We have the apartment. We move in October 4. Everyone who is planning to visit us: you are going to LOVE this place, and there will be plenty of room. Although not perhaps very much furniture!

Disappointing results in the Stadtlauf today, although I beat 2/3 of women and B was in the top 1/6 of men. Still, we were both hoping to run somewhat faster. It got HOT, though, and it took the first half of the first round not to be stepping on people´s feet and trying to pass all the time. We´re still trying to focus on the marathon. But in any case, all disappointment forgotten as we will 1) NOT be paying $2000 just to move in somewhere 2) NOT be staying in an apartment of 250 square feet much longer 3) NOT be dealing with brokers and other suspicious strangers 4) NOT be commuting in from Stuttgart 5) NOT be living outside the Altstadt 6) NOT be using my ENTIRE stipend JUST to pay the rent. So yay!