tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-319687792012-02-16T20:52:57.557+01:00Felnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1711100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31968779.post-60098396282306712712012-01-31T18:08:00.001+01:002012-01-31T18:17:57.979+01:00

Last year, I didn't read all that much. This may not seem like a big problem, a lot of people don't read all that much. However, I'm not only a student of literary studies, I'm also the owner of many, many, MANY unread books, some of them my own, some of them obtained via Bookcrossing (and therefore longing to be on the road again). Plus, I really like reading. The other two things wouldn't have

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I love writing. I love language. I love stories. I am, in fact, attempting to write more than 200 pages of PhD stuff on the power of storytelling. Why then do I not keep up with this blog? Who knows. I'll just try again. I may write about nothing of great importance. I may write about the banalities of daily life, like "Oooh, look, I bought a sweater with shiny stripes!", accompanied by a

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Tears in my eyes. Might just be the hormones. Anyway. Linky

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Step 1: Mix together ingredients until they look really pretty. Step 2: Bake until your whole flat smells delicious. Step 3: Devour!     PS: I used this recipe (which is in German). I added some spices (cinnamon, nutmeg) to the egg mix. It was okay, but will not become a new favourite. If only I could find the recipe I used last year...the one that was seriously amazing and got me into

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During Monday's tea party/tasting, I not only consumed many a tasty cup, but also squirreled away some of the many interesting varieties I did not have time to try into my bag. The loot: As I needed some cheering up today, I tried two of them: London Tea's 'The Eminent Earl Grey' and English Tea Shop's Savory Blend, one of their special Christmas flavors. I have in the past not been a big

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So, that's how I felt today, until a few minutes to 4pm. - I went to be too late. - I slept badly and dreamt even worse. - When I looked at my phone in the morning, it said something about it being 2°C outside. - When I switched on my computer to sign up for an exam, I found that the exam date doesn't exist. I get nasty visions of the exam having taken place last week, with me being completely

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Have I really not written anything here in ten months? Wow. And that coming (or NOT coming) from me, who loves writing so much. Language. Texts. Words. The one who always thinks about wanting to write, and then doesn't. Hah. A friend, some months ago, quote Goethe at me. He said (and I take the liberty to translate): Success has three letters: ACT. [Erfolg hat drei Buchstaben: TUN] So, maybe now

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A little late, but here it is: *Being positive about not winning Nano - and managing to achieve the goal I set myself, even though I only set it on the evening of the 29th, when I had 16k, and it was to reach 20k. A big hooray for far-off cheerleaders, ones never met in person. *Fresh snow - it feels like this will be a proper winter once again, after all those half-hearted ones we had for the

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...I won my first Nano. And apparently, I was much more hilarious than I am now. I was just reading around my first blog, Live from London, a little, and even though I know it was me who wrote that, a younger, very different me, I had to grin at myself quite a few times. How wonderfully witty I was! Please take a look if you want some funny observations on London, studying abroad, or myself.

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Because there is hardly anything better than a nice cup of tea when it's cold outside, and I've always loved opening my advent calendars, I once again got myself Sonnentor's Tea Advent Calendar this year. So, starting on December 1 (ie today), I will be having a different cup of tea every day, and, because I love them so much, will write about each of them. At the end of the time period (which

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Okay, before it is forgotten again, here is my list for the past two weeks: *Going dancing with my boyfriend, plus my sister and her boyfriend. *Then going to a concert with them the next day, kebap eating and lots of weird conversations *We finally made it to Vienna! I delivered books. I got some books. We went shopping. We visited the Christmas market. We ate hot dogs and sweet pretzels and

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(I started this on Friday, and am finishing it on Monday, so the "getting up" etc stuff refers to Friday.) I haven't posted anything for so long, I now need three posts in a row. Well, whatever. A friend of mine posted this meme, then another did, so I think I might also give it ago. 1. What time did you get up this morning? 10 past 8 - my boyfriend woke me at 6.45 or something, but I ignored

