Pretty Scary...

Good evening ladies and gentlemen...

Same shit, different day...or so...Im falling into routine...but it is ok...

I woke up at 9, had my breakfast and went to uni...and was lost in the huge library...I found places that I haven't seen before, halls full with endless rows of books...pretty scary...

And also another reading room, the Bender room...which looks like a Starbucks, except for the fact that they don't offer coffee...which would be great!

I met the other Austrian student, Thomas, who is also doing some research...and he brought me another book from my teacher, Dr. Fellner, that I have to read for the next class on Monday...

Today I read 200 pages, so now we are at about 709 pages in 4 days...

And everyone told me I look tired...no wonder...my contact lenses were almost popping out...
However, I enjoyed a little break in the sun...drinking cheap (50cents) coffee and listening to Something for Rockets...

I rode my bike home, took a wrong turn again...and with the books in my bag, riding wasn't much fun...
I also went to Saveway's to buy some dinner and was impressed by the vegetarian stuff they have. I ended up buying some veggie meat-free patties and some instant mashed potatoes since I was too lazy to cook&peel some real potatoes....

Before dinner, I talked to my landlords, Lynn and Rich Wilson...they are really nice and told me some interesting stuff about Obama, who is being praised in Europe, but here people start disliking him since he makes citizens pay more taxes...and all his staff has been caught not paying taxes...but you don't really get this information on TV or the national media, just over the internet...They also told me that Obama can't hold a speech without teleprompter and sometimes he messes up the speech because he reads stuff from the teleprompter that was supposed to be read by other people. You don't hear about this in Austria....
We went on talking about American politics and I really enjoyed the conversation...

Then I had dinner with Ana and Humberto, a Portuguese couple who also study and teach in Stanford...they are nice too and invited me for dinner tomorrow evening...
And I obviously made one of Lynn's plates crack - I warmed the veggie patties in the microwave (I actually hate this thing but when one is lazy, it comes in pretty handy!!) and when I took the microwave-save plate out of the nuke and put it on the sideboard, suddenly it made a weird sound and there was a crack in the nice plate...CHE PALLE!!
Stuff like this always happens to me...it makes me feel weird...argh!

Now im in my room, pretty worn out and tired, sick of the contact lenses but too lazy to get up and remove them...I will go to bed soon since tomorrow I need to be fresh and fit to go to San Francisco at 8 a.m....I will visit the Haight Street, do some shopping, check out a tattoo parlor and a street where Hunter S. Thompson used to live and a bookstore he used to buy books at...and maybe there is time for the Golden Gate Bridge...and the rest of the classic tourist sights...

So have a nice day and leave me comments (even though my blog is boooring...)
(A pic of me after 200 pages of early American history and Puritan papers...)

Good night and good luck!