I turned 30 today, you can no longer trust me. I'm making my own birthday post. Is there a rule against that? Oh well. Anyway, this is not my cake, this is just a picture of a cake I found in a Google Image search. They had s'mores for me at the office, but I didn't get a picture.

This is my new 'do:


I've been blonde for almost a year, but it got boring.

Tomorrow I am going to Berlin, to distract myself from being 30:




I'm really excited, I'll be there for a week, because that's all the vacation time I have saved up so far at my new job. I was going to make this post auf Deutsch, but I'm too lazy and anyway I should be packing. I wanted to watch The Bourne Identity as Berlin research, but there just isn't time. See you next week, just in time for Julie's Superbowl, aka The Oscars!

This is an instructional video on what to say in English when someone mugs you. Apparently, aerobics helps.