Go ask Alice

4 weeks after signing up for a new telephone service and DSL, I still do not have the account set up.

Apparently this is normal in Germany.

I am going with 'Alice,' an alternative provider because I will be able to have an open contract that I can cancel at any time; Telekom requires 2 year contract. But whether you go with Telekom or any other service provider, the wait, the unbearable wait is still the same.

But isn't Alice just so pretty?

Meanwhile, I clandestinely check my personal emails at work (hey, by the way, why don't you drop me a line?), and post things here and there.

And I still can't call my friends and family. I miss you guys!