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Blue Light specials in the Red Light District This is the first installment in my travel journal, if you find my adventures uninteresting or otherwise a blight to your inbox, please let me know. This is going out to about 80 friends across 15 countries. I am currently in Amsterdam (day 2 of my trip), where you can order french fries with mayonnaise and extra vowels (voweels?). Beyond the hookers and pot, I've found some very beautiful neighborhoods with trendy NYC-TriBeCa style galleries and shops. It's been very beautiful weather: I was able to get some nice morning light reflection water off the still water of the canals. I would have appreciated a pool skimmer to get some of the floating trash out of my pictures. Around lunch time today, I strolled through the Red Light District where most of the hookers were apparently resting after a hard nights work. I only saw one woman staffing the "nooner" shift.
Amusingly, I found the University of Amsterdam campus just past the terminus of the red light district. Their insignia is U-XXX, with XXX being the actual symbol of Amsterdam. I bought a U-XXX shirt to complement an intentionally pornographic U-ASS t-shirt I got a couple years ago at the Adult Software portion of the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show. Tomorrow I will be in Berlin and will finally meet face-to-face the company with whom I've been chasing for employment this winter... On Tuesday, in the morning before I left for the airport, I had my teeth cleaned. As I laid in the chair, I wondered what could be more painful than an hour there followed by eight hours of slumming with Northwest Airlines... When I checked my e-mail, I got my answer: my job in Berlin no longer exists. However, they are willing to meet with me tomorrow to give me some other leads to follow. Although this job at a small consulting company has evaporated in the desiccant global economy, I will be visiting four of Europe's visually award winning newspapers in Berlin, Copenhagen and Stockholm. However, it may be pushing my luck to say that these papers might be interested in giving me an internship. Even if they don't, it would be fun to get some feedback on the projects I've done this fall. I should stop here. My train for Berlin is leaving soon. |
