I think some of this may be spoken for if the parties who were interested in June are still interested. I cant find the old post, and I cant find the e-mail addresses of those who were interested. Sorry for being so terrible about this stuff. I might be able to also send it down to purg.

Wool
8 yards, 60" wide Mauve colored wool. Already washed, and ready to go. I believe it is in 2 4-yard chunks, because the washing machine couldn't handle the whole 8.  $9 a yard.
2.5 yards 60" camel colored wool suiting $8 a yard. It's very nice.

Linen
2 yards 60" wide lightweight pomegranate colored linen. $7 a yard
5 yards 60" wide dark blue linen. $6 a yard.
6 yards of a heavier pretty green linen. It is very finely woven. I'd call the color whisper green. $9 a yard.
4 yards of the limoges blue from fabrics-store.com $ 7.33 a yard

Silk
6 yards of a 60" wide gorgeous mulberry colored upholstery silk dupioni (but still woven finely).

In Reno. 22/26 hours spent awake, and can't sleep. I am unpacking. It is strange to be home.

I showed my mom all the posters I bought and she loved all of them. That makes me glad. I wish I had gotten duplicates of some things as gifts, but. . . Of course but.

I think the next class I teach will talk about the games being played in Bruegel's Children's Games.

Yesterday I saw AMAZING things. I saw the Tutanchamun exhbit, which was a little lame but come on. . . it’s Tut! I went to the KHM after. They have a large collection of Bruegel and Aertsen, as well as other Dutch artists who have painted these middle class women. Master of the Prodigal Son is a painting I was able to have printed in My Catalogue, which is something neat the KHM puts out.
Unfortunately I could not take photos and I couldn’t get terribly close to the artwork but here is what I saw:
Bruegel’s Peasant Dance is pretty amazing in person. You can also see seam details that are lost online. Obviously, a lot of is lost online. I have seen the errors of my ways. Book research and in person (when possible) are SO much better. Even posters are better.
I will try to post more about Bruegel and Aertsen later.
I also saw some Cranach and Dürer that shed some light on some construction. Nürnberg is where it’s at as far as Albrecht goes. The Dürer dress (Housebook dresses) are pretty interesting.
In Weimar, Dresden, and Vienna I saw quite a few Cranach paintings. In Weimar there was a painting that shows a woman without a brustfleck thinger. Yes, Allegorical. Still valuable.
The Albertina wasn’t that great. Out of 9 Dürer’s on display, 7 are facsimiles and they aren’t of people anyway. Well, except one. I paid a high admission that could have been better spent in the gift shop. They had Monet and Picasso and Chagall, but while that’s nice I don’t like art enough to pay admission to a museum that doesn’t involve 16th century art with plenty of women wearing cool clothes. I am SO unsophisticated.

Alive in vienna. I arrived about 4 hours ago. This hostel is FREAKING AMAZING. I have a shower in my 4 person room, all for the low price of 19€. I took the best shower I have taken since leaving Lüneburg. 

I went to eat some traditional Viennese food, or it was traditional according to the hostel map. I was a bit let down that the staff spoke really good english and I was pegged as a foreigner when I walked in and I couldn't  even order in German. I ate schnitzel. After I went to an ice cream parlor and ate poppýseed ice.

The hostel has free wireless, but I can't connect so I am paying so my time here will be short unless I can get the wireless running. Tomorrow is exploring everything that's not the KHM and the Tut exhibit. 

I come home on Wednesday so if you don't hear from me before then, I'm feeling frugal. Internet should be free!!! 

For mah reno peeps - pho or indian on Thursday or Friday? Also rib cook-off. Three tickets available at a table for Thursday. $85 each. LMK.

Thuringia is probably the most underrated awesome part of Germany. I wish I had been able to spend more time here. Today I went to Weimar, yesterday I spent a good deal of time walking around Erfurt.

I bought myself some art goodies. Best 18,20 euro ever spent

I like Erfurt better than I like Dresden.

allisongoestogermany.com will be updated in about 20 minutes with pictures.

I saw some Cranach in person. It was pretty vivid.

The woman is checking me out of my room in 2 hours. I overslept, too. It seems I forgot to set my alarm clock.

So uh, this is kind of embarrassing to bring up on LJ but if you don't know, budget cuts at the university were part of the reason why my job won't be there for me this fall. As a result, I've been trying to think of ways to make money that I wouldn't mind and that was acceptable and flexible. And it came to me.

I I will gladly turn down seams and hand finish them. Attach trim? For
sure. I am putting myself out there for hand finishing work. I don't
pattern, and I wont cut your patterns, but I will consider putting
things together for you by hand. Cost TBD based on item. Just drop me
an e-mail.



Aleit

I don't know, lady. I saw them when I ran in the sprinklers when I was 5, and I still see them.

GO BACK TO HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE MMMK?

I don't need this right now. Really. My roommates are amazing, and I am sad that tomorrow will be our last night together. It's been weird (not having much to say in German contributes to that) but it's been the most amazing experience. Today I said "Ihr seid die beste teile von meine reise" and while I'm sure it was ripe with grammatical errors, they understood what I was trying to say.

