The Routine

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No pictures this time. Sorry.

I wanted to spell out my typical day or week.

I get up anywhere between 8 and 10, watch the Brandenburg tv channel or maybe Eurosport, and write a quick paragraph or two in my thesis. The shower works and I use it. Eurosport was awesome during the Olympics...at least 12 hours a day of live coverage.

I eat dark bread, farm-fresh yogurt, muesli-cereal, garlic salami, cheese, and black tea. Pretty simple and healthy. Not much fruit in the diet here...only apples seem readily available in wintertime.

If it's one of the three days a week (or so) I go to Adlershof or Schoenefeld, I try to hit the road before noon. It takes up to an hour to get there, and sometimes three connections on mass transit are required. Once there, I check email and eat and do my reserach or whatnot. When it gets dark I head back home in time for supper.

If it's like today, when I head "downtown", I take the M4 tram and walk around from there. Not too far at all.

If it's a day I decreed when I would seriously work on my thesis, I stay indoors most of the day. Because I can! One day I never spoke... On a good day I can pump out a lot of pages, but I spend just as much time trying to organize the dern thing.

At supper time, I might go out in the neighborhood. More often than not I grab a doener-kebab from the Turkish place. My neighborhood has an Indian, a Paki, a Porto, a Frog, an Italian, an "American", and a bunch of German restaurants. Plus about four Turkish joints. Food and beer are inexpensive; other beverages are expensive.

After supper, I might head out to meet friends. When I first came here I went out in der Mitte, but now I mostly hang out in my neighborhood. It's cold. Still. Exciting nightlife: went to a "club show" put on by the band fronted by the waitress at the French restaurant. went to the "The New World" at the Berlin film festival, which was a pretty big deal.

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Comments

[Deine Mutter]

Danke!
We are glad to know your routine. Now we can picture you in the blue flat putting muesli on your yoghurt! The Iditarod (sp) is going on now, I think, in case that sports staion might cover it. RE: food--Try canned peaches, etc. KYNC!