eurotrash and a couple of things

• i made it out of bed today and haven't felt like collapsing yet.
• lungus coughedupapolus seems to have subsided.
• i think i will live to complete midterms and more importantly, celebrate my birthday
  
• my new oh-so-trendy Diesel shoes arrived that i ordered off the internet. instead of being black with tan and red accents (which rachel agreed with me is what they looked like on the picture) they are black with YELLOW and red accents. so now I have shoes that are the color of the german flag. they are not that bad. they're just kind of euro-trash, like not the kind of euro-trash i usually like. this is like the serious euro-trash from spain/portugal/italy. have i ever explained my taxidermy of euro-trash? here is a perfect opportunity:
  
  ibero-trash: origin is spain or portugal and sometimes italy. look for tight, expensive clothes, very, very bright colors. may also include people from the middle east trying to be western. greasy hair also a common factor. techno, you know, the whole deal.
  cigarette: marlboro lights 100 or marlboro reds; drink: caphirina
  
  ost-trash: origin is eastern europe, russia, or east germany (hence ost, meaning east in german). tight cheap clothes, colors not as bright, fake orangey tans.
  cigarette: lucky strikes; drink: vodka red bull
  
  brit-trash: origin is obvious. came up with this spending a lot of prenzlauer berg in berlin which was all but completely overrun by hipsters and entrepreneurs for whom london got too expensive or passe. deragatory term used not so much to criticize clothing (who is going to hate on Paul Smith) but more for their extremely loud and obnoxious behavior when in germany specifically (understandable).
  cigarette: gauloise legeres (the blue ones); drink: beer
  
  scan-trash: swedes, norwegians, fins, danes--lots of black clothes. blonde hair (at least it's natural), lots of black eye makeup. again, black clothes. they talk funny.
  cigarette: marlboro lights; drink: vodka tonic
  
  euro-trash: ah yes, this is the "good" kind, kind of like HDL cholesterol is the good kind of cholesterol. no particular region--can be found anywhere. it's fun, experimental but classy. trendy, while nothing you'll regret in 10 years, or 10 days for that matter.
  cigarette: gauloises blondes (the red one); drink: varies

so there you have it.