Good morning! As this publishes, I am hopefully on my way to Paris – fingers crossed for no delays please! We’re off to see a live show of the most excellent podcast Welcome to Night Vale (give it a listen if you haven’t already. It’s surreal and bizarre and highly amusing in a mental kind of way).
Let me tell you a little about my week. On Saturday, Jan, K and I went to a drag queen competition in Karlsruhe (“Karlsruhe sucht den Superdrag”). It was a lot of fun, and I want this contestant’s hair:
I admit it doesn’t look like much in the picture, but in real life it was really pretty! And yes, I’m aware that this is a wig, but if I grew my hair, dyed it and invested in some curlers I could achieve that look… right?! Also, this was one of the judges. How awesome is this costume?!
Terrible picture, but in case you can’t tell, she’s a snake!
Other than that, my week has consisted of work, work, work. While some of my German colleagues haven’t had as many translations to complete as usual, I’m practically drowning in them! I even have a huge one that isn’t due until mid-December, so I’ll be kept busy basically until we close for Christmas. Definitely not complaining – I much prefer this to no work! But I have to admit I’m glad I’ve got this long weekend to break things up a bit (and also that I applied for the day off back in August – any later and it might already have been impossible!). Now let’s have some letters:
Dear Paris. See you in a few hours!
Dear French food. Can’t wait to eat you! (And I’m so glad my stomach seems to be my friend again.)
Dear November. I can’t believe you’re already here! I’m not ready for it to be the penultimate month of the year!
Dear Christmas. I suppose I’m actually going to have to start seriously thinking about you now if I want to get all my gifts bought in time! (And yes, it is possible to not think about Christmas while cross stitching snowmen and robins.)
Dear blogspot bloggers. I wish more of you would have the Name/URL options for comments! If I select the WordPress option, I always end up commenting as “confuzzledom” instead of Bevchen. I’m aware that’s partly my own fault for selecting differing user and blog names, but it’s still really annoying!
Dear everybody. Happy Halloween! I hope you have a great night, whether you choose to celebrate or not.
I’ll be back on Sunday and will answer any comments then. In the meantime, have a great weekend!
Confuzzledom 
ooooh Paris.Have a great time.That drag queen comp looked good fun.X
It was a lot of fun 🙂
You can keep the hair – I want his stomach!
Have fun in Paris 🙂
Haha, yeah I would take the stomach as well!
Jealous! Enjoy your trip to Paris!!
Eat some lovely tartelettes, macarons, and stinky French cheese for me!
Thank you! I didn’t eat any of them, but I did have some amazing food!
Happy Halloween! Have a fantastic time in Paris!
Totally agree with you on the blogspot blogger thing. I can never comment on blogs that don’t have the Name/URL option enabled. 😦 Have so much fun in Paris!!
It is so annoying!
Have fun in Paris and enjoy the show!
Thanks. The show was fantastic.
I’ve never been to a drag club (or contest for that matter) but I’ve been told it’s an awesome experience!! Your photos are great! And I hadn’t spotted that the judge was dressed as a snake!
Hope you have a great time in Paris!!
It was my first time at a drag contest. It was only by coincidence that we spotted the poster. I would definitely go again though 🙂
Only you could find out that there was a drag queen competition going on, then drag (ha ha) your man along to see it 😉 I agree – the hair is just fabulous. You know what you have to do now. Hope Paris is wonderful for you.
Hahaha, to be fair there wasn’t much dragging going on. He came willingly 😉
Totally with you on the Blogspot thing. Drives me nuts!! And of course means I end up not commenting on all sorts of things I’d like to.
Hope you’re having a fab time in Paris 😀
Unless something is reeeeally interesting, I click away if I see no name/URL option.
That drag show looks so cool! I’d love to go see something like that. And I am right with you with Blogspot blogs! I rarely comment on BS these days.
It was really fun 🙂
Yeah, it’s really irritating! I wish everyone was on WP 🙂
Hope you had a great time in Paris!
I’m late to wish you a good trip, so I hope it was/is excellent!!
Hm…I use Blogspot but don’t know what you mean by name/URL option since I can’t see where I would change it. Is mine the way you like it or not? 🙂 Oh dear – I’m revealing how little I know about the behind-the-scenes of blogging!
I’m glad to hear you had a great time in Paris and I look forward to reading your posts about it.
You have the option – if you log out then try to comment on your own blog you’ll see what I mean.
Ah, indeed. Next I need to figure out how to have a picture next to my name when I comment on your blog rather than that ugly bug or whatever it is! I think I need to create a WordPress account for that, so I might just embrace the bug.