I got to bed
to sleep
on the day you're waking up in
to live,
So I can wake up in the day
that you call tomorrow.
And go to bed in theday
I call
Yesterday.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
haha yay Vienna!
In an article posted on business week:
In Mercer Consultings annual Quality of Living Survey, Europe once again dominates the list of 215 countries around the world. The top three cities are, by rank, Vienna, Zurich (last years winner), and Geneva. Commonwealth nations fare pretty well, too, winning 9 of the top 30 spots—even though London comes in only at 38. The U.S. also fares poorly, barely making it into the top 30 with Honolulu and San Francisco in the bottom two places.
I live in the best city in the world! Haha how cool! :)
In Mercer Consultings annual Quality of Living Survey, Europe once again dominates the list of 215 countries around the world. The top three cities are, by rank, Vienna, Zurich (last years winner), and Geneva. Commonwealth nations fare pretty well, too, winning 9 of the top 30 spots—even though London comes in only at 38. The U.S. also fares poorly, barely making it into the top 30 with Honolulu and San Francisco in the bottom two places.
I live in the best city in the world! Haha how cool! :)
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Friday, October 16, 2009
Tis the Seaon for Pumpkin Carving lalalala...
Yes it is that time for pumpkin seeds and Jack O Lanterns. Moni and I carved us some pumpkins last week, good thing too as the weather coldy turned on us this week. 
There is something very nostalgic about the smell of freshly butchered pumpkins.
Hmm now that doesn't sound very quaint...I'll try again. There is something very nostalgic about the rich smell of fall, the smell of wood burning in furnaces dancing through the air, the feeling of cleaning out the pumpkin and everything turning orange, the meditative sound of leaves bustling through the wind and crunching under toes tip toeing home in the night.
Do you think using exclamation points in writing is like laughing at your own jokes? I heard that somewhere once. Why is somewhere one word? English is so strange. I feel my knowledge of it fleeting quiet rapidly...eeek!
As far as updates: Nothing too new. I've been understanding a lot more German within the last week or so, which is really neat! Every Thursday I go to this little cafe near Moni's dance stuido and use only German. I am very though using it though, and people I meet here actually describe me as that shy American girl ;). I don't remember the last time someone thought I was shy.
I will say the weather is frightening. Snow fell pretty consistently all day yesterday, though the ground is still a little too warm to keep it snow. It is very cold this October. They say it will get to about 33 degrees F by Monday, and this is only fall!
Enough about the weather, I feel like that's all I ever really talk about in the recent past. Sorry!
Today Reina is coming over to teach me how to make home-made sushi! We have rice vineagar and everything! I'm very excited and I hope its not too hard so someday I can make it at home for family and friends! :) Yum!
Hmm now that doesn't sound very quaint...I'll try again. There is something very nostalgic about the rich smell of fall, the smell of wood burning in furnaces dancing through the air, the feeling of cleaning out the pumpkin and everything turning orange, the meditative sound of leaves bustling through the wind and crunching under toes tip toeing home in the night.
Do you think using exclamation points in writing is like laughing at your own jokes? I heard that somewhere once. Why is somewhere one word? English is so strange. I feel my knowledge of it fleeting quiet rapidly...eeek!
As far as updates: Nothing too new. I've been understanding a lot more German within the last week or so, which is really neat! Every Thursday I go to this little cafe near Moni's dance stuido and use only German. I am very though using it though, and people I meet here actually describe me as that shy American girl ;). I don't remember the last time someone thought I was shy.I will say the weather is frightening. Snow fell pretty consistently all day yesterday, though the ground is still a little too warm to keep it snow. It is very cold this October. They say it will get to about 33 degrees F by Monday, and this is only fall!
Enough about the weather, I feel like that's all I ever really talk about in the recent past. Sorry!
Today Reina is coming over to teach me how to make home-made sushi! We have rice vineagar and everything! I'm very excited and I hope its not too hard so someday I can make it at home for family and friends! :) Yum!
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Just for the Mood...
Its one of those mellow optimistic beats.
down
never fallin' down down down
never fallin' down.
