fun with self-containment!

since i am usually alone here in vienna, i am going crazy have found myself inventing really fun games. these games are so good i might pitch them as game shows when i get back in the US.

1) Welcher Haltestelle? U-Bahn Ausgabe!
In this game you stare at people on the subway and try to guess which stop they are going to get off at. Tweedy fellow with an umbrella and a copy of Der Standard? Rathaus. Pair of skinny tweenagers with black hair and BIPA bags? That's easy: Johnstrasse! Lady wearing at least one piece of clothing made of fur, looking uncomfortable on public transport? Operring! This is a really fun game. I swear.

2) War Time? Dinner Time! (alternately titled "Meal or No Meal?")
This game can only be played on Sundays or any other day past 8pm, which is when 99% of grocery stores are closed. If I have failed to plan accordingly, I get to come up with really creative and Depression Era-inspired meals (foreseeably a pretty good skill to come home with). Usually I am equipped with something along the lines of: old bread, rice, a few carrots, half a head of iceberg lettuce, some peanuts, unidentified gelatinous meat products given to me by Monika, sparkling water, and chocolate. Points awarded for presentation, taste, and absence of next-day salmonella poisoning. Points deducted if bouillon cubes are used (too easy).

3) Where'd That Ant Come From?
For reasons completely indiscernible to me, I will occasionally find ants in my apartment. Not in the kitchen, where one would normally find a wayward ant, but in strange places - like on a lipstick tube or in my sock drawer. I'm not very good at WTACF yet, though I am good at a related game, entitled "Bug Squasher 5000!"

ummmmmm yeah. tonight i think i am heading to a concert with meaghan. hopefully also meeting up with a pair of great old friends from tucson who are, by a stroke of amazing luck, both in vienna right now.

i leave you with this very self explanatory photo.


xoxoxo