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I have my first visitor! Darcy is staying with me for a few days...he's a guy that I met when I worked at Pason last summer. He was there on an internship from U of A. It's interesting though, we only worked together for about a month and saw each other a few times after and yet he's the first one to come visit me out here. Though, he was already travelling around Europe and was passing through Switzerland so I invited him to stay. Annnnnyways, it's been fun, last night we all went out to Cheers (a 50's diner style bar, haha) and tonight we're going to the Zurich Wine Festival with Adrienn... it's held on a series of boats on the Zurich sea, should be fun. And as a bonus Philipp from work gave me some free tickets (thatks!), so we don't have to pay the 20 CHF...woot for free wine.
Alright, so I've done some hardcore picture gathering (mainly from Devon) in the last little while, which has resulted in adding pictures to my blog. I've added pictures to some older posts, so you can check those out if you want: Ibiza, Birthday/Martini Party, and there should be more to come once I get around to it. I also finally posted about my trip to Paris, 3 weekends ago and about my trip to London with Adrienn the weekend after (about time...).
So the reason for all this recent picture gathering is...drumroll please...I bought an external harddrive! It's about time...I've basically had no room on my laptop's hard drive for awhile, and finally caved in and bought some more memory. So now I have a 300Gb Maxor external drive (cost ~$360, pretty decent), and it's awesome. I've already filled up a good chunk of it with my pics and music, and am proceeding to fill the rest with shows/movies from Tommy, Lindsey, Warren etc...no way all their stuff will fit though (Warren alone had a Tb of media.....wtf). Anyways, I'm sure it won't be long before I think I need another one, but I think I'll try and resist on that urge. Also, I expect many of my upcoming evenings will be wasted watching movies and quality shows like Clone high, Drawn together, Family guy, Undergrads, Scrubs....mwah ha ha.
In other news...I have fallen into the world of geeky gaming and it's all Vance's fault. It started out not too bad...he wanted to buy Axis and Allies and wanted some of us to pitch in. I played last weekend with Vance, Adrienn, Shane and Evan, it was really fun, way better than Risk (somewhere out there Alex is saying "I told you so"). I was on the Allied side with Vance and Shane, and we had a pretty decent game going until the Axis decided that they needed to go to bed so we stopped the game. Next time perhaps we'll start playing earlier.
And now for the real confession...I've been playing Dungeons and Dragons, and it's really fun. Vance convinced a bunch of us to play, and some people had played before so they joined in too. Basically how it works is you create a character (I am a Druid Gnome named Indigo) and then you go on "adventures" with other characters, which are all planned out by the Dungeon Master (Vance). We have to decide strategy, and how to fight the battles, etc and Vance tells us how the situation unfolds. Lots is determined by dice rolling, especially battles, but it's mostly imagination and talking with each other to figure out the best plan. My character levelled up last adventure, yay. It's a fun game, and I think has just been given a bad rep since some people get so obsessed about it. Or that's just me trying to convince myself that I'm still cool. Anyways, I guess I'm doomed for complete geekyness and social outcastness, sigh. (P. S. here's a look into what our game sessions are like: http://www.cybermoonstudios.com/8bitDandD.html)
Other new stuff: I've bought a membership ($100) for the ASVS, which is the recreation facilities at the ETH (/Zurich University). The membership allows you to attend any drop in class you want, they have things like various martial arts, dance, aerobics, yoga, sports, swimming....the list goes on and on. I've been going to judo, which is really sweet. In some ways it's similar to Hap Ki Do / Tae Kwon Do (the martial arts that I did for 3 years in the past), but it's mostly concentrating on throwing, falling, and groundwork. I've bought a uniform (only ~$43, woot!) so I guess I'm comitted for the semester, lol. Other classes I might try out are Street Dance and Karate, and maybe some others.
Jimmy Eat World came out with a new EP recently and I've been enjoying that, as well as an old Dashboard Confessionals album that I just got (Places..)...I guess it's emo week. I also have whole bunch of nice mixes (trance, techno, beats, hip hop etc) from Travis that I've been listening too. Other current favorites include Arcade Fire, Modest Mouse, Grade, Dave Matthews Band, Damien Rice.
That's all that's new lately. I'm going to Berlin this weekend so stay tuned for a post about that. Bye!
P.S. Daddy, I got a flu shot at work :)
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