This Is The Thread Where We Have An Announcement To Make...

[Bman]

I'm going to need some good vibes tomorrow. If all goes well I'll let you know why o_o

[lukkucairi]

^ you got it

[brightpearl]

^^you got it got it


PS Can I have yours in return? :o

[Bman]

My senior recital was a battle to get through, but I'm pretty sure all the vibes came through, since I didn't burst in to flame, which I was on my way toward.

Thanks!

Lukku and pearly get a lifetime supply

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

I am sick as a dog and going to Lithuania for two weeeeeeks

[lukkucairi]

My senior recital was a battle to get through, but I'm pretty sure all the vibes came through, since I didn't burst in to flame, which I was on my way toward.

Thanks!

Lukku and pearly get a lifetime supply

:D

I am sick as a dog and going to Lithuania for two weeeeeeks

:(
feel better soon!

[Brynn]

The house is presentable, and I've baked a cake.

[Coffee]

Upgraded to a Smartphone from a USBaircard+crappy phone.

It does everything, including tethering to my laptop as a mobile hot spot.
I probably shouldn't "review" it so soon...but dayum...it is purty sweet.

Samsung Epic-4G Galaxy S

http://techpatio.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/samsung_epic_4g_front_qwerty_keyboard.jpg

o/ waves to my new buddys Linda and Kim \o

[lukkucairi]

me and my lights are gonna be on morning TV tomorrow :eek:

[MoJoRiSin]

You are right Coffee
a washing
Venus does not need

[brightpearl]

Let us know how it goes, Lulu! I'm very proud of you.:)

[MoJoRiSin]

Lukku ! please forgive me i posted ^^ that message in the wrong thread ... but now that i look at it twice i sort of like it where it is :) please record yourself adn share with us!
This is so very awesome : )

[lukkucairi]

chipping away at my 15 minutes of fame, 10 seconds at a time :p

[Frieda]

i HAT my job!

[Frieda]

I HAT my job even more than i HATTED it last time!

[Frieda]

i HAT my job so much i have a herniated disc in my neck!

[Frieda]

i HAT psychosomatic shit right before a vacation!

[Frieda]

i HAT this neck collar!

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

There's a new cat out of the bag (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYlD0KXujAk&feature=player_embedded)!

[lukkucairi]

My father's life was a tragedy. I put his ashes at the end of the spiral jetty early this spring, and the lake has risen and taken them now.

[brightpearl]

It's National Pink Day over here.
http://wtfoodge.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/pinkgundam3.jpg

Maybe I should dress up.

[Brynn]

That is an excellent robot.

[brightpearl]

I just ate a waffle with peach pie and chocolate chip ice cream on it.

[Stephi_B]

i haz uni job :) :) :D

not really research, but teaching (software, programming, how to write a thesis/make a poster/do a presentation), study (and life ;)) consulting, networking and public relations. and for tech/sci/math-chicks only :p

it's a 6-month contract, but a prolongation is possible (for another 6 months and for another 6 months - if the project works, there will be funds - hopefully :))

today was my first day :) it rocked :)

and i had lunch on the roof of mathematics :D

[Frieda]

^ :):) did you have pi for lunch? :p

[Stephi_B]

^ :):) did you have pi for lunch? :p

no, there wasnie any pure pi left :( but i checked: the plate on which my tortellini were served had a circumference of too pi R and the area was delicious :)

however, i had malt beer which might become my new (old - i digged it as a child) thing to drink for lunch and elsewhen :)

[brightpearl]

I passed my board exam thingie! :)

And also I haven't gotten around to mentioning that I got remarried last year.

And also I am pregnant.
:o

:)

[zero]

http://www.zefrank.com/bulletin_new/images/icons/icon14.gifhttp://www.zefrank.com/bulletin_new/images/icons/icon14.gifhttp://www.zefrank.com/bulletin_new/images/icons/icon14.gifhttp://www.zefrank.com/bulletin_new/images/icons/icon14.gifhttp://www.zefrank.com/bulletin_new/images/icons/icon14.gif ^ ME TOO!!!


