Leuven today, Prague tomorrow

Since returning from the Netherlands over the weekend, and then watching the brutality of the Dutch national team on Sunday, I’ve been having a hankering to watch Mel Gibson films, especially the Mad Max trilogy.  These were old favorites from childhood and remain so into adulthood.  Incidentally, whenever I go to the Netherlands, especially the Hague, I always end up with an itch to watch or read something apocalyptic…

Anyway, tomorrow I head off to Prague for two months.  I’ll be interning with Radio Liberty, otherwise known as Radio Free Europe from its communist-fighting days.  As much as I intrinsically like Leuven, I’m welcoming the temporary change of scenery.  I need to be somewhere more metropolitan and older to recharge.  As to the internship, I’m actually not sure what I’ll be doing exactly, but whatever I end up doing, I’ll try to take it easy, get my groove back after what has been a very rocky year and a half in Europe.

And I’m also reliably informed that Czech women are beautiful.  I’ll soon be able to scientifically verify this.  ;-)

No rest for the weary

This past week: chaos in Southern Kyrgyzstan — quite possibly the second largest story this year for neweurasia after, of course, the revolution in said country — Russian philosophy exam postponed to next week, massive Metaxology/philosophy of God exam on Friday, working on an editorial for Transitions Online today and tomorrow, and also studying Russian philosophy tomorrow.

Next week: Russian philosophy exam on Tuesday, editorial for Transitions Online due on Wednesday, term paper comparing Averroes and Ockham on theology (what a dumb idea that was) due on Thursday.  If all goes well, I can deflate on Friday, unless of course Kyrgyzstan has other ideas.  And then?

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