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OK, I admit it. It's really really freaking handy that the Euro and the dollar are so close.

My bike is together! Now all I need is a pump. sigh.

and and and

And there are parks! lovely huge expanses of wooded parkland, right in the city! I skated through two great big ones today, and caught the second half of a good flashy juggling act. I was doubly charmed, since the juggler was a blonde woman in a zebra-striped dress. Then, I caught a mongolian band playing in a tunnel. Even the buskers here kick butt.

Soon, I promise, this journal will become more than just me enthusing about how great this city is. Any day now...

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The first round of classes last week went well. I was worried that the lab would be completely worthless, especially since I didn't end up finishing it until about an hour before the class started, and since there were a bunch of technical problems. But it worked! And people did the right things wrong and drew the correct conclusions, and everything! It felt almost like magic. And, since I was unbelievably stressed that everything would go horribly wrong, having things go right was an extra-pleasant surprise.

(Extra-pleasant meaning super-duper nice, not meaning "outside the boundaries of pleasantness".)

One more round of classes next week, and then some more normal work for a while. Whee!