(Does it worry you to be alone)

How do I feel by the end of the day

(Are you sad because you're on your own)

No I get by with a little help from my friends,

Do you need anybody,

I need somebody to love.

Could it be anybody

I want somebody to love.

Would you believe in a love at first sight,

Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time.

What do you see when you turn out the light,

I can't tell you, but I know it's mine.

Oh I get by with a little help from my friends,

I won! I won!

In my fight to the death with Frau Schmidt (the evil psychobitch landlady), I actually WON and got my half month's rent back. Yeah!

It was really funny, she kept trying to tell me that when I went to her and said "I will be moving out on Dec. 17" that was NOT my notification of departure. I said, "What would I have to do to notify you?" She said "Well, come in here and tell me what day you are moving out." !!!Which is what I thought I did.

But she kept saying "No, when you told me you were moving out on Dec. 17 that was just you giving me the courtesy of knowing when you were leaving." This was a very confusing line of conversation for me, because I couldn't discern what "notification" meant then. So, we went in that little circle of conversation for a while, then she examined my lease contract more closely and said that something in the terms meant that I could actually get half my month back, even though I didn't really give her the "notification" she required.

The only problem is that now I have to leave on December 15, though my flight is on December 17. I don't know what I will do in the interim. I think that maybe I will go to a ski resort or something for the weekend with the 255 CHF I saved on rent.

So yesterday I found a rock-awesome job

Bored at work (which is part of the norm for me lately) I was surfing the IAESTE web pages. (IAESTE is the organization that sponsors my work permit). I found a job listing for the Moscow Aviation Institute in combustion research. Oh, how I wish I knew that existed last year or that I had the time to go to Moscow for a while. That would be awesome. But I am definitely committed to become a real human being and moving to Houston at least for a few years now. So I sent the notice to Sarah, I hope she gets to go. Then I will go visit her in Russia.. on my way to India, because I just found out that Charu (a friend of mine from high school) is getting married in India and I want to go to her wedding!