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I've been looking for a name for my bike for ages. Not just for the current one, but for the one before that as well. I never had any good ideas. I called the previous one "Laguna" for a while, because it was blue, but it didn't really fit. I tried to call my current one "Ai-Khanoum" ("moon woman" in Uzbek), a term I wrote down in an exhibition and have been longing to use for something, but it's

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(Or just good stuff in general.) 1. It is snowing. I declared a few days ago we would most likely only get snow by January. Not so. November 26 it is! 2. A friend of mine coined the term "Nochvember" ('noch' is the German word for 'still', it still being some time before Christmas madness really starts). I currently have slight troubles not saying/spelling it like this all the time. 3. I

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Hey everyone... Let me tell you, this is not what I expected this Nano to be like. I wrote much the first day, quite okay the next few. Then I was already behind by day 4. Then two people close to me told me that maybe I should focus a little more on work and my PhD instead of going crazy again and writing until 4am and all that stuff that I usually do every November. I defended myself and said

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Some time soon, I will post something else besides these lists again. ;) *Last Monday was a great day at work, because I had a lot of easily manageable tasks to do, which could all be finished on the day. Very satisfactory. *Finished another scarf. One more item to cross off my to-do-list. Yay! *Seems I was quite lucky in both the family and Bookcrossing secret santa draw. :) *Some great talks

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I'm really late this time... *My boyfriend's back, and I mean really back. Not just from the business trip. *I sucessfully finished my fast, and it was a great experience. *Nano was off to a good start. *Sushi two evenings in a row. Yumm. *'Sofa day' on Friday, just eating delivious food, watching great movies, chatting, playing some videogames side by side, relaxing. *Only one day at work, yay

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We may have just the products you need. Check these out: Hyperbole and a Half's "Shower Products for Men", now animated Alan Moore's "The march of the sinister ducks" (no kidding) Bauhaus' "Who killed Mr. Moonlight" (which I will count in, since I find it incredibly weird that I'm only listening to this now, and have not done so, say, 20 years ago) Enjoy!

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I'm home alone and it feels *really* strange, but there's such a lot of good stuff this week...amazing! *It's the 31st, so in a few minutes it's November 1st, and everyone who has been reading for a while knows what that means. *This is a good thing even now, and has been some other moments this week, because a) looking forward to it makes me SO happy and b) I've been thinking a lot about my

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For the past few weeks, I've been writing those little lists every week, of good things, things that make me happy, that I am thankful for. Of course I am not the only one doing this. I just found this story, and it is beautiful. I've been reading this blog for a few weeks now, and it's a good almost daily reminder to be thankful for the little things, or the weird things, or the things that at

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Here's the story...some time at the beginning of the year or so, I decided that I wanted to acquire more CDs. I had been living off music lent to me by friends and forgotten about my own favourites. So...I managed to do this for two months (one was Jamie Cullum - The Pursuit, the second was Tori Amos - Abnormally attracted to sin), then I was out of my job and I guess I just forgot about it. Then

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I can't quite believe I'm already on round 5...time passes quickly in Feli-Land right now... But there have been some *really* good things this week! *Meeting my sister three times in a row! (Coffee on Thursday, party on Friday, crazy Starcraft-LAN-Party on Saturday) *Having quite the action-packed weekend in contrast to our usual "Stay at home and be exceedingly lazy"-routine (party on Friday,

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 More info, plus Guardian background story, here

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Interestingly, even this week, there are good things to post. Just goes to show, life is good, after all, once you start looking at it the right way. *First of all, two amazing videos which cheered me up immensely right now. Hip Hop Medley, done by Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon I think the voice impersonation is pretty great. :) and this for full-on nerdiness. The original music clip can

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A little late, but here it is: *Taking walks both Saturday and Sunday, just as the sun is setting *Cheshire Cat moon *Cultural Studies lectures. YES! *Finally feeling somewhat like a proper PhD student, with a plan. *Seeing so many pretty things, and not spending money on them *Lots of movies, again (The Dark Knight, Strings, some other stuff) *Strings (Yes, it deserves a spot of its own.

