about 3 years (my trainer has a fit when someone calls it a "martial art", but we get all types of other martial arts guys at our seminars...and I second all the women who have dropped some dude who thought they were weak), but I'd love to try out Brazilian jujitsu. Don't think there's a…
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oh, snap. bump
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Have a specialist check your thyroid. My mom has a similar problem, and for YEARS her tests came back normal and the dotors told her she was nuts because they were checking for irregularities in...can't remember exactly what. Finally one guy got smart and checked her level of antibodies, and hey, what do you know, they…
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Wow. Totally awesome idea. When I took a flight with one of my best friends who is TERRIFIED of flying, I had some of those find-the-hidden-pictures things...we raced to see who could find them all faster during take-off and landing to distract her. Sounds a bit lame, I know, but she told me it really helped and gave her…
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There's nothing scarier than trying to change something that makes up part of your identity...it sounds like you've been identfying yourself with being a "big girl" for most of your life, and changing that means giving up part of who you are. And yeah, that's scary as all get-out. However, you are so much more than just…
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1) I can't find words to express the amazingness. Plus: Wow, you people are hot when you stand up straight. Totally trying that trick out next time I'm subtly hitting on a hot guy at the bar. 2) This thread is responsible for me admitting to my workmates that I'm MFP (which has been very hush-hush until now...) -- 'cause…
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My standard answer to this (and I get asked this ALL THE TIME, for reasons that are unclear to me): "Because I'm incapable of having a functional relationship." Or, in German (since I live abroad) "I am relationship-incabable [beziehungsunfähig]." Oddly enough, my friends don't seem to believe me and keep trying to set me…
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Go for it. Even if it takes longer than you think, you won't regret the time you put in to prepare. I made a decision two years ago at Easter that I was going to do the Easter 10k last year...didn't start training until January (Easter was at the end of March), so that sucked, but that feeling of accomplishment was worth…
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Thank goodness for EddieHaskell9; I was afraid that no one was going to mention ****ing, Austria. (Apparently the town's main feature is its signs, which people either a) take photos in front of, or b) steal.)
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I keep putting this info on my website in hopes my students will care...so far no luck there, but hey, maybe someone here will. Currently reading: Yaman Tilki by Road Dahl (translated by Gönül Çapan -- that's Fantastic Mr. Fox in English, by the way, and my favorite Dahl book, possibly next to the The BFG) The Last Three…
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Son sözün hala rüyalarımda. Kalbım yorgun artık, dayanamam. ( Your last words are still in my dreams. My heart is tired now, I can't take it.) Yalın, "Gelme" (Don't come [back]) Yup, I'm a little obsessed with random Turkish pop songs...but what can I say, as far as beatiful goes, I feel they've got it locked up.
