I won't comment on the results until I have received at least as many respondents as a barrel of monkeys has monkeys.
Right now it is about 7:45AM. I just got off the phone with my cousin Christian's girlfriend Betti. He is at work. They are really cool, and I got to know them this past summer when they came to visit (well, I knew my cousin before, but I had never really spent more than a couple of days around him until now, at least not while we both spoke the same language).
They are part of a middle ages club in Germany. But unlike such clubs in the US, their club preserves the history of their city's actual medieval castle--Burg Linn. My cousin towers over me in height, and looks like a real nordic butt kicker (see link above, top-right of the individual photos). But his career aspiration is not that of a Berzerker (yes, I know that's not German, but it is still funny). Rather, he is working on a degree in social work.
So here's the real point of this post:
Despite the fact that we grew up in different countries and barely knew each other until 2005, I found it amazing that we have the following common interests:
- He's going into social work, I work for soc ial se cur ity
- We both like Dr. Who (that alone is amazing) and various other cheezy sci fi shows
- We share many of the same political views (although he is a tad further to the left)
- We both like many of the same music groups, German and American.
- We are both inept at home and auto repair, even though our fathers are great at it
Of course, he dislikes coffee and is a vegetarian.
And today's random link is to an article written by Jim Schutze (no relation, as far as I know)
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