Fire hazard

You know how I told you about the laptop shutting itself down? Yeah, I found out why. It turns out that my poor little power converter can’t really keep up with it. The thing practically started smoking today after about 4 hours of me sitting here typing. I guess 4 hours may have been a little excessive anyway, but I’ve got almost all the pictures labeled and in the index.
Gah, that stressed me out. Before that I was doing ok. Tiff and I wandered around tonight, taking some beautiful pictures and generally having a nice time out. We have 20 Euro to make it the next 3 days, but we should be ok. It’s just going to be cereal for dinner a time or two.
My roommate left today. Apparently he told me this last night while I was typing away, but I didn’t catch it. Tiff said I gave him the “yeah, uh-huh” treatment. I must have, which makes me feel terrible! But he didn’t seem too bothered by it, he left a nice little note this morning. I hope that wasn’t just politeness. He’s one of only 4 Germans I know, and I was enjoying getting along with him. Bah, sometimes the computer just sucks up your soul, doesn’t it?
The flat is mine for about the next month, which is kinda cool. I wonder if I can eat all the food that got left here.
Our German 105 class was interesting. Andreas, our teacher, is a tall blonde man who might be thirty. He speaks very good English, and has a smirk that suggests he finds his entire situation entirely amusing. He very well might. He just spent a year teaching in Poland, but majored in English (the language, not the discipline) and German (like our “English” major this time) before that. Now he’s studying international relations or some such fancy term. Like I said, he seems amused by it.
He gave us a little quiz over German culture, just to see how much we know. We all bombed terribly. I think Tiff did the best with 6/10 right. I got half. Most of the others looked totally clueless. Most of the questions were history related, as most of the class will be. After all, culture is just a reaction to history and circumstances. That’s my take on it, anyway. Andreas seems to think so too.
I’m getting off here before the adapter overheats again. Tiff forgot her camera cord, so we’re replacing that tomorrow. We’re also touring the Altes Rathaus and going to class, plus I hope to register for my internet access tomorrow. I think I figured out all the information for my registration. It was all in German, but it looks like they want my MAC address for my wireless card and something like a MAC address for my network card (do network cards have MAC addresses too?) and then I have to go through the gateway for the dorm. Maybe I’ll figure it out.
The converter’s buzzing like a fish aquarium filter, I’m out of here.