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I am here in Europa. Flights were not a problem. Once I got into Zurich, that was another story. Three problems with Switzerland:

  1. They speak too many languages, mostly German, so I cannot communicate worth shit.
  2. They use Swiss Francs instead of Euros.
  3. WiFi is sparse at best. Thus, I am journaling in addition to blogging.

God, typing on these foreign keyboards is a bitch. They need to switch the y and z letters back.

Everyone dresses very well here, and the women are gorgeous. I mean American women might as well turn their keys and start acting like men in comparison.

I have seen three Starbucks in Zurich thus far. One was three stories tall and it was packed! These people are seriously lining up to pay six bucks for a latté. Ridiculous.

I mostly ran around today taking pictures. I discovered the local university on accident. I think I have seen most of what I want to see out of Zurich and think I will head southwest to Interlaken tomorrow -- a little detour before Milan. I will post when I can. I miss you all.

- Paolo

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I woke up early today to finish reading the final Harry Potter book before leaving for work.

I had to. I was just too close to the end to not finish it before my trip. No spoilers here. I say to those of you who are in Harry Potter denial: You are depriving yourself of the greatest literary series of modern times. Classifying the series as "children's books" or "fantasy" is blasphemous. Harry Potter is THE TRUTH.

Now I need to finish photocopying and packing before I apparate (via Contiental Airlines) to Zurich.

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Scary thought of the day: Matt will be teaching math and computer science to middle school students.

Congratulations, China. American education has taken its final blow, and you now have the opportunity to dominate the world economy. Americans will slowly devolve into neanderthals under Matt's supervision over the next fifty years.

I just got an email from my bank and I can withdraw money in Chinese Yuan already. This should have been a sign...

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Paolo's BIG Freakin' Weekend

It's my last weekend before I'm off to the motherland, aka Italy, to get lost for a few weeks. Am I slightly freaking out? Yes. Am I distracting myself with lots of activities, only to feed procrastination? Yes.

I probably should have started shopping for travel items yesterday, but I instead opted to have dinner with my cousin in Monroe and get a sneak preview of the new Common Market album. Both the pasta and album were quite tasty.

Tonight I'm heading south to Tacoma for band practice and a little socializing. Tomorrow the band is playing a 25th wedding anniversary party (Yes, some older folks actually like rocking out to us) and I'm going to get a round of golf in before playing another show at Hell's Kitchen that night. We're playing with a band called Point Defiance that recently released a crossover single with Snoop Dogg, though I doubt the big D-O double G will be making an appearance. Tacoma's too ghetto.

Sunday I might be heading to EMP during the day with Serg and have some dinner plans before spending most of the evening packing. That gives me Monday night to finish up packing/shopping/researching/practicing toddler-level Italian. I'm heading to Scott's right after work on Tuesday and he's making the ultimate sacrifice of getting me to the airport by 5:30 a.m. on Wednesday to catch my flight.

Did you need to know all of this? No. Did I need to list this out to maintain my own sanity? Yes. Thanks for being an audience, and Happy Friday.