:D :D :D :D :D

[brightpearl]

:eek:
Mr. Ezra, please clarify that last statement lest you impugn my character (inadvertently, I'm sure) by implying that you have a paternity claim in my gestational activities.

http://littlebabylump.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/bun-in-the-oven.jpg

[Frieda]

^^^:):):)

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

zero is pregnant!

[Hyakujo's Fox]

*insert nerdy joke about multiplication*

[Coffee]

1. Yay!
2. Yawn, old news.
3. Huge grats!!!

[lukkucairi]

Mum is sick again. She is having a really good time with it and is quite cheerful planning for her death. While I am appreciative that she wants me to come visit so she can mark the things I'll want to inherit and get rid of the rest over the next couple of months, it's BEYOND weird and let's just say I'm having some trouble believing that she actually will be dead by Christmas, as she is planning to be.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

^ och, I'm so sorry, lukku! it's so hard...

but I admire your Mum's uplifted head against what she feels is approaching

[brightpearl]

My grandmother planned her death several years before she actually died. When she did get sick quite a while later, it gave her a lot of comfort, I think, to know that my mom and I wouldn't have to arrange anything and that all her things were going where she wanted them to go. She wasn't cheerful about dying, exactly, but she was at peace with it and warned me that it would happen soon. I think people can feel it, sometimes.

If she will let you say it, maybe it would help if you express to her when you get there that you are sad about losing her and don't want her to go yet. Acknowledge the elephant so you can send it in another room, sort of, and get on with helping your mom with what she wants to do.

The course of cancer is notoriously difficult to predict, so you're right to be skeptical. :)

[lukkucairi]

Thanks guys -

Right now it's more weird than anything else. She SO wants to go, and I am, frankly, ready for her to go. Whether or not she will go any time soon...who knows?

Philosophically, I've just gotten to this place where it's so much easier to want for her what she wants for herself. It's kind of spread out into the rest of my life. Not like I'm passive, but I feel this urge to get out of the way of things. It could be years before she kicks off, or it could be two weeks from now. The uncertainty is a really hard lesson :(

[Frieda]

^:( *hugs*

i would like to announce that because of lack of 24-hours/week IT-jobs during recovery of my neck hernia they have now moved me to recruitment. and honestly, i am surprised to say i actually like it.

[Frieda]

Boo for ovarian cystststst!

[Brynn]

^ sorry Lukkuu and Frieda. No fun.

More no fun. I just got laid off. Again.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

^&^^ oh no! :( I wish you didn't have to go through this.

[Frieda]

yay for ovarian cystststst rupturing during the ultrasound examination!

that was interesting. now i hope it stays gone.

[Brynn]

WOW! That is action-packed! But it must have hurt....

[lukkucairi]

I'm in the airport on the way *back* from visiting Mum - she is better than she was sounding on the phone :p

Getting used to this "oh I'm about to die whoops no I feel fine" stuff is a difficult lesson. She's still quite ill, coughing all the time, tumors, advancing cancer etc - not getting better, just some days she FEELS like she's dying and some days it seems rather more theoretical. I suspect that she was pleased to see me, so she felt better while I was with her.

Thanks for being here on this thread and absorbing some of the excess difficult energy I need to dump off once in a while. Sometimes I'm not sure what to do with myself, and with it, and with whatnot. Everything else seems to be going along OK - more scans soon, results in September, and my husband and I will come back and visit her in late October. And she'll tell me *again* where the deed to the apartment is, and where she's put the extra bits for the fire doors, and not to sell her place too cheaply to the old biddy who lives upstairs :rolleyes:

Frieda: owie! Glad the investigation turned out to be the treatment! And no more cystststs for you!

[Frieda]

speeding tickets suck big blue monkey balls! :mad: :mad:

[Jack Flanders]

damn, girl!!! Will your insurance go up? crappy FWC!!!!!!