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One thing that constantly makes me sad is how I never seem to find the time to do the things I'd really love to do - properly work on my PhD, write more, do some photography, sew, learn some more Italian, all that. When, once again, I realise that this is one of the things making me unhappy, I usually make some sort of plan. Right now, I've decided to: - finish things (especially concerning

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My massive haul from last week's 2nd visit to my closing-down favourite yarn store. At least my massive purchases made the owner laugh. ;) This are, well, hm, around 30 or so balls of yarn? Thankfully I spent today organising some things, so I could safely stow them all away. And I have no cats. Although that might actually  have been fun...same picture, but the caption would have read 'Spot

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I just ordered myself a necklace, simply because, when I saw it, I shouted out 'Triforce!' *shakes head about herself* If I'm not really careful, next time I'll be buying a boat. :P

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Let's see what this week has offered: Getting crazy nicknames at work while my colleagues were sick/on holiday (stuff like 'saviour' etc were used, weird, but funny, too) Mentioning I had a sore throat and a colleague walking up to me 2 minutes later, offering me her three tea packages to choose from Buying lots and lots and loads of yarn and not feeling guilty about it Drinking a drink called '

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Sometime in the past week I read this here, and thought, well, interesting - that does sound a lot like concepts I heard of before (visualisation, writing lists of what you're thankful for every day etc), just replacing the universe at large with the internet (or so it seems at first glance).Essentially, it's not much different though...defining clearly what you like, what you want, and putting

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After hearing rumours a few days ago I cleared things up for myself today - my favourite yarn store is closing down. There are many memories attached to that store...childhood memories of yarn shopping with my mum for my next fall sweater...my mum getting me my very first yarn to knit with there (which I still have somewhere...hm)...and in the past few years, a lot of happy time spent browsing

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Apparently, there do exist...bright green Innocent smoothies!Amazing, just like all the others - and not just the colour.Little side note: I think Innocent smoothies were all that helped me stay healthy during my Erasmus stay in London, and the ensuing diet of toast with cheese, potatoes with cheese, and hot chocolate with marshmallows and cream (which they sold right next to the library...pure

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...surging in clouds around friends are infective in the best possible ways.I'll probably move over to Wordpress some time soon, but for now I'll still post here...a little list of happy things. :)1) A short while ago I finally received the present I'd made myself for finishing my on-the-side training. It deserves a post of its own, but here's a teaser...the prettiest packaging I've seen so far:2

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It's my birthday!Consequently, there might be a surprise present later on today.It's because of a bet I made, three years ago.That's the way things go.For now, the sky is growing lighter, birds are singing, I celebrated the beginning of this day,and now better go sleep a little.

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Yet another list of books.I'm currently digging through all those printouts etc which I stuffed into folders years ago and which just languish there, hidden away and of no use to anyone. Among them I found this list of"110 Books to Read". I have no idea when I printed this, or where I got the whole thing from, but I'll post it here nevertheless. Let's see how much I know from this one.(Bold=Read

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I finished "Howl's Moving Castle" yesterday, and I immensely enjoyed it. I bought it several years back, right after seeing the Miyazaki movie, but of course it languished in several bookshelves until now. (Except, of course, my boyfriend read it immediately.)Well, the day after starting to read it I just HAD to rewatch the movie, to see how it tied in with the beginning of the book. It's so

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I just found this meme somewhere in a blog post 4 years old. I think I did it once before, but decided to do it again to check out the difference. The idea of this meme is to mark all the items read as bold, and then add four recently read books at the bottom. So here goes: The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy – Douglas Adams

