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I got another annotation contract gig today, on top of the one I was already doing, so I'm splitting my time between them. They use very different parts of my brain, and the new one is easier, but more tedious. I can manage about an hour at a time on each type before nothing looks like language or grammar anymore, at which point I'm useless, so I take a break.
I went for another walk in the park today. There were fewer people, unsurprisingly for a Monday afternoon. I also went to Lidl for the first time. It's another German discount grocery store, so it's basically like Aldi: limited selection of brands, lots of house brand stuff, off-brand German chocolates. One thing Lidl has that Aldi doesn't, however, is fresh German bread. I heard about this bakery from a student, and I decided I'd check it out.
It was pretty amazing. I went for bread, and I returned with FOUR KINDS of bread: cheese rolls, pretzel rolls, Bauernbrot (yes, *real* Bauernbrot, I had some for dinner and it was wonderful), and bagels. Being me, I also left with chocolate, hummus, pasta sauce, sweet potato chips, and blackberries.
The one thing I had hoped for finding but didn't were Amerikaner, which are the German take on black and white cookies. (I've had American-made B&Ws, and I didn't like them as much. The glaze was different? And maybe the dough was too dry? I was expecting cakier.)
Lidl also seemed to have some rebranded Trader Joe's products, that or convergent evolution. Not that I'm complaining! Lidl is <10 minutes' drive; TJ's is at least 30.
I went for another walk in the park today. There were fewer people, unsurprisingly for a Monday afternoon. I also went to Lidl for the first time. It's another German discount grocery store, so it's basically like Aldi: limited selection of brands, lots of house brand stuff, off-brand German chocolates. One thing Lidl has that Aldi doesn't, however, is fresh German bread. I heard about this bakery from a student, and I decided I'd check it out.
It was pretty amazing. I went for bread, and I returned with FOUR KINDS of bread: cheese rolls, pretzel rolls, Bauernbrot (yes, *real* Bauernbrot, I had some for dinner and it was wonderful), and bagels. Being me, I also left with chocolate, hummus, pasta sauce, sweet potato chips, and blackberries.
The one thing I had hoped for finding but didn't were Amerikaner, which are the German take on black and white cookies. (I've had American-made B&Ws, and I didn't like them as much. The glaze was different? And maybe the dough was too dry? I was expecting cakier.)
Lidl also seemed to have some rebranded Trader Joe's products, that or convergent evolution. Not that I'm complaining! Lidl is <10 minutes' drive; TJ's is at least 30.
