Weekend update

Ok, I didn't manage the two posts I promised. So, here's a roundup of my weekend. And tomorrow I'll post more Zurich pictures with commentary.

• Rented three movies: Just Married, Down with Love, and Dark Harbor. The first two were upbeat romantic comedies - the first stoopid funny and the second lovely. Just lovely. Renee Zellweger and Ewan McGregor are fabulous. The third I thought was a Vin Diesel flick, but either I grabbed the wrong plastic sticker or the lady gave me the wrong flick. I ended up watching a dark arty drama flick that has Alan Rickman kissing a weird guy at the end. It was...interesting. I watched it all, but it was just weird. And not because Alan Rickman kisses the guy at the end, that's the least weird part of the movie. You know what? That was supposed to be the gotcha moment at the end of the movie, but I was expecting it. It just fit somehow.


• Crocheted a lot on my nieces Christmas present. I pinned down the final design and I'm about a sixth of the way through now.


• Attended a party at my upstairs neighbors. Which was great - I met lots of new people and chit chatted the entire evening, all in German. Everything was going fine until one of the other neighbors (who was pissed*, really really pissed) started talking to me at the end. He was being very earnest and trying to tell me something, but I couldn't make sense of it. I understood the words perfectly fine, but the sense just wasn't there. Finally though, I came to understand that he was talking about GWB. He'd been talking about us being friends....no no, all Americans are his friends. Even when he goes underground and kills the President, all Americans are his friends. Oookay dude. I tried explaining that the President himself is an American, and therefore not all Americans are his friend, and he explained that GWB is different. And then there was an angry tangent about Bin Laden and Scholasticism (which has been around 800 years, not 200) which didn't quite make sense. Followed by him dancing. I waited a few minutes and left. It was already 1am at this point, so it was time to leave anyway.


• I bought a USB memory stick - 256MB for 30Euro. They had a 1GB for 80Euro. Amazing, oder?

That was my weekend. I hope all of yours were as relaxing.

* pissed means very drunk in British speak