[Frieda]

No, but my savings will go down.. i decided to stop speeding for a while. Too expensive!

[Coffee]

As a courier I learned that speeding only gets u where u are going a mere 2 minutes faster, at 10-25% reduced fuel mileage, and u arrive in a stressed out mood.
Save a couple bucks, your sanity, and spend a couple extra minutes relaxing on your way to wherever.

[Frieda]

^i've found that listening to reggae music helps with not speeding

else i find it's too annoying to drive among truck drivers, elderly and other idiots that keep overtaking each other with 1km/h difference. i get fed up and aggressive if i don't zoom past those people. and it saves me 10 minutes, not 2!

so i crank the radio and shout along with bob marley. :rolleyes:

[Frieda]

i FINALLY have managed to get a referral letter for the neurologist.

surprise suprise, i have an appointment for tomorrow at 10 already.. no time to be nervous! :eek: :eek:

[lukkucairi]

it's done!

[brightpearl]

^What is it? I've been curious ever since I saw your post about being covered in glue. :D

^^And Frieda, how did the dr go?

[lukkucairi]

^oh, just the dictionary game this time :o

the glue thing...I'll post a pic later on. it won't be done for AGES yet.

announcement: I am going to go and make my umpty-seventh pot of wheat paste glue :)

[Frieda]

^^ most likely herniated disc in my neck at C6 level, have an MRI wednesday next week to confirm the damage. will get the results somewhere in january.

meanwhile, i have been cooking myself some cannabis in beeswax to give it a rub against the pain and it works perfectly. because it's illegal when driving i'm going to make some hot pepper beeswax next week.

so to anyone that can get their hands on some pot for medicinal reasons (or not)-- don't smoke it, just give it a rub! :D

[xfox]

^ouch. Hope it's resolved.

A dear old friend has a new book just out, but I can't post a link at the moment. Evidence We are Descended from Chairs is the title.

[brightpearl]

Baby finally got his feet in his mouth. He's been trying for days.

[Frieda]

^i strongly recommend you to post some pictures if this event ;)

[brightpearl]

I have one, need to upload it. I'll send you a link when I get it on there....will also make the grandmas happy!

[brightpearl]

Freida...Finally got that pic of the baby with his foot in his mouth posted. It's on the link I sent quite a while back -- just let me know if you need it again.

It's pretty cute. :) My husband has been doing a good job of keeping the videos coming, so there are some of those on there now too.

[Brynn]

I need that too :-)

[Brynn]

*swoon*

[Brynn]

In other news about offspring, here's my youngest ("Pimples Glasses") spending all his money with his friends on food with which to stuff their faces.
Yes, it's a new episode of TeenagerMealTime, a blatant rip-off of Epic Mealtime.
So confused and proud :-)

<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/_uYo9mYyWj0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

[brightpearl]

*swoon*

Now with added bluebonnets!!
:D

Your boy is a chip off the block, I betcha.

[lukkucairi]

we bought a sauna!

[xfox]

I hope the lock is only on the inside. he he

[MoJoRiSin]

from this day forward
(for the next 90 days)
all my quotation debate
quotations
will be taken from one of two
obscure texts

1. the movie 3magic words
OR
2. the book:
The Gold of Troy
~ Robert Payne

the question is: do you believe me? :p

[brightpearl]

Act Like a T-Rex Day is coming up (http://www.collegehumor.com/video/3351376/happy-act-like-a-t-rex-day).

It's either tomorrow, or the 4th, or the first Friday in April, depending on whether you follow the Gregorian, Orthodox, or Pastafarian calendar I suppose.

[brightpearl]

I sort of like the idea that it might be on Good Friday this year. I have it on good authority that Jesus would approve.

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/128/414998399_4b1b06b1b8_z.jpg

[Bman]

I had other posts to make, but then a whole lot of never mind happened.

[Brynn]

^ :-)

[Odbe]

I found a chocolate easter bunny so cute that I felt bad about eating it.

[Brynn]

The turkey we ate was so delicious and flavorful yesterday that I felt bad that it's not common knowledge to brine a turkey beforehand to make it that way.