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I am now, for the first time in my life, officially unemployed. ;)Somehow I managed to get a sponsored course which will start next week. Since autumn I've done a 1-weekend-a-month-course to become a trainer in adult education, and my couselor got me this fulltime-ten-weeks course on becoming a trainer for teaching immigrants reading, writing and speaking skills. I'm really happy about this - it

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My current employment will end with the end of January. Despite all the usual stuff I will do because of that (meeting with a counselor of the national employment agency, applying for unemployment pay, writing loads of job applications) the bios of all those oh so successful people around me - or, right now, the job application received here at the office from someone three years younger than me

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As Nano is slowly approaching its finishing line (and I'm only about 10.000 words behind, hah!), for some reason I've been looking for another silly task to do.I didn't get to see the movie "Julie and Julia", but I read about it, and the idea of methodically working through an instruction book (be it cooking, sewing, knitting, you name it) highly appealed to me. First I thought I'd work my way

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I'll be a writer!

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I just found this video, which gives an interesting view on religion/worldviews - maybe not groundbreaking, but it's nicely done.It came from this page.While I wouldn't define myself as an atheist, I like to see different and new approaches. (And I just love pretty videos.)On a completely unrelated note, I talked with some friends yesterday about a possible movie version of Asteroids. Asteroids!

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It's my birthday, and it started with happy wishes (first was my brother at 6.30, like I'd be properly awake at that time - but it was sweet :)), cuddled up reading and listening to my new Tori Amos CD. Lovely. Can I please have birthday mornings for the rest of my life? ;)

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I've been thinking about scaling down and using less for so long already that it physically hurts when I think about how little I achieved in that direction in that amount of time.But this is not going to be a post about getting rid of clutter etc (that's going to come later), it's about Wardrobe Refashion and how I'll try to do things differently this time.First, I'll do a huge stocktaking of

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Here we go again.

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There are some things in life that I seem to keep postponing. Finishing my universitary education, getting a well-paid job, meeting up with people I like...It's something of a minor curse.Last month, I (uncharacteristically) managed to make two overdue visits in 3 weeks! Utterly amazing, I know. (I also finished some other long overdue projects, but that's something else.)Happy receiver of visit

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A: Words of wisdom B: By the way, do you mind if I ask you a personal question? A: Go ahead. B: OK I will. A: So, ask me your question. B: Excuse me! OK, "What is my question ?".I think I prefer conversing with real people. ;)

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My friend Kris posted this link to a page where you can chat it up with a chat bot and check out whether it's answers are filled with intelligence or not. After some rather uninteresting stuff, this exchange took place:A: It's raining here. B: Do you experience any effects of global warming there? A: I think so. B: I think so too. A: Do you experience any effects of global warming? B: happy

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A) I finally downloaded the photographs of the last two months from my camera, so there *should* be some massive posts coming soon.B) By chance, I got to see the movie "Aeon Flux" last night. I knew about the animated series (which has been on my Amazon wishlist for ages, even though I've not seen a single episode - the online recommendations somehow seemed good enough reason to put it there),

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Here's the résumé I just posted on the WR blog...I do SO suck at taking part in this challenge, but I'm hopeful for the next time I'll sign up...which will be with the next signups, probably starting July.Anyway, here goes:Even though my 2 months are technically over, I would like - since I am always so bad at posting regularly - give a sort of summary of the experience this time round...1) As

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Somehow, things are not going as they should...Or at least something still feels weird.The weekend before last, we finally fixed up our balcony and had a party to celebrate the event - the balcony is ours again, goodbye pidgeons! I finally have my own herbs and especially my very own lavender (how I longed for that all these years!). Two different kinds of it actually. I go out to smell and

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So, I fell ill last Wednesday evening. Wednesday afternoon I had given in to the lure of visiting the one 2nd-hand store I'd ever been in, and I found a number of lovely things (though apparently thrift stores aren't as thrifty here as in other parts of the world...); and there's actually not much I want to change about them but maybe a little...But I can't, because I'm supposed to stay in bed,

