It's HERE!!!

So, my mom sent me a package last Monday and it's here!! In Munich!! Unfortunately, they tried to deliver it today while I was in class. So, I get home and find the slip on my door (which was an awesome surprise because I had just checked my mailbox for one and was quite disappointed that it was empty). I read it over to find out how to get the package out of the packstation that is in front of the building. See, both Katie and Nicole have gotten packages, and both Katie and Nicole retrieved their packages from the packstation. Nicole had an account there, but I'm pretty sure that Katie didn't. I just assumed that, if you weren't home, the postman would put the package in the packstation and you could pick it up at your leisure. Yeah... that's not what the instructions said. They said that I had 3 options: Call them and they would gladly deliver it tomorrow, free of charge, during a time that is better for me; Call them and they would gladly deliver it today, for a fee of course; or Pick it up myself. I took a look at the map they gave and realised that the DHL Express Post Office is quite far away, and not directly on a train line, so I didn't want to spend the time trying to get there tomorrow. But I really didn't want to call the number. I thought about it. I finally decided that, if DHL here is anything like DHL at home, I would get an automated system and would only have to talk to a person if I kept hitting zero over and over and over again! So I called.

Started off okay. Automated system. Good. Press 3. Okay. Press 1. Sure thing. "We are now connecting you to one of our customer service representatives." Pardon me? I don't want to talk to anyone! I considered hanging up, but decided that I could fudge my way through this. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't die or suffer much physical pain if I couldn't get my point across to these people; and, besides, I could always hang up. Okay, enough beating around the bush, the point is that I spoke to someone and arranged to have the package dropped off tomorrow! It wasn't too hard, either! (It was a little hard, though, because I had no idea what the verb for "deliver" is, and so I kind of just trailed off everytime I was supposed to say it. Hell, it's DHL, they know that I want them to drop the package off!) Yeah!! So now I will get my package tomorrow!! Mom said that she wrapped up a couple little things in there, so I will have real Christmas presents!!

Let's see, what else is new...? Oh, okay, Chris and Diana came back to town before they head out back to Canada. We went to the Hofbrauehaus and had some beers with some people they met at their hostel. Then I came home and had dinner with Katie and when Katie left I watched Happy Gilmore on TV. I ended up drinking a litre and a half of Diet Coke before bed. No big deal, right? Wrong! Let's just say that I went to bed at 1:00 and I still remember 4:30. Well, lesson learned, I guess. I've never had that problem before, but I'm sure that's why I was up so late. It might not have even been so bad, except that I had a class at 8:00 this morning, so I really only got about 2 hours of sleep. The funny thing is that I really don't feel that bad, and (get this) I didn't even fall asleep in my 10:00 class. First time in 3 weeks that I haven't! Right on! Here's hoping that I don't power out at the FRANZ FERDINAND CONCERT TONIGHT!!!!!! So excited!! I actually should take a shower and get ready now. Ciao!