No German class next week. Should I tell my family or not? If I tell them that I have to go to class then at least I have those three mornings free. But then I have to wake up early and find somewhere to be. And Tuesday is a holiday. They’re not going to believe me if I say I have class on Tuesday. Okay, I’ll just tell them the truth I guess. I think I overheard Gabi saying that she’s taking the kids to Regensburg for a few days this week. God, I hope that’s true. You know you have a crappy job when you look forward to being left alone to clean. 
 
Ader went to Morocco for two weeks yesterday :( But then he comes to Munich :) And in these two weeks, either I’ll get my visa and can start more aggressively looking for a new job, or I won’t and I’ll go buy a plane ticket which I can change the date for. Doing either one of these things will feel pretty amazing.

If I ever get the money that’s owed to me, I have to go pay for next month’s metro card, my next German class (I’ll be up to B1!), and buy all my winter things-boots, gloves, a scarf, a hat…I saw a lot of cute, cheap, non-leather things at Forever 18. That’s what the Germans call Forever 21. And the money better come soon. I must have asked at least fifteen times now, verbally and in writing, “Can I get paid now?” Every time I get the same answer, “Ja, klar. Erinnere mich später.” I hope this doesn’t become any more of an issue than it already is.

I also hope that I find the time/workspace/inspiration to work on my novel soon. I heard back from my editor and I need to cut out some characters and then choose one perspective—first or third—and stick to it. So basically, rewriting will probably be as many hours of work as writing was. Can’t say I didn’t know it would be like that though. If my novel doesn’t make its way into a literary agent’s hands before the summer, it probably never will.

Unless every law school I applied to rejects me. That’s another thing I should know about soon. And once I know if and where I’m going to law school, then I can start looking for jobs for Ader and then an apartment for us. There will be so much planning for the future to be done! Which, in case you haven’t realized yet, is kind of my favorite thing to do.