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The beginning of this WR run was, for me, marked by doing some mending (3 pants fixed and once again wearable! Ditto one jumper and a dress) and some finishing (weaving in ends on two scarves I knit, sewing the perfect button to my Calorimetry 2). I also pulled a few more refashion-designated items from my wardrobe.What's on the line right now:- Fixing, or having fixed, the very ripped and

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In my bid to finally get a three-column-blog, I found this beautiful template (via the usual internet routes...WR-other blog-nice template). I will probably customize it to death once I know how (different header, maybe different background, different colours etc), but the most important thing right now are those columns. :-*[No idea why only a few links are displayed in beautiful purple and not

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I pledge that I shall abstain from the purchase of "new" manufactured items of clothing, for the period of 2 / 4 / 6 months. I pledge that i shall refashion, renovate, recycle preloved items for myself with my own hands in fabric, yarn or other medium for the term of my contract. I pledge that I will share the love and post a photo of my refashioned, renovoted, recycled, crafted or created item

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Old news are good news?- I won Nano again. I even finished my story. And a couple of nights ago, my head solved a problem I had with the ending of the story, so I'm all motivated to go through the wholething again and make it a better one.- I spent most of the time since Christmas which I was not working or lazing around moving in with my boyfriend. By now, all my stuff is here, my room at home

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[Of course, I meant the Lambchop "Romp" CD, not Stomp, geez, how tired wasI? :P]I have no pictures to show, but we had a suprisingly nice weekend, considering it was the beginning of November. Instead of wallowing in warm water for most of Saturday, we decided to skip this part until next weekend, and rather went for a nice walk (up the hill, hot chocolate, down the hill) and then into the sauna

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Last year, my novelling attempts died on Day 1, since the long weekend was spent away from keyboard and proper novelling attitude (alone, late at night, surrounded with tea and snacks). This year, I will do better! I WILL write this year's story. No matter if it turns out as stupidly misled as the one of 2006. This year, it will be good. :)Fingers crossed.*****In other news, I finished my studies

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Which Scrubs Character Are You? More on In Case of Emergency. Created by BuddyTV

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Which Discworld Character are you like (with pics)created with QuizFarm.com You scored as The LibrarianYou’re the Librarian! Once a wizard, now an Orang-utan (due to an unfortunate magical accident), you refuse to be turned back for a few reasons: In this form, it’s easier to reach the shelves and hold more books; having the strength of five men makes people return their books on time;

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Last week, out of a need for indulgence, and to sort of reward me for almost finishing my diploma thesis (just waiting for some corrections by my supervisor now, and then...), and because I received an email about it of course, I bought all the available back issues of Interweave Knits in their big Back Issue Sale. And wohoo - today the box arrived! It's sitting there right next to me on my bed,

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I finally managed to get my photographic problems solved, so I can write about some of the great things that I did.On the 11th of November, I went to Linz with my lovely friend Kris. Where we had some lovely cake and hot chocolatecourtesy of the lovely Sue - and afterwards we went on to a different café where we met some more wonderful people, and I took fancy photographs of lights and

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And so they have. :)Soon, very soon, more interesting stuff than me being happy about written progress (oh, and an all-over clean bathroom etc). Some pictures would be nice for a change, and so we shall have pictures. Soon.It took months, but I think I'm getting into it now. Three pages today, which may not seem a lot, but every page counts...and this is the most I've written on a single day in

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So...Last night I had a hard time falling asleep. My aunt and great-aunt had been to visit for the evening, and I had a talk with my aunt about my thesis, and my job, and future work possibilities.* Anyway, lying in bed, feeling full even though I had only had one meal (it's all those eggs, I swear, blargh), I tossed and turned and almost panicked. I don't really know why, it just all seemed too

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I currently spend much more time knitting than working on the big pile of books sitting here to my left. Not good.Finding sites like Ravelry and then signing up for them is even worse.But the worst bit? Surfing it for hours and daydreaming about knitting ALL day without doing either any knitting NOR any uni work, ie doing NOTHING at all but staring at a computer screen, or eating another Easter