[Frieda]

I have a feeling i will be fired soon.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

the last of the mohicans, aka Houdini, my ancient pet gerbil died. i drowned my grief in a can of beer and ate a whole sausage. i feel sick now. too much food, but still i can't believe i won't hear his knock-knock-knocking on the glass covering of his tank any more. the sausage only made things worse. :(

[xfox]

^Love is sad to lose, as the soul ascends to gerbil heaven. I am sorry, YsaPur.

[Brynn]

So very sorry, YsaPur. :(
Fish, birds, gerbils, hamsters, mice - I finally had to put my own moratorium on adopting them at all due to their abbreviated "planned obsolescence."
It just hurts too much when they go.

[Frieda]

the last of the mohicans, aka Houdini, my ancient pet gerbil died. i drowned my grief in a can of beer and ate a whole sausage. i feel sick now. too much food, but still i can't believe i won't hear his knock-knock-knocking on the glass covering of his tank any more. the sausage only made things worse. :(

aw :( i'm sorry Ysa :(:( *hugs*

[Coffee]

Condolences on the loss of your wee one Ysa. :(

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

thank you all
really
you are kind

[Frieda]

i voted

[brightpearl]

^Good for you!

Yesterday Hillary Clinton (http://news.yahoo.com/secretary-clinton-delivers-powerful-religion-speech-middle-east-034054319--abc-news-politics.html) edged out Bob Dylan (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/12/bob-dylan-slavery_n_1876623.html) in the wisdom and compassion department. I understand what Bob was saying, and I've often thought it myself, sadly, but our girl Hillary inspires me to look to a brighter day. It was a nice surprise.

Of course, the neighbors with several enormous Romney/Chair 2012 signs in their yard haven't spoken to me since I put a tiny little Obama sticker on my car, so it might take a while to get there.

[Jack Flanders]

^ Don't hold your breath.

[brightpearl]

^You know, I was outside with the baby the other day, and he said "Hi!" when he saw her, so she couldn't resist I guess. She asked how he is, and I said, well, there's some medical stuff going on...and I explained everything about the food allergies and the persistent reflux and how it looks like we're going to have to do an endoscopy :( , and I think I sort of smiled sadly and threw up my hands. She said, "You feel guilty."

Oh! Yes. You understand.

And she told me the story of when her daughter was born almost 2 months early, which at the time was pretty much a death sentence, and to their very great surprise, she was still alive in a couple of hours, and then the next day, and the next, and she's gone on to have a pretty great life, but every time she gets a migraine or a cold they both think it's because she was premature and they go over all the things they maybe could have done differently to keep it from happening.

It was a great relief to be understood, and it was truly lovely to have it come from an unexpected direction.

They still have all the signs up, but they did move the chair out of the front yard, so that's nice. All the warm fuzzies didn't stop me from laughing like a drunk monkey at this exchange (http://www.mediaite.com/tv/obama-trashes-romney-for-not-understanding-military-we-have-these-things-called-aircraft-carriers/), either, so I guess we're even.
:)

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

^ oh... :(
I'm sorry about the reflux and endoscopy
and that you feel guilty :(

[brightpearl]

^Well, it is okay. He is a little on the small side for his age now, but not too small, and he is doing fine developmentally, walking and talking and all that. He likes music, but mixes up Wheels on the Bus and Old McDonald, so it comes out like "Eee-I Eee-I beep beep beep." :) Still one more medication to try for a couple of months before he needs the scarier interventions to see if he has a hiatal hernia or really severe ulceration.

I do feel guilty, but when I am being reasonable I know that we are addressing everything as best we can. And most of the other kids in the waiting rooms have much longer lists of problems. I worry, but it could probably be a lot worse.

Thanks for your worries. :o

[Frieda]

I did a noxx.

[brightpearl]

TIP is doing fine. :)
I figured, but I'm still relieved.

