I am still sick, but feeling much better today, so I decided I would write about the Incubus concert. I met up with Susi and Andrea at Marienplatz Monday night and we took the subway to Freimann. The concert took place at the Zenith, which is really in the middle of nowhere. Anyway, we got there and waited around for an hour or so. Next time I go to a concert I think I’ll just show up 15 minutes before it starts. Anyway, the supporting band was The Duke Spirit. They were alright, nothing special though.

Incubus started playing at around 2115 I think. They were really excellent. Put on an amazing live show, I had a good time. We were sort of in the front but to the side, which was fine, though I moved a little further to the side because people were crushing me. Anyway, yeah, good show. The only thing is, they played only for about 1hr 20 mins. I had expected a little more, and so had everyone else. We were all a bit disappointed at the end. Now that I know why they cut the show short, I can understand, I just wish they had said something: Mike (the guitarist) has Carpal Tunnel and he was in so much pain he could not play anymore, and they actually canceled all concerts after Munich until mid-May. Now I feel really lucky I got to see them and not have another concert canceled that I wanted to go to (remember Snow Patrol?).

They played: Quicksand, A Kiss to Send Us Off, Wish You Were Here, Have You Ever, Anna Molly, Paper Shoes, When It Comes, Redefine (remix), Drive, Earth to Bella, Under My Umbrella, Light Grenades, Love Hurts, Sick Sad Little World, Jam (Jose, Ben, Kil for 3-4 min), Megalomaniac.

So yeah, I’d go see Incubus live again any day.

Speaking of, if you go to Incubus’ myspace, and go through the concerts, you will find one saying

You may wonder, yes and your point is?; well Neubiberg is the suburb of Munich that I live in (when I am at home). June 22nd is also one day before my birthday and a Saturday. Sounds to good to be true? Unfortunately, you are right. The Southside Festival was moved to Neuhausen ob Eck (wherever that is) years ago. I wonder why Incubus haven’t gotten that memo yet, but unfortunately we haven’t had it in town in years. Snow Patrol would also be there… Oh well… Can’t have everything, and I guess having Incubus and Snow Patrol essentially playing in my backyard is a little too much to ask for, right?!

Anyway, I found a video someone made at the concert at YouTube, and thought I would post it here. I decided not to take my camera so I didn’t take any pictures myself. You can see it here.

So now my entire family is sick. My dad had been home all week, and my mom was not feeling well either, and since today I’ve joined the club.

I slept like crap last night, have been having a headache since then, and this morning threw up a couple of times, I could not even keep down herbal tea. So off to the doctor I go. Now I am on antibiotics for a week.

I have been able to keep down the medication and the water I drank along with it, as well as the pretzel I am eating right now (so far anyway), so I am hoping I will get better soon. I slept all day and I just hope the antibiotics kick in quickly because I think I am pretty dehydrated already as I have not been drinking much the past two days (unintentionally, I just realized it last night,and today two glasses of water.

I guess I am glad I am sick here and not in Heidelberg, because here I get more attention (when I am sick I really like having mom & dad around to care for me), but at the same time, I probably got this from my dad, so who knows if I would be sick if I wasn’t here.Plus they are sick too, so they cannot really spoil me as much as I would like.

Anyway, I wanted to wrote about a few things but that will have to wait till I feel better. Just so you know I haven’t dropped off the face of the earth.

I am in Munich now… Anyway, first, the best news of the week month:

My roommate is moving out!

(Yes this totally requires centered and bolded text!)
Yesterday when I went upstairs to my neighbor’s because she is taking care of my plants while I am gone she told me she just received a letter from my roommate’s parents (since she is not yet 18, they signed the rental agreement), that they are canceling the rental agreement and she will move out on March 31st! Seriously, couldn’t have gone any better, this was exactly what I was hoping for! When I get back to Heidelberg, she will be gone! No more annoying rude nasty roommate!
Now I just hope the next one will be nicer, but then can it really get any worse? Anyway, I had to share this happy news with y’all! You guys know how long I had been waiting for this!

Now back to what I’ve been up to in the past week…

I got to hang out with most of my friends before I left which was great. Wednesday Sheela came over and we had lunch together and watched Volver. In the evening I met up with Caty and we had her birthday present dinner at Mandy’s. Last time at Mandy’s for me for a month. I love that place so much, it has definitely become my favorite place to eat out at. Thursday I worked and in the evening went out for drinks with Bea. Her boyfriend and some others joined us a little later, and it was a great time! Had more alcohol & stayed longer than planned, which resulted in me only getting 4 hours of sleep and oversleeping by one hour. (This is where I would like to say more about that, but I’ll save that for a private entry which I will write later.)
After work, I met up with Sheela for lunch, and then we went to H&M. I ended up buying this sweater in this really pretty blue and a brown top. I realized I should have gotten a €5 voucher when I signed up for the H&M newsletter but I didn’t, and I also realized that after I paid. So I figured I’d print out the voucher and come back the next day, to return what I bought and buy it again.

Friday afternoon I had three loads of laundry to do and pack and when I got home someone had just put a load in the washing machine on some super-slow program that would take over two hours. So I decided I might as well go back to H&M now, so that’s what I did. I finally got started on the laundry at like 1800 or even a bit later, and needless to say (at least to those who know how slow German washers and driers are) I wasn’t done with washing, packing, and taking a shower until 0400. Another night of only 4.5 hours of sleep, here I come!

Saturday I worked in the morning, came home, and checked train times online. I was going to take the train at 1514, but turns out that apparently on the weekend there is no train at 1514. So I ended up taking the one at 1714 and was home at 2130. Meh. I had plans to meet up with Brandon and a friend of his (who are in Munich this weekend), needless to say, that didn’t work out. But I guess I can meet up with them in Heidelberg when I’m back there.

I had been cold all day yesterday, probably because my body was really exhausted (I am actually surprised about how well I was still doing). So last night I finally got to catch up on sleep. I slept 11 hours I think. In newly washed sheets. Mmmm. I love the smell of detergent in sheets.

Anyway, today I am meeting up with Julia to see the Andreas Gursky exhibition at the Haus der Kunst (House of Art). My co-worker told me about that, and I remember seeing one of his photographs at the MoMA (I think) in New York City and I really liked that so I wanted to see his exhibition. There is also an exhibition on a Japanese artist, Yayoi Kusama, which looks … interesting (apparently she mostly does art involving polka-dots, heh). But seeing as we’ll be paying for both exhibitions, we might as well check that one out as well. After that, I will stop by my brother’s on the way home, to drop off some things and get the Incubus ticket he bought for me.

Speaking of which, I decided to go see Incubus tomorrow even though I was going to have to go by myself. My brother got the ticket for me on Friday. Later that same day, Susi sent me a message saying she was now going after all, because Andrea won two tickets, and she was taking Susi. So now I don’t have to go by myself after all. This all ended up working out really great! Soooo… yay, I get to see Incubus tomorrow night!!!

Today at work one of my co-workers showed us this book - can’t remember the title but it was some Latin book with a German translation, a normal-sized hardcover - that costs €464. No, that is not a typo. The book really costs that much!

You’d think that for that price it would at least be hand-written or in gold letters or something, but it really just looks like a normal book.

You’d also think that no one would actually buy that book. Well, our customer actually ordered two copies.

That is €928! For two books! Or a pretty nice vacation. Or a new laptop. Or a lot of other pretty awesome stuff. All lying on my co-worker’s desk in the shape of two books. Madness!

But I guess it is still a bargain compared to the Codex Leicester by Leonardo DaVinci, which cost Bill Gates $30,800,000. ;)