The reverse is true.

So I totally forgot to take a picture of the market yesterday.  I was pretty wound up in work, training in the new real employee who's going to be doing the work that I've been doing in the Compliance department.  Training continued on to today, but the point is, I forgot my camera when I went to lunch yesterday.  Oops.  My lunch used to be a 4.50€ pizza from a little restaurant, and then I decided that was way too expensive, so I started making little egg-cucumber-lettuce-cheese sandwiches.  Yum.  Those are a lot cheaper, taste pretty good, and are probably healthier.  On Thursdays from the market, or other days from some other little restaurant, I like to buy a cheap fish sandwich to augment my meal.  Fresh fish!

It's not that I can't eventually afford to have those pizzas, it's that right now, I have no money.  I don't know if I've gotten paid yet from work, since I don't have the one time initiation password for my online banking.  I'm pretty sure they sent it when my name wasn't written next to our mail slot.  So let me clarify real quick for those of you who aren't familiar with the German Post system.  If your name isn't on the mailbox or next to the mail slot, you're not getting any mail.  Which is always pretty exciting, when you're expecting your EC Karte, or your bank password, and it gets returned to the sender because your name either 1. isn't on the sign yet, or 2. the sign got taken down when the last people moved out and whoever took it down didn't put a new one up.  So, I probably have some money in my account from getting paid, but I can't find out until Monday.  Which is OK, since I bought food today.  I still have some traveller's checks, so if worst comes to worst, I cash them on Monday.

Not having money is sort of too bad, because Farin (a Waldsee counselor, from Belgium, dating a German) is coming to Hamburg this weekend, and told me to give them a call.  It'd be fun to hang out with them, but I don't want to show up and go to a restaurant and pull out my last 4€ and say "Hi, I'll order... tea.  Yeah, that sounds nice and filling..."  I'm sure something will work out.

The other day, I met Jakob for a movie after work.  It worked out perfectly, because going to the movie helped avoid the rain.  We went to Indiana Jones.  Pretty German, huh?  It was kind of a fun movie.  Not brilliant, but about what I expected as far as quality.

Plans for the weekend:  wash clothes maybe, clean bathroom / kitchen (it's my turn), maybe meet up with Farin and Nora (and Jakob and Manfred? and ??), think of ideas for my report at work, explore more of Hamburg, maybe find someone who will hire me to help them do yardwork, think about an internship for next spring (part time during the school year), think of interesting food ideas, and so forth.  Maybe I'll get a chance to take some neat pictures!

Oh.  I suppose you might want to see a picture of where I live.  I should do that, too.