just a little rant

Elvis spent this morning's bus ride giving an earful to a bunch of American businessmen/women about his life on the other side of the wall. Tiff had previously mentioned that he sounded like he had some Russian influence, she was right. I didn't catch all the details, but Russia was mentioned more than once in his rather lengthy discourse.
The poor Americans looked utterly terrified of him.
They didn't strike me as the brightest crayons in the box anyway, though. They were loudly discussing how rude the Germans had been to them yesterday, seemingly oblivious to the fact that most Germans on the bus can speak and understand English fairly well. When they got off the bus and started heading for their conference they made it to the middle of campus before realizing they didn't know where they were going.
I hope to God we don't look that lost often.
Tiff thinks I'm being too harsh on them. Maybe so. I have a low tolerance for people who get paid millions to look lost at conferences. Then again, I'm pretty put off by the business world in general. It's just the artsy-liberal locked up inside me. I'll try and keep it at bay.
We have a German test on Monday. I'm really not ready for it. We've been drilled with volumes of vocabulary, most of which has slipped right back out of my mind. I'm absorbing the grammar with a little more success, but not much. It's going to be a long weekend of study, which isn't going to combine well with our alledged trip to the black forest. That's still fuzzy anyway, though. We may just tag along with the group to wherever they decide to go (Munich was mentioned again).
I'm not going to stress about it. I'm just having a nice time just being here, and hopefully not looking too stupid while I am.