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Hiya! All is well in the land of the Pharaohs - I've now completed my first year of employment in my shiny new career. Go me!

Meanwhile, should explain that on Goodness Gracious Me they either got the actual reels of Skippy or else constructed something close using footage of kangaroos - I presumed it was the real thing. Only they had Skippy thinking out loud, with a Punjabi accent, and having an alcohol problem, and just generally being very funny.

Six AM-ish in Bern. My new apartment (above a Gasthaus, for those who know what that means) is near a bakery. The air coming through the window is probably fattening. Switzerland is all about sugar and yeast and chocolate. Poor dead Dr. Atkins' ghost haunts Switzerland, shaking his head.

Since no one wanted to advise me on the satellite TV issue, I got Sky+ (German). Go ahead and correct me.

Goodness Gracious Me was available in the States on BBCA for a while. It was not very accessable for a Yank, or anyway, for this Yank.

Hey Gus! Sounds like Switzerland is treating you very nicely.

Hey Kate! Yup. Switzerland feels a whole lot like home. As soon as I get better at the languages (my German just plain sucks, my French is more often wrong than not, and my Italian ... t shudder ), it will be a lot better.

Hmm. Reading back over that paragraph makes me guess that my English is also a little problematic. Maybe I should just point and nod.

Six AM-ish in Bern. My new apartment (above a Gasthaus, for those who know what that means)

It means you're having trouble spelling Gushaus, that's what it means.

My lazy goilfriend has finally awakened. Now we will go out on the cobblestones for a short walk to the bakery and have a nosh that would make Dr. Atkins cry. Sure, there will be rain and thunder, and the day will be a little muggy, but these are things that do not disturb two Strangers in a Strange Land. Have a smiley day, O Un-Americans.

Wow, Gus, Switzerland sounds amazing! I'm kinda jealous! Also impressed by your language abilities--even if your french and german aren't great now, you already speak a bunch of things, and I'm sure they'll be very good very soon!!

Mmm, bakery...I live above a 7-11, which is more convenient (24 hours!) but less yummy.

Just thought I'd mention for anyone who has yet to get all the Angel or Buffy DVDs: starting October 13, 2004, you can buy the complete season sets for under $60 each on ezydvd.com.au. Not sure how long it will last, or if other sites/shops will have it for the same price, so start saving your pennies and get in quick.

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Can I guess? I think this must be the dignified Swiss version of that great American invention, the Yummy Hut.

(There really is a Chinese takeout place near me called the Yummy Hut.)

Can't resist poking my UnAmerican currently-mostly-lurking head (which is like mostly-dead, in Internet meaning, I guess, because how much you're alive on the net is measured by how much you post, right? So if you mostly-lurk, then you're mostly-net-dead, but you don't need a miracle in order to get back to life - or, well, in the current state of things, with this unending paper to hand at the end of the week, maybe what I need really is a miracle. Preferably with chocolate coating (do you think they make kosher-chocolate-coating for kosher-keeping miracle-seekers?) and how can I get this sentence more convoluted and with more parenthases?).

Anyway.

All I wanted to post was: Fiona! Gus! Fay! Angus! moonlit! jimi! Fellow UnAmericans! Fellow UnUnAmericans who visit the UnAmericans thread!

There.

(I do not, however, wear any black mask, have any skill with a sword, or had built any immunity to any sort of poison. Also, none of the professors who keep giving me work has six fingers in any sort of hand.)