Short update

Not much new to tell here. It's a quiet, pleasantly geeky life here, a computer in every room, Farscape in the evenings, DSL... Making some progress with Spanish, writing a bit, cooking occasionally, and that's that. Kadira redecorated a bit today and managed to hurt her foot on the sharp end of a bookend (looks nasty - ouch!), and Mike is always slightly hyper. Volker still cooks like a god, and the mice are still cute as a button. (What a stupid phrase. Why is a button cute??) I'm reading an interesting book, too, recommended by Kadira: The Alien Years by Robert Silverberg. An unusually unspectacular but nevertheless gripping alien invasion novel. The aliens are truly alien, it never becomes clear what they really want from Earth... and the human resistance never even makes a dent. A good book, quite realistic, I think - it's very likely that if there were life out there and if there were ever to be any kind of contact, that would be more or less how it would turn out... unless we'd meet with some very benevolent aliens, that is. ;-)

Ah, frell, I do have something new to tell, but I sort of suppressed it, I think. I just remembered.

I got an e-mail from the foreign students' office at Frankfurt a few days ago that said that this year it was only possible to go to Britain for one semester instead of two, and now I'm wondering if it would be worthwhile at all to go to all that trouble for just four months or so. Wouldn't that be ironic, to have almost achieved a dream I've had for close to ten years, only to be 'foiled' in the last moment? I mean, before I got that mail all I knew was that I was accepted for the ERASMUS program... and I still am, but I'm not so sure I want it anymore... On the other hand, I talked to one of my fellow students here at the language school yesterday who basically told me I should take what I get, and today I talked to a British friend who told me Birmingham, the university where I would be going, was a very good uni... So should I or shouldn't I?