Quick Update

Sorry I haven't written since the wedding. Things have been crazy here - horse show 2 weekends ago, Leena & Larissa's birthday party last weekend, & me going to Oktoberfest Friday morning. Oh yeah, & the dissertation which is due in about 2 & a half weeks.

Overall things are good, but hectic. I'm up at 6:30am every morning during the week & usually working on the dissertation from 8am - 1130am, when Leena gets home from school. Then, if we aren't busy in the afternoons, I work on it some more. The girls are in bed by 8pm, so I usually get another 2 hours in. I FINALLY finished revisions on my first chapter, though I still need to cut about 500 words. I'm taking my 3rd chapter with me on the train tomorrow as I already have it printed out to edit. Plus it needs to be shortened considerably. The 2nd chapter needs loads of work, but in adding words. I actually really like my first essay ... I feel like I make a good argument & use plenty of critics to back up my claims.

This weekend, as I said, I am going to Oktoberfest in Bavaria (i.e. Munich). Freddy, the German guy who lived in the house with me in Wales, lives in Ingolstadt, about an hour from Munich. So I'm going down to stay with him until Sunday. I arrive at 3pm on Friday (checking the 8am train, ugh), so we'll hang out at the Oktoberfest in his town. Saturday we'll head south to Munich where we will sight see & partake of some fine German beers. Hopefully I'll find a krug (aka stein, but stein means stone in German) to bring back. Freddy says I can't steal one from the Biergarten because you pay a lot of money for the beer & then get some of it back if you return the krug. Figures. Sunday, his 83-year-old great aunt is cooking us brunch, which I thought was really sweet. She's making some turkey & rice dish.

I have pics from the horse show which I will post eventually (probably after my dissertation is finished). Dagmar & I are taking the girls to Bremen on Tuesday to go shopping because we don't have school Wednesday (yay for random holiday!). Oh & I'll also post Oktoberfest pics at some point as well ...

Anyway, it's past my bed time ...