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So...I thought a lot about changing the colour of this blog lately. Somehow black doesn't really cut it anymore. I don't know whether the current pastel theme will stay, but hey - doesn't it look nice and lovely and like spring is finally here?Also - I got my job. Can you believe it? First application, first interview, and there you have it. Hah!I think it's going to be nice - even though I

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For years I thought how nice it would be to find a hobby which would give me some break from the neverending reading and thinking that my course of studies requires. I always thought I would love to do something with my hands - and sometimes I did, buying some clay and making simple figurines, or dreaming about a career in woodworking (which I still haven't tried), or I did some minimal drawing,

Felnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31968779.post-13080292772713034552008-02-24T00:27:00.002+01:002008-02-24T00:47:27.269+01:00

What better to do at night? Again, I found this on Dy's blog.Here are the rules:1. Once you are tagged, link back to the person who tagged you2. Post THE RULES on your blog3. Post 7 weird or random facts about yourself on your blog4. Tag 7 people and link to them5. Comment on their blog to let them know they have been tagged.Ok, seven weird facts. I've done this before, but I guess there are

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Here's a nice meme I found at Dy's Blog. It requires one-word answers, which makes it nice and short. ;)One Word1. Where is your cell phone? backpack2. Your significant other? close3. Your hair? washed4. Your mother? curious5. Your father? overworked6. Your favorite thing? happiness7. Your dream last night? horrible8. Your favorite drink? tea9. Your dream/goal? artist10. The room you’re in?

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I'm being lazy and don't want to work, but I'll have to soon. In the meantime I did the Pottercraft fiber quiz. Apparently I'm angora.Says on the site: "Angoras are eager to please and are highly sensitive. Flexibility and adaptability are your strengths and sometimes your weakness as well. You are essentially a warm and feeling person, and little escapes your impressionable mind. You are

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You may wonder what this car is doing here.Then you might happen to glance at its Not-yet-numberplate.And you might learn something about the power of association. Or Google Picture search.Anyway, there is such a lot I would like to write. The last few months I took a few little trips, and met with some very nice people, and had some special experiences, AND I even took the pictures to prove it..

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So. Soon it'll be November once more. Time to write? Sure.BUTThis year is special.1. I now have a social life, and each weekend of the beautiful month of November seems to have already been taken. Oh yes, and I work every Tuesday. And I have this wonderful boyfriend. Hmmmm...2. I'll be writing my MA thesis as well. (Well, MA equivalent. The BA/MA system will only be implemented for my studies in

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Whoops!I just realised that I started this blog over a year ago. Way to go!And it's been a great year! It hasn't made me the world's greatest blogger, but still, writing sometimes, and reading other blogs a lot of the time is good. :)I'll be gone for a week now because we're (we being my family and my sisters boyfriend, mine can't come, meh) going on holiday to Croatia, where I've never been

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Last night I finished the seventh Potter book. Finally! Very interesting to see which of my predictions came true, and which didn't. ;)Last Saturday, one of my friends married. She's the first from my class at school to marry...actually, the first of all my friends to marry. It was pretty much perfect, as I knew it would be, knowing her. Maybe I can add some pictures later, when I managed to get

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Hello all!I'm back from the Study Sphere!Today I had my big big English literature exam, the whole lot, from Middle Ages til now. 40 minutes of high-octane talking. But it's done. The big evil exam that I have been fearing for years is over. And I did really well, amazingly. So I'm here, briefly. Because...today, finally...I was allowed (by myself) to buy the new Potter novel, and will be reading

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I received a letter today from my friend Kris, who is currently doing research in northern Australia. (Thank you!)For some reason she sent a football card. (Let me know why at some stage, eh? Not that I'm complaining or something. ;D) And lookie, it is a golden one! Very pretty, considering. It shows the (previously unknown to me) "Gold Trio" of Shane Tuck, Kane Johnson and Brett Deledio. I think

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I have this strange urge to send postcards around the world. So if anyone who reads this wants a/some postcard(s), or a letter with postcard included, or anything like that, let me know! Else I might soon subject the world to random acts of letter-writing!Also, if randomness attracts you, why not try this?Send a Message in a Bottle!

