Everything’s back to normal! Well, not exactly, but the site has moved to a shiny new server, so yay. The not-quite-normal part is that I had two of my wisdom teeth removed on Friday, and can now barely function. (Today is my fifth day of eating nothing but semi-liquid mush. I want pizza more than [...]

He’s behind you! No, wait. Ah. Damn. I thought it was a man made of nipples, but of course it’s not. What a stupid idea. I don’t know how I could think such a thing. It’s clearly a rabbit made of cactuses. If you’ve been tearing at your hair, flogging your back, or otherwise behaving [...]

It’s always a little strange to come back from Greece, though nowhere near as strange as going there in the first place. This time my usual feelings of displacement when returning to Germany were somewhat overshadowed by the odd experience of coming out of the airplane almost deaf (having a cold and flying is a [...]

So, yeah, I”m totally sick. I’ve been looking forward to being back home for ages and now I’m spending half my time coughing up slime and the other half just coughing. And the food is really great, but I have no sense of taste. Bah. I did manage to get quite a bit done – [...]

We’re in Greece, and alive. Unfortunately I can’t remember half  my passwords, and can only post updates from the internet cafe, so I currently cannot say thank you for many of the kind birthday wishes that were sent my way. I will do so when we’re back in Germany! Work is going splendidly, the weather [...]

Less than a week before going to Greece for my birthday, I have an infected wisdom tooth. And the nerve inside the tooth is infected as well. I’ve just spent an entire evening having holes drilled into me, but it hurt so much they couldn’t even kill the nerve endings. If they take out the [...]

“Absolutely thrilling” is what Condoleeza Rice thinks what Barack Obama’s achievement of having had Osama bin Laden murdered is. Now, don’t get me wrong: Osama bin Laden was a criminal. He deserved to be arrested and tried for crimes against humanity. He deserved to rot in prison for the rest of his life for the [...]