[brightpearl]

Wait, what the heck is a noxx? :confused:

[Coffee]

a "noxx" is the act of posting something in every thread on the first page of a thread section.

Made famous by our serial poster/old timer/absentee member "Noxx".

[Brynn]

I didn't know there was a term for that! I guess you learn something every day.
I think I've done that by accident a couple of times...

[Odbe]

I'm learning German! :D I'm loving it!
Some of my favourite words so far are Kleiderschrank, Österreich and Handy.

[Frieda]

Das ist wirklich toll Odbe! warum lernst du Deutsch?

[Odbe]

An der Universität :)

[xfox]

I've been holding out, until now. I have my own little beach house and when I retire in a few years I will move there. Ah, salt water and sand bars.

[Coffee]

^This announcement bears Coffee's highest rated stamp of approval, for a non-mobile salt water dwelling.

:)

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

^^That will be beautiful! Im happy for you. :)

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

and on similar note, here's a poem for Odbe to wrestle with...
I love it.


Ich habe Sehnsucht
nach einer Meeresbucht
mit Felsen und Strand
in einem fernen Land.
Dort möchte ich sitzen
in der Sonne schwitzen
und Sehnsucht haben
nach hungrigen Raben
auf kahlen Feldern,
nach verschneiten Wäldern
und eisigem Windeswehn.
Kann's selbst nicht verstehen.

Christine Nöstlinger: Sehnsucht

[xfox]

^^ thanks for your lovely affirmations!

[Odbe]

It was supposed to be die not der wasn't it...
Thanks Ysa, loved that poem, I knew a few words and stuck the rest into Google translate. Sehnsucht is a great word.
New favourite: gemütlich

[brightpearl]

Important Donut News (http://www.nbcnews.com/business/national-doughnut-day-means-freebies-big-business-6C10223431)

[brightpearl]

I think I am going to have to buy Macklemore's album.

[Frieda]

It is VERY hot.

[MoJoRiSin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gapCK5_rMuY

[Odbe]

Frieda - it's mildly chilly here. If we all travel lots and bring our weather with us will it all even out to a pleasant warmth? (Or maybe all the fuel used for the transport would just contribute to global warming)

[Frieda]

Mildly chilly sounds pretty awesome right now! It's still 29c in my apartment (which is about to be flooded by a thunderstorm because i am too lazy to get my arse out of bed in the middle of the night to close my balcony door)

[Frieda]

Ok i'm closing the damn door-- 29 mm/h!:eek:

[brightpearl]

http://www.madrid2020.es/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Mateo280x180.jpg

Mateo is unbelievably cute, and he needs a bone marrow transplant (http://marrowformathew.com/).

Donating is much easier on the donor than it used to be, and in the US, to get on the both the national and international registry, all you have to do is send in a cheek swab. You can get on the registry at Be the Match (http://bethematch.org/Join/Join_the_Registry.aspx). If you live elsewhere, just google "bone marrow registry" for your home country, and you should find something.

Even if you can't donate because of your medical history, Be the Match can use monetary donations (https://secure2.convio.net/marrow/site/Donation2?df_id=3940&3940.donation=form1) to cover the costs of the kits and testing.

As his father is so generously keen to remind everyone, Mateo is only one of many who need donors, or who will someday. I have a friend who actually got the call, and he tells me it really isn't bad to donate, and it didn't cost him anything. I'm on the registry now, and I hope you will be soon, too.

xo,
brightpearl

[Frieda]

We have a pertussis epidemic at the office.

[funkytuba]

Whoop it up!

[Frieda]

It's like a dog kennel here. We're all barking at each other..

whoop whoop!

[Jack Flanders]

I've been holding out, until now. I have my own little beach house and when I retire in a few years I will move there. Ah, salt water and sand bars.

Me too. I can't wait.

[Frieda]

QiGong is not for pvssies.

[brightpearl]

^:D Good on ya', though!

In other news, Krispy Kreme would be a good place for people watching today:
http://www.krispykreme.com/Upload/PirateDay2013_FoKK.jpg

[xfox]

Me too. I can't wait.