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I have now been 25 years old for a week. Do I feel older? Do I feel worse? Do I hear my bones crack whenever I walk?No, I don't feel older. I feel pretty good.No, I don't feel worse. I feel so much better than last year.Yes, sometimes I do hear my knees make funny noises, but they have done so for ages. :PThe last year, or let's say the last 11 months, have been so exciting, so much fun! So much

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I guess it IS pretty obvious by now that I love taking tests. And today I found an especially nice one on Carolyne's blog. Took some time, but the results seem to be quite good, so here they are. You can also read the full text here. I especially like the part about how I relate to others, since I currently don't see myself as much of an artist - seeing as I don't to anything but read and meet

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Wohooo! Life has been very exciting lately!What with "meeting potential in-laws" (as we like to say here, as a joke), ie meeting my boyfriends family (which are all very nice), my mum's 50th birthday (huge party!) and another big big exam done (only one left now, yeah!)...oh, and all those other small things in between...it's been busy. :)Anyway, kwoozy asked me (a while ago, too, ahem) to write

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I'll be gone for the weekend.Not that I posted regularly lately and need to alert my readers that I am gone for a few days lest they worry for me. No, not that.Still, I will be gone. I have been invited to go somewhere else. Haha!For today I have been invited to dinner. And the rest of the weekend I will be staying at a beautiful little town with beautiful woods and parks and I will be going for

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Now, some may know that I am an avid reader of (almost) all things fantasy. And three of the books that I discovered in the past few years, and which I heart and love and have read twice already, make the His Dark Materials Trilogy.These books are now being filmed. Film no.1 will be shown in cinemas come December. And to celebrate it all, they have made a homepage (with trailer!).If you know the

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Well, I have no pictures to prove it, but last week I both finally put the finishing touches to the scarf I finished knitting ages ago...my first self-knit scarf, btw - AND I made myself a skirt. A skirt that is no good at all for cycling (I tried), and not so good for my usual (fast) walking speed, but...a skirt. A nice, summery, non-black (hooray!) skirt. With elastic band inserted. Wohooo! Now

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Soooo, since I still don't have any crafting or refashioning news (though some may be posted soon), and I don't want to go on blabbering about how nice spring is, and I have been wanting to do this for ages - here is my second post about the wonders of Etsy shopping! The first one, if you remember, was on earrings, this one will be about T-shirts. Because I love t-shirts, and people on Etsy make

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So, another two weeks and more have passed, and I didn't post anything new. Well. Crafting is down to nil at the moment. Swapping also. Refashioning also (although I am not buying anything new either). What is up is reading. What is up is meeting with people. What is up is cleaning up my room and throwing old stuff out. Not too bad, I guess.I had my big exam last week and I passed. Only sort of

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I just looked up a word in my favourite online dictionary.Apparently, what I am currently "suffering" from is called 'spring fever' in English. Sounds suspiciously like hay fever, but hey, the dictionary must know, right?Anyway, it's a strange thing, but...yeah. Words fail me right now. (Especially because I'm dead tired!)I still had no sleep, and I need to get it now. 48+ hours with only 6-7

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I just did another personality "test". HA!Your Hidden TalentYour natural talent is interpersonal relations and dealing with people.You communicate well and are able to bring disparate groups together.Your calming presence helps everything go more smoothly.People crave your praise and complements.What's Your Hidden Talent?