never fallin' down down down
never fallin' down
even if i was blindsided by mac trucks
in the side street in the alley way
in the foriegn city
i would still make it back home
On a highway no bulletins no street signs, no public cars, no radio, no satellite
I still make it back home
Connected to the universe
like a string of lights on the holiday
if one's out doesn't mean the mind of bar who roam the stone
feel the earth y'all the fire water and sky under his home under his clothes under his belt
its the varientsister?? tones i never regret the wake and the as the birth shot forth on my feet not my fins i am a man to finish it out don't forget gravity laws
the only thing keeping me from flight
wings of space
infinite night
downward spiral not in sight
down
never falling down down down
never falling down
great there is no father
its her and her offspring
nobodys offering help
skin aint softening
acts chopped to the ankles
her babies coughing
maybe the check will come today
the waits exhausting
she's the pillar so
she cant be tilted
give her sons
the feeling as though
they got a million to blow
need no stilts to reach the stars
teach the kids to reach with their heads
and they each will be yours
i give a piece of me for her
to have a piece of mind
or a piece of your chicken
cause its ramen all the time
she's thin and getting scared
but she never lets on
many men will not fall cause their mama's head strong (strong strong strong)
down
never fallin down down down
never fallin down
pick your feet on up
why don't you get on up
lift your spirits up
damn i know this shit is tough
i flunked in high school
my pops he left me young
i often lost my cool
days i feel my mama's gun
i lost my only son
when my girl she almost died
a bad abortion haunted by a baby's eyes
and every reason lies
cause you know the truth inside
you're feeling like a coward
like the wrong person died
but still you gotta ride
let the years pass em by
never really knowing why
no questions why i'm always high
down down down
never falling down
down down down
never falling down
look
we slipping and sliding
808 big riding
servin' rocks
balling while they conquering and dividing
teeth glistening shining
listening to ourselves lying
believe in a bleedin' ego still trying
identifying with the why and the whats
self hatin is the scars and the cuts that
run deep down
not giving a fuck
behind the sweet sound of the new blues
rattling the truck full of sun roof to new shoes
chrome
neglecting the home
disrespecting the zone
that Sankofa should of shown us
looking back before the time that they owned us
but never really owned a damn thing the spirit
sounded like
down
never falling down down down
never fallin down
i'm hella irresponsible
and possibly the cause
of the my subsequent downfall
now I take a pause
and reflect on my karma
and laws i've ignored
all the signs that could cause
a turn and redirect my preferred
course of action
before the curse of my ashes
the rehabilitation of the baddest on the planet
will set a mark a milestone of progress
the life changing tones of my heart
and soul mean the most
learning voices be the search
and exhume all the skeletons
a room full of demons with an angel as a prisoner
she's tortured for the visitors
the listeners who read between the lines
and stay inquisitive to dissect these sentences
down
never falling down down down
never falling down
last night i took a field trip
kind of bent, hopped a fence
cut across a playground
and lay down in a cemetery
reflecting on my past present and current events
speech slurring out venting to the moon
or course she was answering me
not literal
but in the spiritual sense
we spoke me myself and i
but i wasn't alone
in fact it felt that picture of a beach with footprints
in the sand
you know the poem hanging
in grandmamas home
where does love come from?
where does it go when its gone
what takes its place
and why does that space turn
hard as stone
another year i am older today
in many ways i've grown
but in my head
them questions still they roam
riding a bike
she said its like cycling in circles
with your eyes closed
no hands blind faith is what she called it man
said life's an ocean with a lot of commotion
once you dive, and ya its deep
but if you could swim it ain't mattering
down
never falling down down down
never falling down
down down down
never falling down.
down
never fallin' down down down
never fallin' down.
never fallin' down down down
never fallin' down
even if i was blindsided by mac trucks
in the side street in the alley way
in the foriegn city
i would still make it back home
On a highway no bulletins no street signs, no public cars, no radio, no satellite
I still make it back home
Connected to the universe
like a string of lights on the holiday
if one's out doesn't mean the mind of bar who roam the stone
feel the earth y'all the fire water and sky under his home under his clothes under his belt
its the varientsister?? tones i never regret the wake and the as the birth shot forth on my feet not my fins i am a man to finish it out don't forget gravity laws
the only thing keeping me from flight
wings of space
infinite night
downward spiral not in sight
down
never falling down down down
never falling down
great there is no father
its her and her offspring
nobodys offering help
skin aint softening
acts chopped to the ankles
her babies coughing
maybe the check will come today
the waits exhausting
she's the pillar so
she cant be tilted
give her sons
the feeling as though
they got a million to blow
need no stilts to reach the stars
teach the kids to reach with their heads
and they each will be yours
i give a piece of me for her
to have a piece of mind
or a piece of your chicken
cause its ramen all the time
she's thin and getting scared
but she never lets on
many men will not fall cause their mama's head strong (strong strong strong)
down
never fallin down down down
never fallin down
pick your feet on up
why don't you get on up
lift your spirits up
damn i know this shit is tough
i flunked in high school
my pops he left me young
i often lost my cool
days i feel my mama's gun
i lost my only son
when my girl she almost died
a bad abortion haunted by a baby's eyes
and every reason lies
cause you know the truth inside
you're feeling like a coward
like the wrong person died
but still you gotta ride
let the years pass em by
never really knowing why
no questions why i'm always high
down down down
never falling down
down down down
never falling down
look
we slipping and sliding
808 big riding
servin' rocks
balling while they conquering and dividing
teeth glistening shining
listening to ourselves lying
believe in a bleedin' ego still trying
identifying with the why and the whats
self hatin is the scars and the cuts that
run deep down
not giving a fuck
behind the sweet sound of the new blues
rattling the truck full of sun roof to new shoes
chrome
neglecting the home
disrespecting the zone
that Sankofa should of shown us
looking back before the time that they owned us
but never really owned a damn thing the spirit
sounded like
down
never falling down down down
never fallin down
i'm hella irresponsible
and possibly the cause
of the my subsequent downfall
now I take a pause
and reflect on my karma
and laws i've ignored
all the signs that could cause
a turn and redirect my preferred
course of action
before the curse of my ashes
the rehabilitation of the baddest on the planet
will set a mark a milestone of progress
the life changing tones of my heart
and soul mean the most
learning voices be the search
and exhume all the skeletons
a room full of demons with an angel as a prisoner
she's tortured for the visitors
the listeners who read between the lines
and stay inquisitive to dissect these sentences
down
never falling down down down
never falling down
last night i took a field trip
kind of bent, hopped a fence
cut across a playground
and lay down in a cemetery
reflecting on my past present and current events
speech slurring out venting to the moon
or course she was answering me
not literal
but in the spiritual sense
we spoke me myself and i
but i wasn't alone
in fact it felt that picture of a beach with footprints
in the sand
you know the poem hanging
in grandmamas home
where does love come from?
