Cunday --- Sweet Dreams Edition

Fife and Drum Band

Ladies and gentlemen...



... THIS...

... is Williamsburg.

Caturday

Yup, we are somehow making progress with Weezer, the dick-ish orange cat.

Neo has been sweet from day one...



... and just seems to become sweeter every day.

For the Love of God!

In case you don't understand sign language, the message of the guy is "don't masturbate".

Weekend at Home

Things are still quite busy here (teaching two/three courses is no walk in the park!), so we are happy with a weekend spent on the couch with a cat and/or book. The weather here is hot and humid, but lately, it has been cooling off a bit, so we get to enjoy our screened in porch.

Our (temporary) house is awesome!

It is located 100 meters from the Math department, and it is set back from the road a bit, so that all we see from our porch are trees, squirrels, birds (many red cardinals and humming birds!), and the occasional deer.

I also love the way it looks inside. Not very practical if we have guests, since all bedrooms open onto the living room, but for the two of us, it is perfect.

Fortunately, we get to stay here until the end of November, because the shipment of our household stuffs has not been going very smoothly so far. Or maybe I should say it has not been going at all. After repeated emails asking for an update, we were told last week that our shipment has only recently made it to the UK. At this speed (8 weeks from Saarbrucken to London), it does not seem unlikely that our belongings will make it here by the time I go up for tenure...

Home

It's been a while since we had some honest homemade foodz! We visited multiple supermarkets, finding fault with every single one, but eventually we had enough ingredients to at least make this simple pasta.



Also, we have housemates now. Pictured above is the sweet one: Neo.



The red cat is Weezer. He is a bit of a dick.

Here is the start of Anke's email to our landlords today:

Subject: an update from Neo, Weezer, Frans and Anke

Hi Bill and Linda,

We hope you had a good trip to Rome, and that you are having a great time!

Neo: I miss you very much, but the new humans are working out well. I
spend my time eating, sleeping, pooping, and being adorable and getting
lots of attention. So I am not much different from my usual self! The
new humans also made me play with a mouse on a piece of string, but that
was not really my thing. Bye now, I am off to have a wash!

Weezer: Unlike traitor Neo, I have bravely tried to defend the house
against these two intruders. At first, I thought they would surely leave
in a couple of hours, like they did last time. But no, they even had the
audacity to go up to your bedroom. You will be proud to learn that I
confronted them head on, and sunk my teeth into their legs.
Unfortunately, they still did not leave. Whenever I try to attack now,
they talk to me in a deep and loud voice. I have no idea what they are
saying, but I don't like it, so I now keep a low profile. They try to
curry favors with me, by playing with me, or giving me cat treats (oh, I
love those!), but I do my best to stay true to you, and keep my grumpy
demeanor.

Anke & Frans: [...]

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You guys get the picture, we are having a blast!