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selenak is a German citizen and resident on my f-list/dwircle, who mercifully posts in English (merciful because I don't speak German, and I'd hate to miss her posts). Anyway, she has a very interesting take on Angela Merkel, Barack Obama and the difference between how domestic (i.e. German) media are reporting recent events differently from the US media. Because where you (the generic you) are standing when you see something happen makes a big difference to how you perceive it. It's just...neat.

I'm getting a haircut on Wednesday right after work, but my hairdresser has just moved to a new salon in a different place. I suspect she got pissed off with the owner of the old salon being over half an hour late to open up on a weekend twice in the past six months when I've been there. Which, given that I don't see my hairdresser that often, probably means the guy was chronically late pretty often and her other clients were also getting annoyed at having to wait around outside when they'd booked an appointment for a specific time. But she doesn't (yet?) have any interaction with the till at the new salon, so I have to bring cash rather than paying on debit or credit. MUST REMEMBER TO GET CASH OUT ON TUESDAY.

I had to do fucking algebra yesterday at work. ALGEBRA! I actually didn't completely suck at algebra (just mostly), but I still hated it. Geometry I completely sucked at. The problem with things like reading and writing always having come easily for me as a child was that whenever I ran into something hard, something I wasn't naturally good at (like math), I would get very flustered. Also, I had very poor study skills.

How are other people doing on this non-rainy Saturday morning? Well, it's only barely still morning here, so maybe I should say afternoon. And I have f-listers/dwircle members in Australia and New Zealand, and I don't even know what the DATE is there right now, let alone the time of day.