Walk Like an Austrian

First, review your knowledge of 80s music:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHngF_b3NuE&feature=fvst

- Walk Like an Egyptian by The Bangles

Then, listen to the song again from the beginning, but substitute my alternate lyrics to the first verse, and try to guess what happened to me on Tuesday!!!

All the Austrians on the block
They wait for greens lights to cross the street
They don't move too quick (oh whey oh)
They don't jaywalk like Americans

When the Polizei see you cheat
They want the money on the spot
10 euro fine (oh whey oh)
They stop you and write you a ticket

Foreign guys paying stupid fines say
Ay oh whey oh, ay oh whey oh
Walk like an Austrian

That's right, on Tuesday night, continuing my proud tradition of getting ticketed for doing harmless things that everyone else does without repercussion, I was fined €10 for jaywalking. Remember before, when I bragged about how trendy I felt when I walked across the street when the light was red? Talk about karma.

Classes have officially started, and it looks like it should be an interesting semester. I'm taking five classes, zero of which are Accounting classes, and half of which are in German. Yes, half of five. It should be a great semester as far as classes are concerned.

Jon showed me this interesting graph today, and since I haven't been taking any pictures for the past few days (my picture taking finger needs a break after last week), I thought I'd share it here to spice things up a bit. It's a graph showing the correlation between per capita GDP and the religiousness of a country's population. In general, the richer a country is, the less religious its population is, with one pretty significant outlier on the far right...

USA!!! USA!!! USA!!!

Speaking of religion, Mike Carter is coming to visit this weekend! If you're one of the 84% of Americans who believe in a God, please say a prayer for Mike, so that he won't die when I take him skiing on Saturday.

Schönes Wochenende, alle!