Congratulations! That's wonderful!

[Bman]

There is nothing cooler than the sound of an out of tune sitar.

[Frieda]

I am wearing a poncho.

thought i'd let you know.

[MoJoRiSin]

WHERE ??
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Where are you wearing a poncho Frieda dear ?

[Frieda]

I am wearing it over my shoulders, sitting on the couch, while working from home.

[MoJoRiSin]

i see

[Frieda]

And you? Where are you wearing yours? Hm?

[MoJoRiSin]

^I meditate on the musings of Samuel Lerman (http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-report-confirms-you-are-most-interesting-most,34857/)
:)

[Bman]

https://webchat.freenode.net

#fictionproject

[funkytuba]

https://webchat.freenode.net

#fictionproject

I'm there. No one else is.

I will stick around, though.

[Frieda]

Grey hairs. I found a few. And not just on my head. I'm only 33, ffs! :eek:

[MoJoRiSin]

^don't worry !

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

^ Yeah. :( Don't worry. :( There'll be more. :( Enjoy life while there's just a few of them. :(

[Bman]

So, do any of you monkeys live in Stockholm? I'm heading there for the first time. Soon. In other news, shit is nuts.

[brightpearl]

Sometimes the doctor does not know what in the holy eff he is talking about. Just keep that in mind.

[xfox]

I'll second that! Everything is secondary to one's health.

[Bman]

10,002 days old

[MoJoRiSin]

i am working on mine

[Frieda]

I have a cold from hell with an attitude

[Stephi_B]

I'm back :)

And I will soon live inside a trapezoid, which contains further trapezoids, on the other side of the city, but actually closer to my favourite folks & work - and it's a coop flat :)

[MoJoRiSin]

I am glad you are back Stephi_B :) !! It is always better to live near one's though favorite folks but for some reason i am worried you may be walking into a trap
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
On another note my daughter is moving to Berlin in June... maybe I could forward your email or facebook to her?

[Stephi_B]

No-no, it's alright, no traps, just trippy zoids :D But it will be tricky to align things built for 90° angles to all the none-90°-angles ;)

I'm no longer on Facebook, but I can PM you my email address :)

Flats are hard to come by (that's one of the reasons I joined the coop), flat shares are a lot easier (but often overprized, especially for people new to Berlin).

The young ones (I'm allowed to say so in the semibiblical age of 35 :cool:) are currently flocking in Neukölln, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg and somewhat Wedding/Moabit/Tiergarten as well as Lichtenberg/Treptow.

Kreuzberg is neat in parts (those not too close to my soon ex-district Friedrichshain :o), but very expensive, and Friedrichshain - I'm fleeing from there :eek:, imho not nice any longer, party mass tourism with all side effects; Prenzlauer Berg and Pankow are quite posh and pricey, Mitte full of tourists and very pricey)... I'd rather go for Schöneberg, Charlottenburg, Wilmersdorf, those parts of Steglitz close to the subway, Moabit/Tiergarten, or Treptow/Lichtenberg - somewhat depending on where she will be centered for work/uni, but if either a subway line (http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/image/view/2014/3/24/26941402,26509020,dmData,BVGplan.JPG.jpg) (all those with a U like U-Bahn) or Ringbahn S 41/42 (it goes only about every 10 minutes, but it goes fast - unlike other S-Bahn lines - and crosses all subway lines - oh, and in reality, not on the schematic plans - Ringbahn looks like a dog's head (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner_Ringbahn#/media/File:S-Bahn-Ring_Berlin.svg)) is close you reach things fast.

Edit: That's quite a good side to find flats (Wohnung) or flat shares (WG/Wohngemeinschaft) for rent (Miete) http://www.immonet.de/berlin/wohnung-mieten.html

The number of rooms (Zimmer) refers not to the number of bedrooms (like in the US, as far I know) but to all rooms with the exception of bathroom, kitchen and things like a small chamber/closet or an extra toilet (ah, well I'm coop spoilt now, I visited flats with up to three closets or two balconies - some of them irregular pentagons! - or well, an extra toilet).

