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I'm starting my third day in Leipzig. I really have a lot to do and I slightly regret not making more time to come here. The printing museum is quite amazing -- I'm using legit movable type to print the book I'm going to present as my research. They let me do it for free (I'm providing the nicer paper and stuff) too. The people there are very accommodating, but I learned something interesting: English wasn't taught in former East Germany until after the wall fell. This means that to almost everyone older than 30 here I have to speak completely in German. It's been interesting. If I hadn't done that month in Wien before this I would probably be screwed!

I'm going to be spending almost all of my time working on that book for the next two days. It's like a preview of being art school stressed out for this semester (which starts in one week, oh god why). Using the movable type equipment is really awesome because it's such a unique experience, using the same technology people were using CENTURIES AGO as the norm. I'll probably never get to do this again, and so many people will never get to do it at all. However, it really takes forever, at least for me because I'm just starting. To write this post using the type would probably take me about three hours. Hah.