Change of environment often comes with some interesting sequences of happenings like today, when I moved (back?) to Vienna. The 1st Oct hurray! NOT! Ok anyways, so here it goes:
1) Sleep in a night train with almost maximal lighting on - luckily got through with only vorteilscard application not having paid. Fortunately my expectations fulfilled - I was able to sleep in the train for some good 4 hours - not close to enough but anyway..
2) A walk from the Westbahnhof to my new dorm - at around 1 hour on foot. Thought that it should be smthn like refreshening my Vienna insights, but at the end appeared to be damn tiring - especially those uphills with my 20kg bag and 10kg rucksack on my shoulders. Looks like I've lost not only 6kg but percentually more strength as well.
3) Of course I wasn't able to move into the dorm at 8.30 as it should have been possible to happen, cos of course they hadn't had checked the rooms, which postponed the whole procedure till 14.00... and I was damn tired already. At least there were some buckets of internet at faculty which is luckily 15 mins on foot from the dorm.
4) As the others were browsing along in the computer lab room, I was snoozing with some intervals of conscious browsing - working on thesis of course wasn't anything viable at such a state. I hope I didn't snore at least.
5) Ok once having had patiently stood through the queue for 1 hour and having listened to czech more than I've ever needed, I got at last in my room at 15.30... So next part - gotta check whether my bike and stuff are still there at my previous dorm... 45 mins walk, of course.
6) Nice downhill walk and guess what - I ran into 2 students that were speaking in some common language... -lithuanian-? NOT! latvian. I mean Latvian is no Russian - you can't just walk in a park and meet a Latvian in Vienna, running into latvian in Vienna is less probable than running into one in Sydney (which actually happened to me), the probability is about equal to seeing a speeding Estonian driver. Anyways, I gotta know about 50 euro Semesterkarte, I hope it's not a bad joke - gotta verify this one.
7) Some hospitable (ok not at the beginning as he asked me whether I'm a Czech (Which is only a bit less offensive than being asked whether I'm a Russian :) and was asking some questions to verify if i'm not just going there to steal a bike) finnish let me in to my bicycle and sacks of stuff. Afterwards I regreted that I didn't manage to demonstrate my finnish skills (terve, uksi, kaksi etc :).
8) A fun ride - having packed all my stuff in the big bag I rode bike with one hand and with other held the bag's handle whilst the bag was rolling on the streets on its trolleys. At first I got seriously unsure about the balance, but at the end I could even correct the trajectory of the bag so that it doesn't fall down and carry me with it :). In either case suddenly I felt popular... all eyes on a guy with a big bag disturbing the cars and other cyclists. Sometimes you have to be egoist... when it matters.
9) At last home, chunks of sleep, heaps of czechs (mostly czechitas :) in the neighbourhood, maybe I'll catch up czech to the level I did with Lithuanian. Probably not. It's not Bolzano and I'm getting more and more unsocial :(. Age and mentality takes its toll.
10) Yeah and then there was a locker game - I felt like in a tv show - you have 2 keys - one for the locker in the kitchen and one for the locker in the fridge. Of course it would be completely unnecassary to enumate those dozen smthn lockers... So the variance wasn't on my side - the last locker did unlock and in the fridge I had to retry to find mine.
11) And the last but not the least - I hope my room mate will be a monolingual germanophone. Probably not gonna happen....
And now it's just a lazy sloppy coding night, which will probably once again result in a ~30% expected effort and the sole excuse will be once again - too little constraints. At least the "we are scientists" album, I found on my pc, beat my expectations - song by song nothing special, but the whole album together as a monolite energizer - smthn like power indie :D.
P.S. It's not that I'm going to write every day or even every week such stuff that completely abuses my blah's format. No resolution either. And this one doesn't make much sense as a whole either, so better stick with the sloppy conciseness as unfolding tends to roll away from the sense (of course if there's any).
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