Roll around in the awesomeness!

[exsequar]

Yesterday was pretttttty fantastic, and I'm going to tell you why!

1. I woke up epically, ridiculously sore. Like, difficult to lift myself out of bed sore. That's not the fantastic part! The fantastic part is that I'm sore because of indoor soccer and every time I think of that it makes me smile. :D
   
2. SCIENCE!!!!1!!!1!11 Science totally WORKED for me yesterday, and I got this awesome amazing result that will guide my project into truly exciting directions. I am such a nerd but this was SO happy-making. I've been feeling a little blah on the science front lately so this was a highly welcome kick in the pants. It also means I get to start doing new and exciting experiment types, which is great cause I was bored of what I was doing before! YAY SCIENCE! I had a great brainstorming session with Jason (my boss) and we have sooo many ideas. *twirls!*
   
3. DIE NATIONALMANNSCHAFT! In the past few days, this amazing book has come to light called Die Spieler which is literally 200 enormous glossy pages of photographs of MY BOYS dressed up as old 40s crime drama film characters. SERIOUSLY. THERE ARE HATS AND SUITS AND OLD MERCEDES AND PIANOS AND CAKES AND PILLOW FIGHTS AND POOLS! STRIPPING IN POOLS! Um. They might have deviated from the crime theme a little bit in favor of NAKED WET FOOTBALLERS, but I am seriously not complaining. Unffffffff. One bit that should be delightful to any girl with a beating heart is the following clip, in which Mario says "Wow wow wowwww!" about Basti and Basti declares that "This is fashion!" Yes in English!
   
   
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   The only thing that sucks is that I WANT THAT BOOK SO BADLY but it is $55 with shipping from Germany. :((( I may cave yet...
   
4. Relatedly, all of my girls at loewsmiserables! (The fan community for the German national team.) Even though the World Cup is over, the fandom rages on with so much life and laughter and delight! I have made three posts there with over 100 comments of giddy glee and gifs and awesomeness. I love that place and I love our boys. <3333 It's really cool to feel so involved in a fandom - it's been a while!
   
5. Also relatedly, my #Ger girls on Twitter! I posted on Loews asking if people wanted a Twitter support group during the World Cup about 3 weeks ago, and what resulted was this super awesome group of girls with whom I have exchanged literally THOUSANDS of Tweets. It's been a blast. I love you guys. ♥
   
6. And the best for last... I went on a date last night! :D

So I already told the story about how a barista at my favorite coffee shop offered me his number but I ended up giving mine his later and blah complicated silliness! Well, we have been on two (~three?) dates since then! :D He (Matt) called me last week and asked if I wanted to go to dinner and a movie, and so we did, and it was quite nice. We saw Winter's Bone, the Sundance festival winner - a very stark and gorgeous film, I highly recommend it. Then we got dinner and drinks and capped off the night with a stroll by the river where we hung out on a bench at 2 AM! It was quite a lovely date, but I must admit that I wasn't feeling a zing - there were a couple things about him that rubbed me the wrong way, so I was having my doubts. But then yesterday he texted me and asked if I wanted to go out for dinner, and of course I wanted to give him a second chance so I said sure, and suggested this noodle bar next to his coffee shop that he loooves but that I hadn't been to yet. So I go to the restaurant and he's not there - turns out he locked his keys in his car, WITH THE CAR RUNNING, and is waiting for AAA. *facepalm* Lolz. He was only a couple blocks away so I walked there, laughed at him, and we hung out on the grass for a while waiting for the AAA dude. It was a beautiful summer evening so I didn't really mind! Then we went to dinner, and then to my house for a bit where I gave him my Empires and Gold Motel CDs because he's totally into little indie bands and I want him to LOOOVE them, and also my Dollhouse DVDs, aaaand everything was lovely! I think we were both a lot more relaxed this time and everything was just sweet and fun and he really makes me laugh a lot. I'm definitely, definitely fond and will be seeing more of him!

Now I can tell you a lot of the reasons he's awesome, since this appears to be continuing. So he's a super experienced barista at my favorite coffee shop, which = free coffee and also he's a coffee nerd, which I find AWESOME. He got his degree in "general studies" at UMich after transferring from a couple places, and that included mostly English but also Womens Studies (!!!!) and a bunch of other random stuff. He's from a tiny town in upstate Michigan. He loves Firefly and Arrested Development and knows way too much about way too many indie bands (though he's not TOO pretentious about it). He's good friends with most of the people in the local music scene. He rooted for Germany in the World Cup (mostly because his boss is German, but still!). He smokes quite a bit of pot but is smart about it, haha. He wants to get his MFA in POETRY. I just. How is he real! I looove that he's a nerd so we speak the same language, but he's a totally different KIND of nerd than I'm used to. It's extremely refreshing to spend time with someone who isn't a scientist!

SOOOOO that's my life right now, in a rather long winded nutshell! Soccer = awesome, science = awesome, fangirls = awesome, German fussballers = awesome, and new boy = awesome.

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Comments

[scottsnbritts.livejournal.com]

by noodles bar I'm assuming Noodles & Co? And by coffee place would you mean Espresso Royale?

ALSO I WANT DIE SPIELER SO BAD.

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Oh no my dear, we are talking far more hipster! The coffee shop is Lab, which opened in March on Liberty across from Dawn Treader. It sells the Chicago coffee brand Intelligentsia and is far and away my favorite place in Ann Arbor. :D Right next door is the Tomukun noodle bar, which is a cozy Asian fusion place and it's SOOOO TASTY. Om nom nom nom nom. I imagine I will be spending a lot of time at both places, hee! You should definitely check them out if you haven't!

I PLACED MY ORDER FOR DIE SPIELER TODAY. I HAVE NO SELF-CONTROL.

...we could have a viewing-and-squealing party if you wanted? :D?

[scottsnbritts.livejournal.com]

uh yeah, I spent most of march preparing for my finals and trying super hard to get an A on a german project. It made for very few trips out for food. But yes, I'll definitely check them out!


UM. YES PLEASE.
Only it will have to wait until early September because I'm living at home for the summer. I'll be back in A2 by the 4th though! Hello first game of the season, get here now please because I'd like to pregame asap. just sayin'.

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Hee, that's okay! Lab is just so wonderful, all light wood and huge windows and so much sunlight. The boy I'm dating has longish brown hair and is quite tall, you'd recognize him right away if he was your barista. :) And one of the owners (Toby) is German! He's delightful! Basically everyone is awesome. Oh yeah and the frozen yogurt is FANTASTIC!! Fruit flavors (like lychee! om nom nom) with a fresh fruit and cereal toppings bar. Looove.

...I think they should pay me to advertise, hahaha.

Ooh, okay! We will plan on it! :D And oh man, GIMME MORE GERMANS NOW WORLD, PLEASE. I'm kind of excited to have a fellow mannschaft fan in A2, ngl. :D

[fandomonymous.livejournal.com]

Butting in to say: LYCHEE IS AMAZING. I will take lychee-flavored over just about any other fruit. You should come visit me in Florida sometime, the farmer's market here actually sells fresh ones during the summer season! SO GOOD.