U issa xi ħaġa għalkollox differenti ...

(oo ees suh shee ħa juh aal kollosh diff u rent i) and now for something completely different...

It's my goal to be able to say that in as many languages as I can some day.... kind of like Omniglot and their hovercrafts full of eels (in Maltese that's: il-Hovercraft tiegħi hu mimli sallur [ill hovercraft tee ay oo meem lee sall er]). I can probably do French...
et maintenant pour quelque chose complètement différent...
今が何かぜんぜん違いない... (ima ga nanika zenzen chigainai)
i ara per alguna cosa completament distint (Català)

And I'm afraid my vocab isn't good enough for Greek yet, mostly reading there not writing.

At any rate, I'm afraid lately i've been so amazingly busy with a secret project that fell through, and now with applications for Grad School so the blog hasn't been getting much love. I haven't really been going out and seeing much either. My friend Jessica is in Israel at the moment and there hasn't been much going on otherwise.

I went out to the il-Melita tea and coffee garden (fair warning this site has a fair amount of ads, has good pictures though, their own site is down, which seems to happen a lot around here and noone cares) weekend before last with Jessie which was fun but recently nothing. Though that il-Melita was an experience, the tea and coffee garden apparently hosts birthday parties, so we kind of watched the kids go nuts, do the limbo, eat the wacky mushroom house cake they had. We had burgers, and I can't speak for Jessie, but I was less than thrilled with it, tasted kind of like a veggie burger, it was underdone (for my tastes), and just really different, but it took care of my burger craving. Wasn't too expensive either €12, hopefully I can check out the restaurant and the wine bar section at some point too.

Otherwise the weather has gotten distinctly colder, especially indoors, dropping down towards 16C (about 60F) at times which doesn't sound that bad, but makes shorts chilly and has one very odd side effect. It seems houses here are not very insulated if at all... so it gets freaking freezing inside even when it's perfectly fine outside! It's been pretty rainy of late too, which isn't too bad, not exactly cold November Rain like it would be in the states, but wet nonetheless. Stormed pretty bad the other day too, was kind of surprising, had a couple of troubles, lightning struck (or rather the thunderclap vibrations) and demolished a stone balcony in Gozo falling on some cars, noone was hurt. There was also a pretty fierce looking waterspout off the southern coast, but it didn't make its way inland.

Thursday there was a serious downpour as well, as you can see in the picture below. Anyway that's all for now, hopefully more updates forthcoming, and perhaps the weather will be nice enough to go places again soon! And have more stories!