Back to ... reality?

I'm back from Vienna and Prague, home from vacation and back to... work? Hmm.. I don't think so. Anyways, I had an awesome trip. I flew into Vienna and took the bus to Prague (40 euros round trip, very good deal) to visit a friend from last years team in Southern France... We relived the fabulous times we had with our team and our outstanding coach... how we miss the French! Just kidding. They're not all bad... ahem, umm anyways, it was great. We ate a lot, and I mean a LOT, drank, went to the gym a few times and cruised around Prague. My french was rusty, as was hers, so we invented a handful of new mots, all of which I'm too ashamed to share... very ridiculous. So after five days I took off back to Vienna where I met up with an oooold friend from Gonzaga who just moved there, Doug Griffin. We had lunch and caught up on the last seven years, had some Czech spirits and a beer in the Heldenplatz in front of the Imperial Palace in Wien (where, as Doug pointed out, 70 years ago Hitler stood to announce it's "annexation" of Austria, Anschluss), sat out a rainstorm in the city's oldest cafe (so they say) and ??? reminisced. Next on the program was visiting Chris and Marie-eve, also friends who I met last year in Cannes, in Amstetten. He is playing vball there and she is long distance with her MBA program, so they are both busy busy. I was only there for two days, and we did much of the same - eating, drinking, laughing.. that sort 'o' thing. It was great as well. Then back to Athens on Saturday where two lovely surprises were waiting for me: warm weather and Steve.. yay... The last few days here have been super warm, upwards of 20... very nice. I don't have too much on the agenda now, getting through some thick books, new culinary adventures, yoga and waiting to hear about school. I have my fingers crossed for City Planning at the University of Manitoba.. hopefully I hear something soon. One more thing to share - Steve has a super-fan from last year in Cagliari, Sardinia... she is Buddhist and claims to have known Steve in another life and has given him a bunch of Buddhist paraphernalia .. random, but anyways, she sent him a package for his birthday with a bunch of stuff, including: a messenger bag, a small stuffed animal, several printouts of Buddhist teachings and words of wisdom, chocolates (Bacios), and stuff to make lasagna!! Bechamel sauce, tomato sauce, lasagna noodles and instructions. My point is that I ate a chocolate! No, and it came, as they all do, with a fortune. Read, and learn. Synonymous with Buddhist teaching? Not sure...

FOR EVERY WOMAN THERE IS A SEDUCER. HER HAPPINESS LIES IN HER MEETING HIM.