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So my author bio in the back of my books can read "When Hertha is playing, you can find her in the Olympic Stadium." (Or, if I get published in Germany, "Wann Hertha spielt, findet man sie in der Ostkurve.") Because you know that's what I'd be doing on match days if I lived in Berlin, wearing blue and white.

I wonder if I'd need a work visa if I work as a writer for myself. Looking into it now would be rather premature.

I do have a horror that we sell the house, the cars, and a lot of furniture, ship the rest to Germany, and fail to thrive there, and have to come back, without a place to return to or any stuff (like cars and jobs). That doesn't mean I shouldn't try, you know? A trial period, a few months to see if I can find paying work, say, before selling the house and bringing Ben over, would help out. (I also have a horror of renting an apartment or finding a WG sight unseen. Maybe by then Chiara, the Italian gal in my Goethe class, will have moved there & I could borrow part of her floor while looking for a place to stay.)

Pity the Embassy probably doesn't need a pharmacist on site. I wouldn't even have to do anything for my licensure, since federal facilities only require licensure in a US state. (I could work in any VA or military base in the country on my NC license.)

Heimweh.

23 Dec 2010 05:59 pm
feuervogel: photo of the statue of Victory and her chariot on the Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburg Gate)
How can I be homesick for a city I visited twice and lived in for a month?
feuervogel: photo of the statue of Victory and her chariot on the Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburg Gate)
That time in which I watch a Scorpions video on youtube and attempt to wax philosophic about an event that happened 6 time zones away when I was 13.

Somehow, 9 November snuck up on me this year. I was writing checks this morning, and I realized today's the 9th. Man.

The video I linked last year was removed by the user, sadly.
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Last night I was going home around 10 pm (and ran into night construction on I-40 that resulted in a detour down 15-501 because the whole fucking interstate was closed), and it was 90 degrees on the highway, and 85 degrees at my house. At 10:30 pm. Two hours after sunset, y'all.

We took Ben's car to the farmers market this morning, so I don't know how hot it was at 9 am when we left or 10:30 when we went home, but it was really fucking nasty out there. Accuweather tells me it's 96 degrees out, with 53% humidity, for a RealFeel (TM) of 108.

I think I made the right decision to stay inside today. Monday's high of 93 looks downright pleasant in comparison.

In other news, I need to be dissuaded from going to Berlin for my 35th birthday in 7ish months. Especially if I don't get any work any time soon :P I wonder what I'd have to do to write it off as research for my writing... (aside from "have a plan for a story/novel before I leave" and "write it"). I do want to work some more in Cold War-era Berlin, and where better to get the detail, eh?

(Though the weather in March will most likely be absolutely shit. Hopefully no worse than at Christmas or this past May...)

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