Virgilthepagan

What? I'm here again? Rubbish, I'm never this productive. Oh wait, technically my brain is calling this procrastinating. After all, I don't really have to worry about my open suitcase, lack of a ticket, or a million other oddities if I'm doing that updating thing right? Much less any of the emotional side of these things. That's what the beer's for. Well if I'm going to do this, I'm going to do it right, let's move onto Croatia. Croatia: Notice how much time I spent back in that last entry focusing mostly on the everyday goingson in Serbia? Well I hope that adds as a little bit of balance for what starts here. After all, who I met were mostly college age students, maybe a few years older than me, but never by enough to have ... read more

Oh dear god. You know that feeling when you return refreshed and relaxed from a nice long vacation, only to come back to an inbox thirty feet high and a shrill tremulous voice telling you how much needs doing? Well that's kind of where we're at right now. Fortunately, most of the stuff in question is this kind, the kind of mental bookkeeping that ensures when my memory turns to pinkish goo I'll have something to remind me of what I did and where (at least most of it). Course part of it's also jobs, sorting out my social life and class schedules, figuring out what I want to do with my life, and possibly distilling an elixer of eternal life if there's time leftover. Still, the trip was great fun. (Un)fortunately, Jerry Sheridan (our fearless ... read more

Well it's something like 10 PM, and I'm hard at work trying to avoid writing a research paper that really needs starting. Still, when something's a week a way, it is so, very, hard to care. Ah well, I'm sure I'll think of some way to make the-company-which-must-not-be-named exciting. Let's back up a bit though shall we? Bulgaria for a start really was awesome, Romania maybe just a tad less so, but we'll get there. The trip was done with three others, a first for me, Robbie, Aubrey, and my old roomate Matus. For Bulgaria I think I can say this. Welcome to Eastern Europe: As Matus occasionally commented, Bulgaria resembled more of central Europe ten years ago, it’s just a little further east (duh). Orthodox churches dot the area, though with not as much frequency ... read more

Well I’m sitting at my office, counting down the last fifteen minutes until I can technically leave, so this seems like as good a time as any. Anyways, hello there! I know it’s been a little over two weeks since I last posted, and a reasonable amount has happened since then, so I guess I’ll work my way back through the whole bit. Sadly, or happily depending on one’s point of view (mine) I am actually becoming too busy to keep up with the pace of things. Frankly that’s very nice in its own bizarre way. Let’s see, last time I posted about my (mis)adventures, it was from the series of wanderings our tour sent us on throughout all of Belgium, or at least the half with interesting things in it (read: not the French part). ... read more

Well I suspect this is the last quiet period I've got in front of me for a very long time, so I guess that means it's time for an update! I'm fairly certain that apathy's going to keep me from actually finishing this while I'm being lazy in Germany, so for location's sake let's pretend I'm posting this from Belgium. Why am I back in Germany you ask? Well I can officially say I've resolved my long standing visa situation with the Belgian government. And there was much rejoicing. Was it entirely satisfactory? Well no, the visa covers a very truncated period of time, and I'd sort of hoped to dick around in Europe on the Belgian government's permission slip for a little bit longer than May. Still, things like that have never stopped me before! ... read more