Sunday, October 02, 2005
"Deine Muti hat mir gut geschmeckt" wurde für eine ausgezeichnet[-e?-en?] T-shirt macht.
Deutscher Klub officers met for the first time Friday before Stammtisch to discuss shirts and dues and events and suchlike. I suggested we hold a potluck sort of banquet (charge only people who bring no food), which Dr. Bonzo then tacked on to the annual Oktoberfest to make that more interesting. The club has also been charged with rebuilding the puppets the department uses for its Weihnachsfest at a local elementary school. I suspect this project will prove to be something done entirely by the officers, which would be ganz nicht gut, als wir haben keine Zeit.
After Stammtisch I had planned to bum a ride from Kelly, but she and Jeremy did not make an appearance, so I agreed to go to the Lubbock fair afterward with a girl named Bonnie, in exchange for a ride back to the dorm. She suckered Eike into going, and another German (someone from our class) rode along as well. Bonnie went bananas for the rides, and we three followed her around munching various fried foods that had been put on sticks. Eike was attracted to the fried cheese-on-a-stick booth, which sounded least offensive to my stomach (which had been aching all day), so I chose the pepper jack. Es schmeckt mir gut.
I would have ridden the rides, death traps though they were, but I still had a severe Baumschmerzen. Earlier Friday morning (nach Schule) Eike passed me and asked, "Wie geht's?", to which I responded confidently, "Ich habe ein Baumschmerzen". A "Schmerzen" is an ache: Zahnschmerzen is "toothache", Kopfschmerzen is "headache", et cetera. What I told Eike translates to "I have a tree-ache". I meant to say, "Ich habe ein Bauchschmerzen", a stomache-ache.
I did not explain further that this Baumschmerzen involves a stomache-ache (I spent more time in the bathroom Friday than I did in class) plus debilitating menstrual cramps. I have had this Baumschmerzen all weekend, and I rather wish it would disappear.
[Lauree Frances Keith concluded this diatribe at 9:03 AM]