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Past week - salary arrives!
Sep. 22nd, 2008 05:12 pmAnd with the salary the excuse to make several different shopping trips! Yay!
So, by now, I've managed to equip my home with most of the essentials. I've a microwave oven (for the first time in 3 years), a water boiler, a rice cooker and a combined mop and vacuum cleaner. I also have figured out where to put most of my books, so any week now I'll be able to empty that last suitcase and clear the Pile Of Stuff off of my floor. Any week now.
In other news, I've hooked up with the Stanford German Stammtisch - with a whole bunch of cool Germans gone to Stanford to study or do research. I've filed my interest in joining the Stanford Scandinavian Club for their Crayfish party. I've secured a (very unofficial) place in the SLOrk this term. And I've seen a Jewish street festival - with live Klezmer, community dancing and weird food.
The saga of My Computer continues. It got upgraded to a debacle today, when the department chief administrator joined the fun. Apparently, currently, people in Procurement are running around blaming each other and generally generating conflict, while the high-ups in my department are actively waving a Bunsen burner beneath all bottoms to get the paperwork in order to order me a laptop. We'll see how this all progresses.
Also, an early heads-up all you east-coasters. It seems I might end up going to Pennsylvania again in mid-late December for a while. If anyone wanna meet up, that'd be one of the more ideal times.
So, by now, I've managed to equip my home with most of the essentials. I've a microwave oven (for the first time in 3 years), a water boiler, a rice cooker and a combined mop and vacuum cleaner. I also have figured out where to put most of my books, so any week now I'll be able to empty that last suitcase and clear the Pile Of Stuff off of my floor. Any week now.
In other news, I've hooked up with the Stanford German Stammtisch - with a whole bunch of cool Germans gone to Stanford to study or do research. I've filed my interest in joining the Stanford Scandinavian Club for their Crayfish party. I've secured a (very unofficial) place in the SLOrk this term. And I've seen a Jewish street festival - with live Klezmer, community dancing and weird food.
The saga of My Computer continues. It got upgraded to a debacle today, when the department chief administrator joined the fun. Apparently, currently, people in Procurement are running around blaming each other and generally generating conflict, while the high-ups in my department are actively waving a Bunsen burner beneath all bottoms to get the paperwork in order to order me a laptop. We'll see how this all progresses.
Also, an early heads-up all you east-coasters. It seems I might end up going to Pennsylvania again in mid-late December for a while. If anyone wanna meet up, that'd be one of the more ideal times.
