I should also add that I got my first parking infraction fee today.
Yup, 30 big ones.
I had no idea - I SWEAR THERE WERE NO SIGNS THAT MADE ME THINK I NEEDED A PERMIT!!! argh.

I am totally starting to feel like a grown up.

Oh.... and funny thing about the Dutch: cubicles are illegal (that is right, it is a worker's right to have their own space and their own window). Funny thing #2: All taxi drivers haver Mercedes.. something to do with equality in working conditions.