Berlin - 2.2.09

My Pretty Plant! Bought at Ikea.

Hey all, time for another update! So, I think I’ll start with the most recent first. I entered my novel into a national competition for a publishing grant through Penguin Publishing inc. I’m certainly not expecting to win, but it will be a good way to familiarize my book with their corporation so maybe I can get it published with them later. It’s a fun and exciting experience either way! I’ll let everyone know when it’s up. Due to size issues, I only turned in my first and second book for the completion, but it’s not a big difference to me really. I’ll get it all out eventually!
So last night was rough! I didn’t get to sleep until around 6 AM. Why might you ask? I had a bloody eyelash stuck under my eyelid! Ironic that the worst thing to get stuck underneath there just so happens to be the closest thing to it… aside from fingernail clippings that is, which is what it felt like was in there from 2 to 4:30 AM. I didn’t know how much damage or anything like that could occur, plus I wasn’t sleeping at all, so I decided to go to the ER, since it’s free for me . Oh yeah… and I was reading all these scary stories on the internet about how you shouldn’t let things sit in your eye very long because it could cause permanent damage and all that as well…
I was explaining my situation to the nurse there and she told me she had to direct me to a special eye clinician in another clinic. She came around the corner to ask me another question. I was sitting, she standing, so I looked up at her at an extreme angle, and guess what happened? I felt this sudden wave of relief, and it was gone! I have to say that was a god-like nurse there who could save me without even touching my eye. She must have been one of those miracle spirits or something. Thanks random German nurse. So the story has a decent ending at least, aside from wandering around the suburbs for another hour taking buses back home, which is still just amazing that I can do at 5AM.
I feel like Santa this last week or so. I’ve been buying tons of presents upon request for people, and others out of good will and returning favors. Thing ranging from Gummies, to hats and… other things on my own inspiration :D. It’s fun though.
So last weekend was quite fun.

I got a chip for my camera, which enabled me to take many more photos. It’s amazing what kind of fun you can have with a camera going on these long train rides out to town and back.

I experimented with a bunch of different camera settings, and each one had certain lightings and angles that they tended to work better with, so it will just take some getting used to.
Ominous Photo of the TV tower... spooky!

We went all over the place on Friday night, and got quite lost. We were with a group of 15 initially, which got down to only 4 at one point, back up to six and eventually splitting up completely.

Just another crazy night! We were trying to find this secret party that you have to be a member of this real secretive face book group. They even put the location in code. Omg… We found this place, but the bouncers were pretty pretentious, and wouldn’t let one of our friends in, so we just went to Weekend, which was a generic club that we knew and loved well.

I think that’s about all I have to report for now… other than I downloaded doom 2 recently, and it’s super amazing! I beat it on normal mode already… brings back good memories. Anyway, that’s all for now. Peace all,