I am excited that Friday is the day I go to Dresden, but still I am sad to leave. I really wish I could stay in Germany for another semester, but I want to graduate in the Spring and my parents want me to graduate as well. I suppose this should be the time of my life where I say "to hell with that!" but I don't have the money to say "to hell with what my parents want." 

My German HAS improved. That is a plus. My sense of self has finally kicked me in the balls. I won't be the same when I come back to the United States. I never thought I could be so ok being alone. Yes, it's amazing! I can see museums alone and be happy! I can go out to dinner alone and not feel weird! I can go grocery shopping alone, and only feel weird when I ask the cashier for 50 euro back (that should have been 50 euro cent. I wonder if she could have been more of a bitch about that. I said muenzen. But I digress. . .  ) 

I'm packing right now. We'll see how this goes. Everything I don't think I'll need all the time is going at the bottom of the suitcase.  I need to assess suitcase space.

I could have seen the Aertsen that screamed CLOSED SKIRT at me while I was in Cologne. And I didn't. Because I didn't know it was there. Damn damn damn damn damn

USAC sent me an e-mail about how to handle myself when I get home.
They say:
Family and Friends
Returning students may find that their friends and family react to them differently. While abroad, you may have shared your experiences with friends and family over the phone or internet. You should understand that because your friends and family did not actually take part in the same experiences first-hand; it may make it more difficult for them to relate or understand the impact that your time away may have had on you.
Your friends and family may expect to be the same as before you went abroad. Although you may not feel like you have changed, the immersion in another culture abroad may have influenced your attitudes and perspectives. You, your friends and family may need some time to adjust to each other.

I have been thinking about my reentry into America, and how I have changed (or not changed). USAC thought it would be a good idea to send us summer students an e-mail educating us (again) about culture shock and what to expect.

I wasn't culture shocked when I got here, but I am expecting to be shocked as hell when I get back to the United States.  How is Germany REALLY that different from the United States? I haven't been here long enough to give the answer a native German would but I can say that when I get home, I think I will have to resist weeping for what America isn't (and is). Here, shops close early, they aren't open on Sunday, and even the Chinese food tastes different. However in the very small town of Lueneburg, there is still a McDonald's. Only one. At the larger train stations, there are Starbucks too. I see people wearing their suits riding their bikes to work, and I have gotten used to taking my backpack and canvas bags to the grocery store with me. That is something I am going to keep doing.

I can't really put a finger on things I've learned here, so I won't be able to cast them off when I get home. That's reassuring.

IMO, 88 degrees with 53% humidity IS hot.

I feel like I am melting. Well, not really. but I really don't want to cook anything hot.

4711. LOVES IT.

I wish I had bought a bigger bottle when I was in Cologne but now that I found it on Amazon, I think I'll be ok. It doesn't even smell THAT amazing, but it's super awesome. If I have any left when I get back to the states, you all can sniff me

Tomorrow, Cologne. I decided to stay only one day. I arrive at 11:46 on Friday, and leave around 3:00 on Saturday, thus saving myself 17 euro. I had to come to terms with my H&M spree yesterday. I spent damn near close to $200 and that's not so ok. I still like my shoes though.

I want.
Thursday, August 28
8:00 PM

Freight & Salvage Coffee House
1111 Addison Street
Berkeley, CA 94702
All Ages
Tickets $20 in advance
and $21 at the door
http://www. thefreight. org/tickets. html

See you then!
-The Ditty Bops



Won't go though. It is apparently sounding like the HMR program at UNR doesn't have a shorter program for those who have completed core. It's either maintenance, Core again, or nothing. I can't bring myself to do Core again, because I've learned all of it already. I guess I could do it. . . but blech.

Right now I am very homesick. I miss my cats, and my friends, and being hugged. I seriously want to come home. 4 more weeks to go in a beautiful country, and right now I feel like it is a prison sentence.

So very very very crappy and rainy and cold.

Good news: Hamburg has an H&M ONLY for Women. I see fabulousity in my future.

I'm thinking I should put off buying a ton of clothes, though. I am committed to the 10 week HMR program, and  I am seriously going to get a personal trainer. Hey Viggy pie (since I'm in Germany and you can't beat me <3) if any Gold's membership specials pop up, let me know. Do you have room for another sister? We look alike, damn it!

I'm doing an HMR 10 week crash course starting September 24th. It is for people have already completed core. Except for last months little blip, I have kept off all the weight I lost while on core. They have a program they are starting on August 21st, which I am super close to enrolling in, but the problem is that is the day I get back in Reno and my parents have a table for the rib cook off and that is something I would like to go to at least once. The 24th is looking like the most likely possibility. The reason I am hesitant to start that late is because it won't be the start of a new semester, it will be 4 weeks into the semester. The reason I prefer the start of the semester is because I haven't settled into any eating habits.

I guess it really comes down to the rib cookoff. Bah.

I am feeling slightly frustrated with myself, because I brought all my jogging stuff with me and I haven't gone out once. It's partly the weather (I didn't bring anything warm, because I except sunshine here), and partly me being unsure about my surroundings but the fact that I haven't walked to exercise is dumb. There is a trail to a nice park about 2 minutes from my front door. I am walking about 20 minutes a day to class and back, but that only gets one so far especially when I consider what I am eating here. Yes, more fruit, but I am also eating more meats and cereals and less fat free versions of things.