Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 08:22:48 PDT
From: nathaniel finley
Subject: the days are really, really long here

no, really, the sun didn't finally set all the way until midnight the other night...and it wakes up at five. that's a really, really long day to me. I'm back in Heidelberg, returned from Spain last week, but have been swamped with work and haven't been able to get any mail out.

Spain was incredible. Man have I got a beautiful family there. The girls are just the most incredible things that I've ever seen, and we all had a blast. I hated to leave, but alas, work called...
well, other things called, too. I've made some pretty good friends here, kind of an interesting little gang, we make (not a real gang, for those of you literal readers). And the most beautiful one is the one with the blonde hair, blue eyes, and of so sweet lips. Ah, Ich bin verliebt (that's the moment before love, if I haven't already told you guys). For my birthday she took me to a ballet! Can you believe that? It was tremendous, let me tell you, it was bigger than big, it was huge...

So I think I'll be staying in Heidelberg for a little bit longer, may not leave until I absolutely have to, except for a couple of small trips. Scheide, because I wanted to spend more than a week in Berlin. What do you do? Women drive men to realize that even the most well conceived plans are only tentative...
School work is great, for those of you who care to know about it. I'm typing up half of it as I write this (once again, not this very minute), and then I've got another month to finish things up. Then it's party time...we're going to take a week or two in Holland, though, in July, so I've really got less time than I think I do.

Nothing else of signifance has happened that I can remember. Helmut Kohl is in a lot of trouble, Italy and France are playing in the Euro cup final on Sunday, and Tom Cruise's face is everywhere around here, from MI-2. anybody seen it? I've seen so many posters of him that I've developed a sub-conscious impulse to go watch the thing...I didn't even like the first one...but, hey, why should I miss the chance to see the world's favorite hero flex his muscles? so sexy...

as for the man laying at the door, with the woman deciding whether to answer it or get the phone, her indecisiveness cost him 10% brain damage, which interfered with the proper functioning of both thumbs and both big toes (I bet you didn't know those parts of the body where all controlled by the same part of the brain, did you), as well as loss of feeling in his left butt cheek. too bad. That'll teach him, though, don't go walking around certain parts of Potsdam with a mohawk and a big red anarchy sign, not even if he is 87 years old.
tschüs,

'thaniel