Sausage or Pepperoni?

One in 3 people in America are overweight. Didn't everyone use to think all Europeans were pretty thin? Maybe just the French. Anyway, I just saw on tv that one in 5 Germans is overweight. They just had a little report about a woman, who at 262 kg., had to be rescued from her home by a team of firemen who compared her weight to that of a small car. She couldn't move and basically just looked like a head on a big, round ball. The reason so many Germans are now overweight? The same as in America...fast food, junk food, video games, general laziness... Who knows. But it did make me re-think my idea to have some chips with my sandwich! Maybe I'll forget when I get hungrier and go ahead, though.

I had my extremely hard-to-follow music history course today. The professor is a typical smart academic who mumbles with his hand over his mouth and has absolutely no order to his lecture. It is really annoying and I'm tempted to not go anymore since I probably don't need the credit; at this point I'm taking it for "fun" and to have it on my transcripts, which, in the German college system is just a book where you hand write in your classes and your prof. gives you a hand-written grade or Pass/Fail.

Then I was originally supposed to babysit/teach English to the little girl, but the parents pushed that to Friday. I just got a text message from my oboe friend from the orchestra I played in this summer. She just moved to Berlin and wants to get together. That'll be fun. I also got a call today from a lady who called in response to my ad online to tutor English. Her 8th grade son is getting a D in English and his mom wants him to get help. So they're coming to my apartment on Sat. morning.

Today has been a slow day, but that's okay because the rest of the week is very full, including our studio's concent at a nursing home this Sat. I have to practice and get ready for that. And I have a lesson tomorrow night at 7pm (groan) which means I'll miss my evening line-up of American trash tv including "Desperate Housewives." Okay, okay, it won't kill me, and to be honest, the shows aren't even that great, but it's kind of fun to watch them.

And I talked called David and seems as if his birthday weekend was tame and under control. Thadda boy...or is that just what he told me? He has met a lot of people and is having a good time at college so far. Those are fun years. Staying up chatting with floormates...ordering pizza at midnight... Oh, and what was I saying about gaining weight? Luckily I lost most of the freshman 15... Do a few "Master's lbs." count?