Yesterday we had two reports given on GPS. Today here are two things to do with your GPS:

Drawing and

Finding confluences.

Parrots often make for weird disfunctional pets.

These dinosaurous survivors often outlive their masters. They exibit very human emotions, like frustration, affection, jealousy.

And everso often, a few specimen come to the forefront a-showboatin’

Like little N’kisi.

Or, as I mentioned before, the reverend Clancy. Check it out. It’s a real gem.

And just to round it off:Churchill’s ancient bird widow.

cough…

Boy was I in a foul mood this morning. I had this creeping fear that the Lab would be double-booked, so I hurried over to a computer to check one last time that my name was on the plan. For some odd reason, the website was not showing anything at all– no calendar or anything.
Well, my fears were groundless, needless to say, but it sure made me uptight.

But having class with my little guys pretty much always picks me up. So I took some pictures of the little buggers today.
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A few neato links for the pc-pool.
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I don’t care what the stiffs say; I thought it was the coolest thing said all year.
Yee haw.

“When the keepers found her she vocally responded — it was almost a ‘thank goodness you’re here
‘.”

It’s awfully cold outside. Minus 10 C at the moment. But I had to brave the cold to get a few pretty pictures.
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This week: Classes Mo. 4. DS, Mi. 6. & 7. DS meet in BZW 251.
L2 (Mo. 6. DS) Listening comprehension test.

Yay! Some good samaritan turned in my passport.

Oh, by the way: I lost my passport. Where or when exactly I do not know. It was sometime between the 29th o’ December and the following week, when I noticed it missing.

Some brave soul turned it in to the Einwohneramt. They apparently don’t have my address anymore, which is odd. They should have asked the Finanzamt or the GEZ for that matter. So they called Berlin and asked if they knew my whereabouts. There, the embassy said that I was probably taking a world tour seeing as all one needs to leave the country is a library card… So then Dresden sent my PP to the consulate in Laipzsch, where some brave diplomat looked up my name in the Dresden phonebook and called me.