Maybe it was Fortunas excuse for the bloody poker mess I´ve been thru lately, when I got a call on Tue this week from a radiostaton, telling me I´ve been one of 25 lucky winners of two tickets for a private Maria Mena concert on Fri night. She´s only 22, but had quiet a lot of success across Scandinavia, Germany and Austria and for all of you who don´t know her, clicky!. At first glance not the most hetero sound in the world, but seriously, I´ve never heard such a great voice in my life.

One of my friends and fellow SSNL grinder was excited to join me, so we rented a car and drove down to Frankfurt. The concert was supposed to take place on 53rd floor of the Main Tower in FFM, 187m above the streets of the city which was the sickest location for live music I´ve been to. So we arrive in Frankfurt, staring at the huge buildings. Apparently, we´re living in a more rural area, where the church is usually the highest building across town, every time I´m in bigger cities with 50+ floors buildings I feel pretty donkish and how I am lucky that I didn´t get there with a pick up truck, listening to country music and wearing a farmers overall. We get to the location early enough to have a couple of drinks in the tower bar at 187m height. Chairs are standing right in front of the windows and I´m stoked by the view from there, thinking to myself "Thats why they take 9 euro for longdrinks". Around 10pm MM began to sing for a mind blowing 30 minutes. It was so amazing, to see this pretty girl singing with so much passion and emotions, having the citylights almost 200m below our feet. I guess we were totally 11 for those 30 minutes. The gig ended way to soon, we got to chat with her for a while and then headed back home. Good times.

I finished my last test for the semester and am now searching for classes to take the next semester. Since I´m not in a position, where I can hope for making a living from poker I think I got to get my **** together and work for my diploma. So far I managed to work way less than every other student I know and yet had more success than many I met, but the ability to absorb dumb market research or thermodynamics within a pretty short period of time has crippled my knowledge. I have heard enough of every single topic to score a B or C, but I dont feel like I would know anything. In order to finish my diploma I have to absolve at least 13 more weeks in an internship and when I think about what I could do and what jobs or projects I already should be qualified for I dont feel comfortable at all. I really want to spend the time as intern abroad and am now looking for an internship in scandinavia. Applications will be sent to Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland. Fingers crossed that I´ll get the opportunity to move there for a few months, I really really feel the urge to leave this town, this region and this country. It makes me sick, I hate looking out of my window and I hate a lot of people here. I mean, technically I dont feel hate for anybody, but I cant see them anymore.

The only moments when I dont feel uncomfortable with my location is when I´m on the trails and go mountainbiking. I went to another bikepark today with a teammate and we had some sick runs, owning a lot of people. I cant even describe the feeling when you´re actually seeing your line, looking thru the trail like Neo sees thru the matrix. Sucky thing in biking is, when there´s noone left to takeover you´re beginning to own yourself, so did I on my last ride. Slight left turn, a bit too fast, front wheel slips and jam, there I go. No injuries or anything, but I broke the shifter and rearbrake lever. A sport for the wealthy people^^

And finally, one of my favourite singers released a new album. Check it out, she´s awesome.