where does it go when its gone
what takes its place
and why does that space turn
hard as stone
another year i am older today
in many ways i've grown
but in my head
them questions still they roam
riding a bike
she said its like cycling in circles
with your eyes closed
no hands blind faith is what she called it man
said life's an ocean with a lot of commotion
once you dive, and ya its deep
but if you could swim it ain't mattering
down
never falling down down down
never falling down
down down down
never falling down.
Monday, October 5, 2009
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Some Wiley Adventures!
Hello!
Man its 4:40 and I'm beat from my shenanigans last night. Dayna and I went to the strangest places ever-The Pratterdome- There were lots of rooms with different themes and tons of crazy people. There was a house music room, old school german jumpin good time room, "Hip-Hop" room and I'm not sure what else. They have a really sneaky thing where at the door you get a plastic card and you use it to buy all your drinks and stuff. At the end of the night you have to go and give them your card and they tell you what you owe! Dangerous. I really miss how by law they have to give you water in establishments. I spent $14 on water!! This place was good fun but really strange. It felt like something out of a really twisted circus movie.
Had to leave Dayna in Pratter and take a 40 Minute train ride and short taxi home, arrived safely at 5:55am. My feet hurt. That said, I successfully carried out a conversation in German with the Taxi driver. We said good morning to each other. He asked me where I wanted to go and I told him the address. He said it was cold out. I said very cold, and that I didn't like it. He told me my fare and I gave him the money and said thank you and goodbye!
Man its 4:40 and I'm beat from my shenanigans last night. Dayna and I went to the strangest places ever-The Pratterdome- There were lots of rooms with different themes and tons of crazy people. There was a house music room, old school german jumpin good time room, "Hip-Hop" room and I'm not sure what else. They have a really sneaky thing where at the door you get a plastic card and you use it to buy all your drinks and stuff. At the end of the night you have to go and give them your card and they tell you what you owe! Dangerous. I really miss how by law they have to give you water in establishments. I spent $14 on water!! This place was good fun but really strange. It felt like something out of a really twisted circus movie.
Had to leave Dayna in Pratter and take a 40 Minute train ride and short taxi home, arrived safely at 5:55am. My feet hurt. That said, I successfully carried out a conversation in German with the Taxi driver. We said good morning to each other. He asked me where I wanted to go and I told him the address. He said it was cold out. I said very cold, and that I didn't like it. He told me my fare and I gave him the money and said thank you and goodbye!
Thursday, October 1, 2009
While Dutifully Avoiding My Econ and its Joys of Comparative Advantage...
Economics is a really complicated way of saying that Consumers want to pay less for a good and Sellers want to sell the good for more.
Have you ever sat outside of a Musik Schule? Its actually really nice. Yesterday I took Moni to her flute lesson and waited in the pretty park near by. Young voices singing "ain't no mountain high enough..." with enthusiasm only innate in children and few adults. Sounds of saxophones, piano and flutes all make their way through the windows and out into the court yard area where I've posted myself with my book Me Talk Pretty One Day. Its really a moment I want to hold on to. The flowers are still in bloom in the middle of the garden. But the trees and plants in the surroundings are being painted with autumn colors of reds and oranges. The smell of burning wood in fireplaces makes me feel comfortable and at home.
Have you ever sat outside of a Musik Schule? Its actually really nice. Yesterday I took Moni to her flute lesson and waited in the pretty park near by. Young voices singing "ain't no mountain high enough..." with enthusiasm only innate in children and few adults. Sounds of saxophones, piano and flutes all make their way through the windows and out into the court yard area where I've posted myself with my book Me Talk Pretty One Day. Its really a moment I want to hold on to. The flowers are still in bloom in the middle of the garden. But the trees and plants in the surroundings are being painted with autumn colors of reds and oranges. The smell of burning wood in fireplaces makes me feel comfortable and at home.
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