We are having a quiet night in. Both of us at our computers. He's buying a server and working on some programming. Me? I'm surfing the web, buying train-tickets to Berlin, doing some reading for my term-paper, and nursing a small vodka with juice.
We just had a second dinner... some ham my mom brought from Spain, some roe from IKEA, both on crackers and crisp bread. Our first dinner was at IKEA: hotdogs followed by schnitzel with fries.
Yes, we went to IKEA. We bought a wok.
He-who-dries-off-the-dishes got an unpaid sabbatical for six months and it starts in April. He is so looking forward to that. He wants to do an internship at one of our favorite restaurants. He wants to work on his projects and on other people's projects. Basically he's hoping to be able to improve his CV by working on interesting and up-to-date stuff, instead of doing boring and old stuff at work. And he'll be home most of the time. But first we're going to Berlin at the beginning of April to the Re:publica. Then we go to visit his parents for Easter. Then back home and my new semester starts about 10 days after (I've got my new schedule and I'm so excited!)
Anyway, he's already thought about how his being home most of the time will affect the relationship. He thinks we might get on each other's nerves. I don't think it will be the constant proximity. It will just be the fact that sometimes we want to be selfish or our moods clash. But that's ok. He can go to his computer-group and I can go to my mom's or the library. It'll be good. And we'll have lots of fun.
Friday, March 6, 2009
Sunday, March 1, 2009
better together
We had gone to sleep really late Friday evening (because we were talking and watching stuff on YouTube) so late in fact, that it was early Saturday morning. So we got up Saturday noon, showered, and made pizza.
Then we went back to bed and just hung out talking and surfing the web and showing each other stuff we found.
For dinner we had the rest of the pizza and a discussion based on an article I had read in the NewYorkTimes that described a possible compromise on gay-marriage for the U.S. Read it here.
And basically the question we asked ourselves was "how important to society is marriage?" And from there we moved on towards "who should be allowed to adopt children? only couples? only heterosexual couples? why not individuals? after all couples and individuals in all kinds of constellations and degrees of complication have children the natural way." In Germany people are not having enough children. So we moved on to "should the government hand out incentives for having children?" and I had this dystopian vision of a society where the government will give you a toaster for getting pregnant. And "how do you get academics to have more children without it seeming unfair?"
And now we're back to surfing the web and getting ready to go to sleep.
Conclusion: a very lazy, comfortable, bonding, companionable, interesting day.
Then we went back to bed and just hung out talking and surfing the web and showing each other stuff we found.
For dinner we had the rest of the pizza and a discussion based on an article I had read in the NewYorkTimes that described a possible compromise on gay-marriage for the U.S. Read it here.
And basically the question we asked ourselves was "how important to society is marriage?" And from there we moved on towards "who should be allowed to adopt children? only couples? only heterosexual couples? why not individuals? after all couples and individuals in all kinds of constellations and degrees of complication have children the natural way." In Germany people are not having enough children. So we moved on to "should the government hand out incentives for having children?" and I had this dystopian vision of a society where the government will give you a toaster for getting pregnant. And "how do you get academics to have more children without it seeming unfair?"
And now we're back to surfing the web and getting ready to go to sleep.
Conclusion: a very lazy, comfortable, bonding, companionable, interesting day.
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