Nuremblog

My insanity has been cured! I just went back and read over that other entry. How embarrassing. I guess that's what happens when you Blog under distress. And I was severely distressed because of my complete isolation. If any of you have ever played The Sims, it was like all of my bars were full: energy, hunger, fun, comfort, etc. but the social bar was completely empty. But yesterday it was filled again in a great way so I'm better now.

I went with four other people to the city of Nuremburg, the name of which you may recognise from your history books, if they mentioned the Nuremburg Trials, where a bunch of Nazis were tried for war crimes and most of them were sentenced to execution. I went with Justin, Jesse, and two other people. Rachel's younger sister Liz (who is much cooler than Rachel because she smoked weed regularly...haha), and another American student named Kristian, who is from Wisconsin and is one of the nicest guys I've ever met.

Apparently Nuremburg was one of the most important cities to Hitler's Third Reich, and he held many Nazi Rallies (sort of like Republican conventions) and built or at least started to build many Nazi structures, including a Kongresshal (you can guess the meaning) which is unfinished but now a museum where you can learn all about the rise of Hitler and specifically the role of Nuremburg in all that madness. Apparently there were lots of hardcore Nazis there, and I wouldn't be surprised if there are still some around. There certainly aren't many Jews in that city. Anyway, we went to the museum and took English audio tours which lasted 3 hours and repeated itself a lot but it was still very interesting.

Then we walked around the city, drank some hot wine, made our way up to the castle where we had the most awesome fucking view of the city at sunset, then found a nearby restaurant and ate delicious Bavarian food and drank delicious Bavarian beer.

The last train left at 7:00 and got back to Frankfurt at 10:30, and we made the mistake of stopping off for one last wine before the train ride at 6:40. When we got to the train it was completely filled to the brim and we had to wait for an hour in a section between the cars in order for some seats to open up. That was the only bad part of the day.

By the time we got back to Frankfurt, all of the alcohol had worn off and we were feeling tired but completely sober. Then...like lightning...a miracle struck. Kristian invited us over to his dorm to smoke hash (auf Deutsch: kiffen)!!!! Having not smoked since my spoils from Amsterdam and always willing to get high, I enthusiastically agreed. So Justin, Jesse, and I went to Kristian's dorm and smoked a few spliffs and a few bowls and watched some Family Guy DVDs and the movie Tombstone. Man, it felt great. I couldn't remember the last time I've just gotten high with friends and sat around watching tv and movies. Scratch that, I can remember, it was August in Autumn lane. I had forgotten just how great that was. And to think that while it was going on I took it for granted and felt like I was wasting my life just sitting around, getting high, and staring at a tv screen. That's some serious luxury, people, and I hope you all appreciate it, 'cause when it's gone you're gonna fucking miss it.

But anyway, I went home at 3 in the morning, ate some delicious Swiss chocolate which was 10 times more delicious than normal, and went to sleep easier than I've done in weeks. Now I feel completely great, my "social bar" is filled, and I'm ready to spend the day all alone again, but in a much better state of mind than before.

Luke: thanks for the words of encouragement. I definitely agree with what you say...you've just got to keep it positive. But I don't think that's possible all the time. I think you need to sometimes descend into pessimism in order to refresh your optimism when it returns. Human emotions move in cycles. You can't just be happy or sad all the time. Without the opposite emotion to balance it out, happiness and sadness are meaningless. But what you can do is try to be positive more often than negative, and that's what I need to work on.
As far as your pyramid scheme goes, I must have seen too many tv shows where stuff like that turns out to be a big hoax and whoever goes into it ends up broke and feeling like they've been used and manipulated. I don't really have $500 to risk while I'm over here, as tempting as becoming a millionnaire sounds. What do I have to do? Recruit more people and get them to pay $500 to do the same thing? Because if that's the case, I'm out. No matter how motivational these people can be, I don't think I'd ever be able to convince enough people to join this thing.
But please let me know if it's not like that, and if it does work out for you. If I have eyewitness testimony from someone I know and trust that this works, you can definitely count me in.

So that's about it for now. Keep blogging, people. This doesn't just have to be a Luke / Kem dialogue. It can be a trialogue, or even a quadrupologue, quintupologue, sextoupologue, even a dodecoupologue (whatever that is). If I don't see more people blogging real soon, I'm going to come over there and use Nazi torture methods to make you blog.

Peace, bitches!
And Heil Hitler too!