DresdenDoll

so far:
MadMen's Joan
Lily Allen

but I'd most love to dress up as Amanda



hmmm?

halloween

how do i get away w/ short, brown hair?
hmmm?

i eat dust.

woke u at 4, spent the day outside, running up and down in the plant (i even rode a bike), inhaled and ate dust and all the lovely things we burn (animal meal, anyone?), drove back, and am happily sedated in my bed with no plans for tomorrow (yay) and some plans for monday (yay!yay!).





i do learn a lot, but this is sucking the life out of me.

styria bound

best things about my drive today:

PDJames (Eng), AboutABoy (Deu) and some old ToriAmos and Rufus does Judy!

tuesday.

this morning i woke up at 6:30 and ran 5km. needless to say i'm dead tired.

apart from that, i accomplished nothing.

Niels+Coco

i am one lousy tour guide.

we spent most of saturday shopping for food (?) and later walking aimlessly through the 20th district, where there's really nothing to see and then we circled round neubau (aimlessly) and at some point called it a day. sunday was grey and horrible but we embraced the rain and spent hours reading, eating and having teas and coffees in numerous coffeplaces




followed by a visit to MAK for the designfair where I ran into CocoLores, who are friends to lovely Tanja who did most of my jewelry (i digress) and WienMuseum. WienMuseum hosts an interesting overview of austrian designers 2000-2010 and we liked it much. apart from that most of their guards suck big time. rude and unfriendly and they kept running after me and asking to see my ticket.
i looked decent i swear.




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in more mundane news, i drove my boss' car today and managed to avoid crashing into a big mean truck. not my fault. entirely not my fault. we were all lucky. in the end the driver regained control of the vehicle, and i was happy i kept my distance.
reverse parking was tad more difficult.
in the end stephanie saved the day.

i would add sth but i dont wanna jinx it :)

work got complicated. i will take up a 6 month mission and continue doing my project, parallel. goodbye private life.

girlsbike ohyeah

carbs are the new black

still haven't had any coffee (day 6) but am blissfully full. carbs galore! started off with today's lunch (potatoes! couscous!) and ended up with some french chocolate and maroons (apparently there're french everywhere and they all like me and bring me chocolate and open the doors for me and you know do frenchy type of things. apart from well one.)
anyway my stew was kind of dry, but my lunch companion was lovely! we gotta do it again.
afternoon was pretty eventful, and things at work might get very very complicated soon, and i might need to manage two countries, career-wise superb, private life wise shite. but really really shite. not sure how to get out of it. actually i cannot get out of it at all. let's see.

i drive a big mean car on monday which ain't mine, but my boss' and i am not yet nervous about it.
niels is here tomorrow and while he ain't my first house guest, he's def the first one from frankfurt. *excited*
oh, and my next door neighbour is a call girl, belle du jour (billie piper) kind.

i love this tattoo

sick of marinated tofu at 6 : 30 am

i bought apples! for breakfast! oh joy! otherwise a fuck of a week (again) and still no coffee. blargh

extracurricular

went to another expat get-together, this time however with the purpose of speaking/ practising German. was yet again on two minds whether to go or not (twas cold, and i'm grumpy and decaffeinated) but i did and it was ....well .....interesting. nice bunch of people, but different levels so all in all a big mess. i had one chamomile tea for crying out loud! they had beer and food and beer! i cycled back and nibbled on my cheddar.
today was photo club and my photo ranked well, although not as good as last time.
no other news.
i have a new haircut, but i think that the lady who did my hair hates me. but maybe she's just austrian. it's a bit on the bolshy side. short.

niels should be here friday night, in his honour i plan to gorge on CARBS. donotcare.


PS French speak adorable German.
(French in general, not my the French)

sluggish.

not only i'm still sick, but
i've decided to go on a diet,
one of those diets that ain't really a diet cuz one seems to eat all the time.



the only downside being no coffee.
no tea
just decaf
i feel as if my head's a radio

friday afternoon

pretty pleased!
but sick as a dog

postoffice CHECK library CHECK (and paid only 50% of the fine) new phone CHECK
and i'm home and it's friday and i got two new audio books (about a boy in german and pd james in english) and i'm about to change into my pj and eat garlic and get better.

can't wait to come home tonight and sulk and do nothing.

need sleep

i should write a proper entry because there have been some blog worthy moments but i seem too tired to do that. in short, very short i met kerry, and had fun, and it was lovely, then came the weekend and we had a sleepy museum night but it was fun and i liked pretty much the technical museum and jewish museum and it was a windy day but sooo nice having you around and then we had sushi and sushi was good. sunday evening drove down to styria and it was fun and million thanks to kathy for keeping it under 120 kmph and takin me all the way to the hotel where i found out they did not have a room for me. so i had to drive to another place. another place had lousy breakfast. but on monday we went to slovenia, dejan and myself and i stocked up on cedevita, mlinci, ajvar, cokolesnik and i even had JOGURT. the good liquidy kind. tuesday got progressively worse. woke up at ungoodly hour 4 45. drove to the plant. walked all day in crazy uncomfy shoes had elevenses with the workers (which is very very hilarious but at the same time reassuringly NICE) and then at 2 i headed back home.





only i got home at 9 instead of planned 3 pm. a disaster of a day. drove pretty fast and even went to the gas station (!) though got tad panicky and called mile to ask what do i do when it's foggy. mile saved the day and i pulled through. took me 3 h to reach vienna but then i got every wrong turn and every wrong exit and then suddenly i was driving in the city and it rained and ppl were going home from work and it just got so difficult and i had no idea where i were and the sat nav got stupid and then i found no parking spot and when i found one i couldn't park. but i did eventually. only then it was already 8 30 and i walked home in the rain.
now for the nice thing:
i got home and the flat smelled lovely and there was pie and my mirror was up and i felt just really humbled and speechless and grateful. that was one of the nicest things that has happened lately.

so i curled in my bed and then the phone rang and i spent 3 hours on the phone and by the end of it it was 2 am and i was dead.
and if it weren't for kerry i'd head home straight from work and feel sorry for myself, but instead we went to that poncy expat event and had a nice chat with some spanish ladies and two very very random guys. girls rule! so it appears. so now am home, fed, craving a beer, but adamant that i will answer no phone and go to sleep and wake up tomorrow and go on a diet.

had a feck of a day, but suddenly feeling very humbled and just in awe. that was so kind, so so kind and simply nice. i swoon.