If she stays only for a certain period of time (some months or up to 1 year or so) "Wohnen auf Zeit" may be an option, often such flats are already furnitured (which is not the standard! usually there's only a gas oven and a sink in the kitchen - and sometimes you can take things the previous tenant leaves behind, for free or for some amount of money if it's still of considerable worth, again I would take care to not be tricked into paying too much --> google what a new thing like that would locally cost).

Edit2: Gotta get going again, now that the most favourite one has brought me the cardboard boxes and tended my nerves somewhat ;)

[MoJoRiSin]

WOW! thank you so much for your thoughtful response.
I guess I should have mentioned her boyfriend is there already
but that she knows absolutely no one in Germany otherwise
I will figure out where he lives and PM you ....
Hope your own move is coming along smoothly
xo L, Mo

[Stephi_B]

Ah, with a boyfriend already here it's simpler in any case :)

Is he German or already here for some time?

Something like a language learning tandem might be a good chance to get to know locals, I know a lot of foreign students who did that to meet new people and learn/improve the language in a fun way :)

Plus there is a huge English-speaking expat community in Berlin, getting into that is even easier (Craigslist etc.) probably.

Though in the more "neighbourly" (that is not in the touristic centres where there are more Air B'n'Bers than regular tenants) areas you can mix up with all sorts of people quite easily as you start meeting the same people in your immediate surrounding (Kiez) again and again ;) (folks are married with their Kiez :D, the more peculiar my trans-city move, but I'm indeed done and fed up now and looking forward to the new place :))

[MoJoRiSin]

language learning tandem is a great thing to know about thank you Stephi_B!!
:) have a beautiful rest of the eve

[Stephi_B]

Here's a list containing tandem partner searches ("sucht Sprache") + offers ("bietet Sprache") of the last 4 weeks (after that the entries are deleted) where folks can find and contact each other for free via email:

http://www.skb.tu-berlin.de/contao/index.php/de/tandem/articles/tandem.html

[Large Marge]

Please delete my account from this forum. I can find no way to do it myself, as someone has denied me access to my own account and private messages. Thanks.

[Frieda]

I'll give it a shot as soon as i can remember the password of the email address that the administrator password reset emails are sent to.

[Large Marge]

Thanks, Frieda. I was able to gain access to my account again (it was an email address issue), but I still can't figure out how to delete my account.

[MoJoRiSin]

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^your account is your account ?

[Frieda]

i would like to announce that it took me 2 hours to read this entire thread and that it is now 4:32 am.

[Frieda]

I performed in the theatre. I should have done this so much earlier!

[brightpearl]

Awesome! What was the play?

[Frieda]

It was called "Zonde", which means sin. We made the scenes ourselves with a director and a writer. It was about the 7 sins. Physical theatre so hardly any lines to memorize! I could send you a dropbox link if you have an hour to spare somewhere.

[brightpearl]

Hahaha, maybe if it's in English!

[brightpearl]

I take full responsibility and apologize unreservedly.
Hurricane Beryl (http://time.com/5331664/hurricane-beryl-path-track/)

[brightpearl]

I accidentally interviewed for my dream job and they asked me to make an offer. I asked for a whole lot of money. I would have to leave a job I really like hoping to love this one. Hyperventilating slightly.

[Frieda]

Woo hoo!

[brightpearl]

They ponied up nearly the $ I asked, so I took it. It's scary! But I hope I will love it.

[Frieda]

I hope so too! What's the job, if I may ask?

[lukkucairi]

Um.

[Peregrine]

Lukku! How ya been?

[funkytuba]

priceyfatprude died yesterday. RIP Sweet Peef!

[Bman]

RIP. Not what I wanted to come back to.

Still thinking of this board in the weird, distant future.

[Frieda]

priceyfatprude died yesterday. RIP Sweet Peef!

i didn't see this until today. i miss her. :(