Next week is going to be a pretty exciting week. The Oscars are Sunday night, not sure I’m going to stay up for them. Monday morning we have our super duper second trimester ultrasound at St. Hedwig’s hospital where we will most likely find out the sex of the baby. I will try to post something afterwards, but you may have to wait a week because Monday afternoon we leave for Göttingen. I have all day Tuesday on my own in the city while Rainer attends meetings, so if you’re going to be there too and want to meet up, email me.
Tuesday night we will be arriving in Berlin (and Rainer will be turning 41!). We’ll be staying in Berlin until Thursday evening (March 1), I have one day in the city alone and one with Rainer, I forget which day he has meetings on. Anyways, let me know if you want to meet up with me in Berlin. Maybe if there’s a bunch of folks we can have dinner on Wednesday night (Tony Roma’s in Potsdamer Platz anyone? I could go for some ribs).
Another thing going on is all of a sudden (in the last two months), I’ve been getting approached by companies who want to advertise on my blog. I certainly don’t consider my blog to be one of the more popular out there, I’m only getting about 150 hits a day at the moment, so I find this really strange. And it’s not random companies I’ve never heard of, it’s advertising firms working for leading Japanese electronics companies and major American television networks, etc. (none of whose products seem to me to be especially of interests to expats living in Germany – the bulk of my readership). It just seems so strange. Is this a new marketing scheme? Targeting fairly small blogs? I’m certainly no “leader in the blog community”, nor do I “know a lot regarding Troy” (they link to an old post in which I go on and on about all the hot actors in the movie Troy). Do they really expect to win folks over with this garbage? Anyways, I plan to have this blog as an advertisement free zone unless I actually personally endorse the product. Now watch, just because I’ve made this statement, next week I’ll find it’s decidedly in my best interest to advertise stuff – well, I hope not.
Oh man, I just got a sudden craving for cheesecake pie with cherries on top. Where the heck am I going to get this? And I’m going for a trim at the local Laaber hair salon in an hour (actually, there are four hair salons here, very strange), so wish me luck. I very much hope not to show up in Berlin sporting a mullet.
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As chance may have it, I am going to Berlin on Wednesday morning, coming back on Thursday at the crack of dawn… Lionel’s musical has one of its last performances (until they go on tour in May) and this is the only one that fits in my schedule. Maybe we could meet up?
@vailian: That would be great! I’ll send you an email in a bit.
Sadly, Tony Roma’s may think they serve ribs, but they really serve sugar. That sauce of theirs…gack. Gives me a headache.
Not, I hasten to add, that there’s anything better here. But I’ll be in Texas in two weeks, so I’m managing to suppress my Q jones at the moment.
@ed: I’m okay with their sauce. Their baby backs taste pretty much the same as baby backs in Virginia (my loss – rib-wise – growing up there and not in Texas, I guess). Speaking of Q, I really miss Carolina BBQ, which is not possible to get outside of the Carolinas unfortunately (maybe just across the Virginia border, but that’s it). Mmmm, Bullocks BBQ in Durham, uhhhh…