| | Xanga may be dying, but I felt like posting anyway since I haven't in quite a while. :)
Just got back from a week-long trip with my mom and Apollo to visit Jerry in Berlin. It consisted mostly of drinking and shopping and eating really good food in various parts of Berlin. We also went to a couple orchestra concerts, one of which I slept (and snored) through. But that's ok because I was still jet-lagged at that point! The other concert was by the Berlin Philharmonic. It was an outdoor concert with a huge attendance (~ 20,000 people?), and it felt kind of like a ball game only with music instead of a game...
We also went to Stockholm for a couple days, which was also quite pleasant. It was cool and sunny and very pretty, and there was ocean everywhere along with a lot of old architecture.
When the trip was over we had to leave Jerry behind in Berlin, but on our way home we got to haul a bunch of his stuff back to the States - 7 large bags of it! - since he and Lizz are moving back to the US soon. Getting all your belongings moved across an ocean can be quite a pain, so we didn't mind helping out with this. Of course, instead of "we" maybe I should say "Apollo," since Apollo happily did about all of the heavy bag-lifting. Kudos to him. :)
Getting Jerry's accordion back was the most fun, though, since it couldn't really fit into a bag, and Apollo had to carry it around by hand. The accordion would occasionally make noises when he didn't mean it to, as accordions can sometimes do that if they don't have a strap to keep the bellows closed. This is quite unlike the lovely flute which will barely make a peep for you until you've spent some time figuring out how to play it. That accordion certainly attracted enough attention, including a couple music requests. :)
Anyhow, now back to the protostellar accretion paper (to be **hopefully** submitted soon!!) and hotness in Austin.
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