Had a talk yesterday that cleared my head somewhat (thank you :) and got a phone call today (thank you, too :) and am once again open to the public. Don't want to go into details on the blog, so I'll just go about my business as usual.

Re: Winning a trip to Ireland. Apparantly, we've advanced to the Final Round of 30 Participants and they sent us a disposable camera to take pictures of us "in action". Yesterday Ulisch and me went around taking those pictures:

• Drinking coffee
  
• Playing Mensch Ärgere Dich Nicht (huge version)
  
• Sliding down a slide
  
• Lying between tulips
  
• Riding our bikes
  
• Buying books about Ireland
  
• Standing in front of the Frauenkirche
  
• Sitting at the Stachus Fountain
  
• Kissing the metal pig in front of the Hunt Museum
  
• Reading books about Ireland in front of the Monopteros
  
• Having beer at the Chinesischer Turm
  
• Dipping feet into the Eisbach
  
• Being interviewed by a camera team of Sat 1
  
• Having ice cream at a café
  
• Standing in front of the University
  
• Jogging
  
• Stretching
  
• Hanging from a pole
  
• Sitting on one of those kiddie bouncy animals
  
• Simulating football excitement
  
• Pretending to hitchhike to Ireland wearing one raincoat and holding an umbrella and a sign
  

It was quite a feat and took all day. The Sat 1 people said our pictures were boring, though. Hey, what do they know. Posted the camera right away, now we'll have to wait and see.