At work the other day, I walked into someone's office, and they had this posted up on their wall:

After intially laughing, I quickly assumed it was some punk kid who took photoshop to create some irony.

In fact, I found out, this is actually a photograph of a mural in Pyongyang, North Korea's capital. Now that's crazy.

In any case, it begs for some photoshopping...

Haven´t posted in a while...

I´ve been trying to keep good work habits by keeping non-work stuff out of work. I think it´s easy for people to fall into habits of doing more and more websurfing, aim´ing, etc, and end up either being much less productive, or staying at work much longer. I guess I was inspired by Wolf´s comment last week about the Swiss work-ethic - how they really don´t work long hours, but they´re ruthlessly efficient when they´re at work. I´d like to be ruthlessly efficient...

Work has been really good so far. I can safely say it exceeded my expectations. Not to say, however, that I´m completely blown away. Yet, it´s interesting and has positive impact. I do have to say, however, that it´s a bit frustrating to start all over at the very bottom again. Anyway, I think I´ll have a positive experience this summer out of which I´ll get a lot, so I won´t be wasting my time, or falling behind...

Ah, soo tired though...

Lets see, Wednesday night Amy and I took Wolf out to the Apple store, because he wanted to buy an iPod at non-german prices... Then we watched Zoolander

Last night, we went out to HR-57. It was great. Great atmosphere, very real (unlike the plastic walls of Bohemian Caverns), and great music. Oh, and it´s bring your own alcohol, which keeps things affordable, and you drink exactly what you want to drink. Wolf, Amy, and I shared two bottles of red wine. Also met up randomly with a group of SAIS people who were also there.

Recent purchases:
As you may have noticed, I just got myself a Nokia camera-phone. I´ll rave about it more later, but one of the many many things it is capable of doing is allowing me to post to here remotely. Eventually I can even post up the pictures I take with it, right as soon as I take them. Cool huh? And it cost me $0 to boot (Amazon rebate).

Also, amy just put down cash for a new PowerBook G4 from Apple and a new iPod. I´m so excited because then we can do all those cool Apple things that you see on commercials and stuff. We´ll be uber-dorks...

(posted from my cellphone)Right now at a way cool jazz club with amy, wolf and his gang. Great time.

(posted from my cellphone)Just got here. It´s so hot outside!

Been in a funk of lethargy for the last day and a half or so. Not to say it´s been bad in any way. Saturday, had dim sum with Amy, Wolf, Ann, and Chris. Afterwards, we went straight to the National Zoo to check out Pandas, Elephants, Tigers, and Sloths. After several hours there, I could count the number of animals I saw with one hand. This is the first time I´ve been to a zoo where there is a very conspicuous lack of animals. Are they sleeping? Or dead? Last fall, there was a big controversy surrounding the untimely deaths of a (relatively) large number of animals. Surely this isn´t the result. Amy noted, also, that the Zoo had beautiful landscaping, despite the fact that the rest of the zoo as a whole seemed to be running down. Hopefully it´s just because of the funky weather, the animals decided just to hide and sleep.

In any case, we did get to see a very distant Panda. Sadly, Wolf did not get to see his elephants, and Amy did not get to see her sloth.

Saturday night was supposed to be a fun filled night of dancing and partying. Instead, we were all pooped, so we just napped, had dinner, and hung out and talked.

Today was a beautiful day outside. I met up with my econ group briefly, then came home, napped, and went for a quick run. Wolf and Andre came over for dinner, and after watching the season premiere of Sex and the City (not my choice - although it was quite enjoyable), we went out to a local club, the Black Cat, to catch an Austin downtempo acoustic band who was touring. Their opener I didn´t like much, and made me pessimistic about the rest of the evening, but Amy´s guidance in music never fails, and the Austin band, American Acoustic Set, was very very good.

I am going to bed. Goodnight.