water curses

i'm visiting ohio mid-february for a couple weeks. i don't have much time to think about it because i'm shit busy beforehand doing things i should have already done.

today it was 13 degrees celsius so we rode our bikes to the elbe, which was ridiculously flooded. the bike paths were completely covered in water and you could only see the blue bike sign sticking out of the water so we took mostly roads unfortunately and walked around the blaues wunder. we went to a café and played a couple games of sorry, which i remember loving as a kid. we had a wooden board and it didn't have cards like apparently the american one does? but we played a couple games and drank coffee. last night i taught bastian how to play egyptian ratscrew, which seems to give us both heart attacks. i think i'm getting old.

i'm going to eat some mexican food and make my mom make chili and read the newspaper with my dad and call my brother "joshie" and read some books and try to decide which books to bring back with me and play with my cat and write a couple letters and laugh with tom and drink something in the zephyr and visit my old professor and laugh too loudly with my cousin and try to memorize the landscape of the area i tried so hard to leave i think.

now bastian's making steamed bread dumplings and i'm a bad person for sitting here and blogging.

we rented annie hall from phase iv. it's right around the corner from us and we're there often because they have a great selection--they have a section called "trash" with cinematic masterpieces like boa vs. python (which, i admit, i have seen, coupled with curse of the golden flower, which made an amazing movie night, i might add). but actually, i was shocked to see wayne's world there because it's a goddamn classic. anyway, i was excited of course to see they have an asian film section and mad amounts of tv series. i want to rent mad men to see what the fuss is about.

i'm really over-dramatic.