New York, New York... Our hostel has internet access, yay. So I can keep you posted on all news.

We flew over with Iberia...our plane almost could not land because of the fog and we were scared we would not survive. But we did and now it is for the sniper to finish us...

In New York everything is so expensive you have to give your firstborn child to get some orange juice. Ulisch and me are seriously considering giving up smoking when they tried to charge us 8 dollars for a packet of cigarettes. Luckily we brought Gauloises en masse because we heard about the cigarette prices beforehand.

And we need all the money we have, because we have been spending money left and right...today we went shopping-crazy..oh my god. Tomorrow we plan on going to go to Macy's which will bring us certain ruin, I bet.

So..tomorrow Ulisch and me are leaving for USA. We do not know whether we will survive the trip or will be killed by the sniper / drown in floods. Anyway. We will stay for five weeks, so I guess whoever is reading this will have to wait for November.

Unless we run into an internet café on our way, that is. Then I´ll give you an update of what we´ve been up to.

I´ll see you when I see you next....

I am totally sick...close to death by sneezing. In such cases I always remember that Steven King novel...I forgot which one it was...(The Stand maybe?) where everybody dies of an awful cold. Read it and you will know how I feel at the moment. Life sucks.

When I was watching TV before I noticed something - maybe it was beginning feverish hallucinations: Ronan Keating is turning into Phil Collins. Not only does he look like him but also adapted the same "kick me in the face because my singing will make you physically ill" gestures.

Then I decided to read The Player of Games that Paul recommended. Really liked it, too (apart from the fact that SF authors always like to give their characters awkward sounding names which I hate..but I got used to them towards the end). The only downside to this ist the myriads of books Iain Banks wrote which I will want to purchase now. Thank you, Paul, for my financial ruin.