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Don't worry if the title of this post isn't making much sense to you - it's past 3am, as I'm having myself a nightshift - I need to hand in this paper by 12am today, and only started writing last evening, ie, about 5 hours ago. That's me, superorganised. :PAnyway, I just found this beautiful poem by e.e.cummings and thought I would let the world know.i carry your heart with me(i carry it inmy

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Last week, the family PC broke down. Since then, I've been using my fathers laptop, since mine is not yet connected (maybe in one or two weeks, yay!). But I'm not going to put any of my pictures on this laptop, sorry.Anyway, here's what I'm currently doing:Uni:Writing paper no.3 (of 5) which should have been finished ages ago. Anyway, I only started writing today and got half of it done, other

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Yesterday I was alerted to the fact that an online bookstore in Austria was having a 1€ per book sale on certain English books. I found many nice things there, and amongst them, a book called "Wallpaper in Interior Decoration". Now, how could I not put that book into my basket?But today, even though I registered and all that, my basket was empty. I had to fill it up again. But the wallpaper book

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This was one exciting weekend, as I've been out and about all the time!Saturday was the "Go to Vienna to collect ten boxes full of books"-Day. We (=me and three friends) drove up to Vienna in this cool orange "thing" - well, it was a car, I just have no idea how to call this sort of car in English. Sort of like a pickup truck, but with the back covered. Weeell, maybe I'll manage to get a

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I wanted to do this anyway, but apparently I need to post notices about it, since I received another request just yesterday.So: I will finish the swaps I am currently in, and then no more until probably autumn. I need my head as free as possible for studying and thesis writing and *gulp* work.I noticed in January and these first two weeks of February how much these things distract me - yesterday

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This is the package that I received from Melissa in Singapore. I think it arrived the day after Meshell's, but my parents didn't take this one away from me (not fast enough, hehehe) so I could open it immediately. :)And here are the goodies she sent:First of all, she sent these three pieces of clothing, which are just fantastic: two red tops and a beautiful satiny skirt.What has become very

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And it deserves the capital letters!Finally, I will post about the big package that arrived 5 days before Christmas and which was kept unopened until Christmas Eve.Now, I took several pictures of the package, and always left something out. Things that I forget to photograph in the first session I put into the second, where I forgot things I had used the first time around. So I'm just going to

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I had to put that cheerleading smiley into my header, for a short while at least. Isn't it cute?(If it annoys you to death, hit Esc and don't refresh. :P)I'm currently trying to cheer myself on to get some things done that should have been done ages ago. Maybe this will mean blog posts. Maybe this will mean I will finally do my ironing, after not doing it for many many weeks.I'm also currently

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Just so you know I wasn't kidding you about the knitting...This is what I got done on Wednesday and Thursday - no knitting today as first I wildly overslept, then I did some actual uni work in the afternoon, and in the evening I spent my time searching the internet for stuff etc. :POn the right, the scarf I started with, simple garter stitch. I folded it at the top because I just discovered a

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Some people may already know the sad story about me and knitting. I was supposed to learn it in school (in first grade of highschool I think), but the project we did was so completely stupid and useless that my parents had to force me to do every little row. Then I guess a few years after that I once asked my mum to show me, although I can't really remember that. Then, last winter, before

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Sooo, I've managed to catch another cold. Bah. There I go wishing for colder weather so we can at least pretend it's winter...cold weather I get, and my tissue usage rate rockets again. *sighs*Yesterday, I had to get up way to early for "holidays", that is, 7.30, which I managed to make my "normal getting up time" for the whole of January - I'm so proud of myself. Still, yesterday, it was hell,

Felnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31968779.post-44057966610035356922007-02-04T01:33:00.000+01:002008-12-10T02:37:52.126+01:00

On Friday I discovered that one of the wonderful new friends I made here in Graz since summer has a blog of her own. And apparently she is very good about it and posts almost every day, about what is going on in her life. For me, who has turned into Miss Lazy Poster, this sounds fab! So I guess I could write a bit more about my daily life and stuff as well, instead of taking a break with posting

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