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.

gusthaus

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.)

Hey unamericans -- Whedonesque had some entry (which I can no longer find) about Buffy and Angel "character" dvds -- it looked like they were sets of dvds with episodes of BVTS or Angel featuring specific characters.

I don't know whether this is really of interest to anyone -- but they are apparently in existence or will be soon.

Also, Angel Season 5 Region 2 won't be out 'til 2005.

(I hope Region 1 won't have to wait to get it -- I had suspected that we'd get season 5 in Feb. 2005, but if region 2 isn't getting it 'til then - - who knows?)

t quashes a suspicion that Nilly has been at the espresso, again

When it comes down to being a romantic place for the beginning of a relationship, Switzerland does not suck.

Oh, you have to get used to people all around you hocking up German like so many cats with hairballs all day long. There is nothing to be done about that. The scenery, though, and a certain centered geniality on the part of almost everyone you meet, makes up for that.

Today was a walking tour of Bern, followed by elaborate dining. Now comes the sleeping.