No summer without…..
Fabulous tagged me and so I obey… so here’s my list of things I can’t do without in the summer: 1. Ice-cream I am a real sucker for ice-cream. No summer without ice-cream for me....
Category: about me
I feel so… non-American.
You’ll never guess what I did on Monday. My co-worker and I bought a commuter sticker. I found out that I can ride the bus to campus for $10/semester with my Campus ID card. The...
Deja vu
I walked into the Java City Coffeeshop in my work building this morning, when I smelled something that took me right back to where I was 15 years ago. I was staying in Boston, attending...
I got tagged!
I got tagged by lovely Kim this morning and therefore I have to participate in this little meme:  Here are the rules: * Link to the person who tagged you – go blame Kim. * Post the rules...
Get to know me better…
Seen at Kerri‘s blog: I want to: make a difference in people’s lives. do something meaningful. help people that are less fortunate than I am. carve out time for myself, daily. stand up for what I...
The geologist in me
… always wanted to live in CA, I believe. Earthquakes have strangely fascinated me since my first geography class in 5th grade, so I chose Geography as my Leistungskurs in 12th grade and later went...
I am a Resident Alien
This is the official term of my legal status in the US. Sounds lovely, huh? It always makes me think of little green men [or women] and X-Files :) Due to the Thanksgiving-weekend-with-Kim-excitement, I totally...
And sometimes I wonder: How hard can it be?
I always thought I had a pretty ordinary name. It’s not that I dislike it per se, but “Sandra” was a very common first name in the seventies and with a somewhat “ordinary”, typical German last...