2010 | Dec 25 | 11:03
Since Germans primarily do their celebrating on the 24th, I can now cross “Christmas in Germany” from my list of things to do in my life. Although I had some doubts at the start of the month, I would say that I’ve done pretty well in celebrating the holiday. (more…)
2010 | Dec 23 | 08:45
entertainment | language | music | musicals
The RPG this week was cancelled, so no news on that front. Things have been kind of quiet at work getting ready for Christmas and working on my designs for TEAMGOLD. So instead of fight scenes, this week you get to hear my thoughts on English comic opera. (more…)
2010 | Dec 18 | 12:02
food | photography | work
Quite a bit of time has been spent at work the past week or week and a half on preparing Aclewe’s Christmas gifts for the clients. Finding little gift boxes that would be the right size, mixing massive quantities of chocolates, folding the boxes, cutting orange Aclewe paper and then building the insets for the boxes, packing chocolates in paper cups (more…)
2010 | Dec 16 | 07:42
First off, I should make a few comments on last week’s post since it’s gained so much attention. (more…)
2010 | Dec 13 | 21:50
design | entertainment | work
Friday was an exciting day! In the morning Svenja and Claudia and I took a trip to a print shop outside of town. That was quite interesting because I know so little about the way the print process works in reality. I saw the huge printers that they print RIT’s magazine on and of course I worked with the digital printers at the Hub to print a (more…)
2010 | Dec 8 | 18:56
My mom sent me a homemade advent calendar box, which has been really cute. The first day was a desk tree, and then each consecutive day there’s been a little piece of chocolate and an ornament or a tiny string of lights or whatever in a packet hung from some christmasy ribbons. Even though the construction doesn’t really have enough (more…)
2010 | Dec 4 | 12:58
design | life | photography | roleplaying games | work
I realize that news of my life in Cologne have been a bit sparse. This is mostly because all you people who think living abroad is really glamorous, are wrong. :P I wake up and go to work every morning in a world full of people speaking another language, spend the day photoshopping images or other tasks, come home, have dinner, chat with my friends on IM, watch the Daily Show or something else, write an email or two, and go to bed. (more…)
2010 | Dec 3 | 08:05
When I was looking at universities during high school, I was encouraged by pretty much everybody to “ask lots of questions! grab students on the campus and find out what they really think!” I always wished that I knew what kind of questions to ask (ignore the nervousness involved in harassing random college students (more…)
2010 | Nov 26 | 19:05
Since the landlord is evidently hoping to wrap up the navigational system project that we have going on in a hope to make sense of our poor chaotic parking lot courtyard by the end of the year, I guess we are trying to come to the end of the project. Here’s some of the work I’ve done for it. (more…)
2010 | Nov 21 | 12:57
Yesterday I spent a good bit of the day wandering through the university quarter of Cologne, in search of Starbase 8, a “science fiction fan store” in hopes of finding out about some kind of nerd club where I could meet other people. The store was pretty awesome, (more…)
