In medias res

And we begin my epic tale in the middle of things. To be perfectly honest, sloth and booze have prevented me from posting any pictures up until this point. While my lady has been laboring intently over her paper, I have been either sleeping or lounging, so not much to report. However, she should be finishing her manifesto this evening and we can enjoy the rest of the week unencumbered. As I suppose it is a shame that I have been sleeping until 1pm and then not seeing the other side of the door until the early evening, you have my word that these next few days will be far more involved. Now, on to some random pictures that I have taken.

Here is little Ali, dutifully toiling away.


Here's a nice view across Lake Zurich


Alex in the Niederdorf


While walking by the lake, we saw this guy balancing rocks. He sometimes took minutes and sometimes just a few seconds to balance the rocks on each other. He just used rocks that he could find. It was very neat.


In such a liberal place, he had to make a Che Guevara rock. Fight the power.


Just some folks hanging out by the lake on a beautiful day.


Yours truly, strolling by the Lake


Positively breathtaking view of the Alps in the distance, to the South.



Cool pic of the lake at dusk. That'll do it for now. Be back later today or tomorrow, with hope.

Well, I'm here at least

Arrived very early yesterday - 6:30 AM to be exact. Went straight home and took a nap. Lovely. Since this is my second time here, I am in no rush to get out and do stuff, I'm just happy to be on vacation. We've just been chillin' in the cut, not doing much. Well, I'm not doing much, Alex is writing a 15 page research paper on the abuses at Abu Ghraib. Trust me, it's as whimsical and life-affirming as it sounds. Anyway we celebrated my arrival by going out and getting royally wasted. The lounge we went to had bad music so we went to a place called Outback (not the steakhouse, but an Australian themed bar) and drank Fosters, which I've heard they don't really drink in Australia anyway. Then we went to a place called Zodiac that apparently is the hotspot for the, um, younger crowd in Zurich. We were easily the oldest people in the place, but it was fun nonetheless. All in all, a good night. Well played by all. We had a crowd of one American (yours truly), one Swiss (Alexandra), one German, and two Brits. Very multinational. Trying to get the second day underway, more later.

Oh right

Must have taken a couple forget-me-nows. The whole reason that I wrote that last post was to begin my diary of my trip back to Switzerland. Friday, March 23, 2007 I depart on my second journey to that kick ass town. So, stay tuned, mayhem will ensue.

I'm back. Booyakasha.

Seriously, who has the time to write a blog. Not me, obviously, considering that it has been nearly 4 months to the day that I wrote my last post. I guess the whole point of this thing was to get a rolling start by writing about my trip and then continue to write things. However, every one has a blog, and just about all of those people are really self-important pricks about it. I don't give a shit about your college football picks for this week. Oh, you're live-blogging something? Great, I don't care. I understand that it's like the Bruce Campbell Old Spice commercial - to get experience you have to have experience and you don't have it, you can't get it. All that myth of Sisyphus, perpetual motion, paradoxic bullshit. I understand that, but if you're not Deadspin or someone else good, get bent. I guess that even has a strange ironic twist to it because why would you even bother reading this when I'm just some nobody? Exactly. They say that the average number of readers of a blog is one. That's right, one. That means that there are some that have none, which I guess means that the author doesn't count. And since I am the only one reading this, I will celebrate my return however I please. Just like this. So, I'm back like Jay-Z motherfuckers.