I just thought it would be fitting for today to post this. From http://www.paulsadowski.com/birthday.asp

Your date of conception was on or about 30 September 1982 which was a Thursday.You were born on a Thursday
under the astrological sign Cancer.
Your Life path number is 5.

Life Path Compatibility:
You are most compatible with those with the Life Path numbers 1, 5 & 7.
You should get along well with those with the Life Path numbers 3 & 9.
You may or may not get along well with those with the Life Path number 8.
You are least compatible with those with the Life Path numbers 2, 4, 6, 11 & 22.

The Julian calendar date of your birth is 2445508.5.
The golden number for 1983 is 8.
The epact number for 1983 is 16.
The year 1983 was not a leap year.

Your birthday falls into the Chinese year beginning 2/13/1983 and ending 2/1/1984.
You were born in the Chinese year of the Pig.

Your Native American Zodiac sign is Woodpecker; your plant is Wild Rose.

You were born in the Egyptian month of the season of Poret (Emergence - Fertile soil).

The date of Easter on your birth year was Sunday, 3 April 1983.
The date of Orthodox Easter on your birth year was Sunday, 8 May 1983.
The date of Ash Wednesday (the first day of Lent) on your birth year was Wednesday 16 February 1983.
The date of Whitsun (Pentecost Sunday) in the year of your birth was Sunday 22 May 1983.
The date of Whisuntide in the year of your birth was Sunday 29 May 1983.
The date of Rosh Hashanah in the year of your birth was Thursday, 8 September 1983.
The date of Passover in the year of your birth was Tuesday, 29 March 1983.
The date of Mardi Gras on your birth year was Tuesday 15 February 1983. As of 6/23/2006 4:31:58 AM EDT
You are 23 years old.
You are 276 months old.
You are 1,200 weeks old.
You are 8,401 days old.
You are 201,628 hours old.
You are 12,097,711 minutes old.
You are 725,862,718 seconds old.

Your age is the equivalent of a dog that is 3.2880626223092 years old. (Life’s just a big chewy bone for you!)

There are 365 days till your next birthday
on which your cake will have 24 candles.

Those 24 candles produce 24 BTUs,
or 6,048 calories of heat (that’s only 6.0480 food Calories!) .
You can boil 2.74 US ounces of water with that many candles.

In 1983 there were approximately 3.6 million births in the US.
In 1983 the US population was approximately 226,545,805 people, 64.0 persons per square mile.
In 1983 in the US there were 2,444,000 marriages (10.5%) and 1,179,000 divorces (5%)
In 1983 in the US there were approximately 1,990,000 deaths (8.8 per 1000)
In the US a new person is born approximately every 8 seconds.
In the US one person dies approximately every 12 seconds.

Your birthstone is Alexandrite
The Mystical properties of Alexandrite

Alexandrite can assist one in centering the self, reinforcing self-esteem, and augmenting ones ability to experience joy.

Some lists consider these stones to be your birthstone. (Birthstone lists come from Jewelers, Tibet, Ayurvedic Indian medicine, and other sources)

Pearl, Moonstone, Opal

Your birth tree is

Fig Tree, the Sensibility Very strong, a bit self-willed, independent, does not allow contradiction or arguments, loves life, its family, children and animals, a bit of a butterfly, good sense of humour, likes idleness and laziness, of practical talent and intelligence.

There are 185 days till Christmas 2006!
There are 198 days till Orthodox Christmas!

The moon’s phase on the day you were
born was waxing gibbous.

I don’t think I had mentioned it before, but today i started an internship at the DAI (German-American Institute). I will be working there one afternoon (four hours a week) for a longer time period (maybe two semesters, or longer), and I’ll be doing culture management and PR (starting with culture/event management). It is unpaid which is why I prefer to do it long-term with few hours each week. I am still working at the bookstore though and I enjoy that as well. The project I am working on at the DAI is an essay contest for high school students which will be held in November. I am so happy I get this chance because it is a field I could picture myself in after graduation.

Classes are good. My Spanish test went alright. I made some stupid mistakes but I can work on those. There are only about four weeks left till finals and it’s hard to believe this semester is coming to an end already. It feels like it just started yesterday but the summer semester always seems short, while the winter semester drags on forever.

I have been reading a lot more lately. I discovered the library here and it is an inexpensive (free) way to get books, so I have read Paul Auster’s Leviathan which I had mentioned in my last entry, and Paulo Coelho’s Veronika Decides to Die, and yesterday I just started Wally Lamb’s She’s Come Undone. I also read Coelho’s The Alchemist but I bought that for myself. I haven’t read that many books within a month in a long time. There are still several books I am in the middle of, and have been for months. I want to finally finish those and then read the other ones I own but haven’t read yet.

I have been following the world cup as much as I could, though I haven’t seen that many matches. I actually missed Germany’s match against Ecuador because I had to run some errands. I went to the grocery store as well, and wow, I’ve never seen it that empty, there was one other lady in there. Haha. I did see the match against Poland though, watched it on campus, and it was simply amazing. Great match and the atmosphere was awesome! I was so excited when we won because this match definitely was nerve-wrecking.

Tomorrow is my birthday, and I am having a picnic with friends at the river. The weather forecast says sun and 0% precipitation chance so I hope we’ll be lucky. It would be a great way to celebrate my champagne birthday (turning 23 on the 23rd). All my friends except one will be there. I am excited about that!

Next weekend I am going home to Munich for the weekend because my brother is graduating from high school. Was about time, took him long enough, haha! Seriously, I am proud of him. He seems to have grown up a lot lately, we get along so much better, and he and his girlfriend seem pretty serious which is good for them. :) His graduation ceremony is on Friday, and on Saturday I am going to celebrate my birthday with my friends in Munich. Yesterday I thought about what to do, and I think we’ll be going out to an Indian restaurant by my house. I love Indian food, and it’ll be a nice change from what I usually eat here (American or Thai/Chinese when I eat out).

Today I got several DVDs from the DAI library. Since I am an intern, membership is free for me, which is great because it gives me a chance to finally see a bunch of movies I’ve always wanted to see but never did. I got Stepford Wives, Honey, Spanglish and Hotel Rwanda and I can keep them until Tuesday, so I will have quite a few movies to watch this weekend.

By the way, I just yesterday got my laptop back. Unbelievable, isn’t it?! They didn’t even find the error, though they assume it’s my (American) wireless card causing compatibility issues with my (German) laptop. I’ll see if that’s true, right now I am using a USB wireless adapter my neighbors gave me. So if the error doesn’t return, I guess that was actually the issue.

Anyway, I am going to end this here now. It’s gotten long enough.