Ah yes, the day no one was prepared for. When Good and Evil (scientists are convinced that a trick has been played on us and it's actually Evil and Evil) took human form to scourge humanity till the end of time. I, for one, rejoice!

Happy birthday, Twins!

Okay, so far I got lots of reading done for my Spanish linguistic class and also started practicing translations for the Spanish intermediate exam. It's still a while until I have to take it, but there will be enough papers and reports to do till then. I want to be prepared.

Yay for spring.*groans*

This semester is going to kill me. Three presentations (One in Spanish, eek!), three papers, and an intermediate exam in Spanish waiting directly at the end of the semester.

Additionally, I hate the first week of semester. There's always so much to do and so many coronaries to survive whenever the professors tell you what work you got to in order to get a grade. Or that yes, you will ALSO have to do all the work which the people who want a grade have to do although you don't need one. It should soon settle into a steady working rythm though, which will then allow me more time for LJ again. Only one or two more Why Me Breakdowns or so and we're good.

One the upside, the weather ROCKS right now! It's actually fun to drive to uni by bike!

A belated HAPPY BIRTHDAY, sabaceanbabe!

I hope yesterday has been fantastic for you. :)

I'm bored. I like movies.

BANG!

A meme.

1. Pick 15 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions.
6. Two quotes are from German movies, translated into English.

( Under the cut )

Alas! I have just watched the last episode of Dark Angel.

( My thoughts )

But what now? No more Dark Angel, NCIS on a personal hiatus ... TV Land, do not abandon me!

Everyone knows this picture, right? Its history?

Or this one's:



Yesterday, a friend of mine and I were discussing historical events of which a moment so poignant, so descriptive of what occured has been captured that it actually fulfills this (admittedly worn-out) saying "a picture says more than thousand words". Those photographs become a symbol, the pavlovian first thought one has when speaking of the event it is connected with.

It's truly amazing, if you ask me. How one picture can embody so many emotions one has connected with what happened; or how it can make you speechless; how it can put you on the same page with someone opposing your opinion about a certain event - if only for a moment, at least.

Other moments/photographs we could think of are (and I really don't feel like posting some of them here):

- The raising of the American flag on Iwo Jima
- The little girl with her burned skin after Hiroshima
- The dead soldier who had been dragged through Somalia
- The first footstep on the moon

I'd love to have more of those captured moments, but I couldn't think of any so far. So if you have anything, feel free to add. A link or description only, if you feel that the moment is too gruesome for being displayed. One rule: no pictures of famous people. Sure, a picture of Martin Luther King says a lot, but it is rather Martin Luther King who is the message than the picture.

I brought an interesting video as a token of my deep sense of guilt for neglecting everyone. Watch, enjoy, and please excuse me while I return to my decadent life of a student who has fallen into the trap of doing nothing. (And of getting highly addicted to NCIS and Dark Angel. If you ask me, you deserve being ignored for again letting me fall for shows so hard. Dammit, I hardly occupy myself with anything else. Shame on you! All of you!)

But video.

Okay, watch with open eyes, then with closed eyes, and then tell me which sound you hear.



Isn't it amazing how much we still rely on visuals?

People! Should there ever be a meet-up again (and I hope there will be), then it must be in the US and in fall! I'm losing hours here!

Do you all remember the Spring Ahead we had last Saturday? Yes? I'll have it again on the 30th of March! Time is being stolen here!

I'm gonna have to watch TV now to get over the shock.

I'm still MIA. But dudes, most of the stuff I had (and still have) to prepare came out of nowhere! Some professors are more than evil, they're...FOX.

I hope to be able to get most of the stuff done until Thursday.

Evil, I tell thee.

There's just a lot of stuff going on right now, especially uni and related learning.
And for ten minutes now I have tried to write something more interesting in here, but I noticed that i can't even remember how to spell words correctly. So that's my entire message for now.

1. You grin a lot.

2. You giggle a lot.

3. You don't go to bed although you really (needs more emphazise) really should.

4. Because you don't go to bed, you grin a lot. Go back to no 1.


There have been some comments I really wanted to answer but didn't get to this week-end. Sorry to everyone I keep waiting.


As for this week-end, it has been a blast. Especially today. Did you guys know how much fun it is to go to a planetarium? Seriously, I think I strained some muscles from grinning so much during the show we watched there. It was about the possibility of life in space and basically gave a lot of information I already knew. What exactely stars and galaxies are, how planets evolved, how many there possibly are, how they can be discovered, etc. But it was done in such a beautiful and moving way! You leaned back and watched this wonderfully rendered and technically perfect film which - accompanied by fantastic music - gave you the feeling of, well, of actually floating through space.

And then I went home and got a self-made John Crichton mobile from a friend. Cracking up shortly after floating through space is a really nice feeling.

But I really ought to go to bed.

You know the scene - a man or woman in a film or show walks into his or her office one morning and is still wearing the same clothes as the day before. The question that now shoots through everyone's head is "Who has he/she been sleeping with?"

So apparently, clothes worn on two succesive days is a big no no and always implies that you must have had no chance of changing your clothes. Ergo: you have slept at someone else's house.

My question now is whether you guys really see it like that. I mean not necessarily the jumping to the conclusion that if you don't change your clothes you have slept with someone, but that clothes aren't worn on two successive days and you'll be getting stares if you do so.

Because frankly, I'd hardly ever sleep at home if that were the case. I hardly ever throw my clothes in the laundry after one day of wearing them (only if they stink for some reason, of course) and that sometimes results in me wearing them again the next day.

So be honest: If I were to work in your country, would I be considered the biggest slut on earth?

The rules are easy, just post 10 things that recently made you happy! Then tag 10 people and force them to post this meme on their LJs. Because it is good. Everyone needs a little happiness once in a while.

No tagging cause most of my flist has already been tagged anyway. But if you wanna do it, please go ahead!

1. Florida is drawing closer! Plans are being made!
2. Farscape nights with meritmaat. The talking, the watching, it is all great fun!
3. Creating a booklist with a friend of mine and planning which books we want to read in the future.
4. The looking forward to seeing another friend of mine tonight, eating pizza, talking the entire night.
5. Being silly with same friend as in no 4 and founding an ultra cool gang involving gloves and celebrities. Current member status: 2.
6. Every time I'm home and 60 pound Henry jumps on my lap.
7. Every time I'm home and, while being jumped on by Henry, my clothes are being simultaneously pulled at by Oscar. It is not in the spirit of being a good dog, but it is oh so cute!
8. Getting a season of 21 Jump Street for Christmas and reliving the eighties through it. No mobiles anywhere! No computers!
9. The efforts of a friend of mine to import 'frell' into everday language. She is being so cute while trying so hard.
10. Just having answered the phone, expecting a friend, being silly and saying ahoy-hoy, and then noticing that it is a friend of roomie's. Oops!


ETA: I know that strictly speaking not all of those ten answers fall under what "recently has made me happy", but I'm happy thinking about it. I'm a rebel!

Ever since last summer did I want to buy The Complete Calvin and Hobbes. Back then it cost about 73€.

Nah, I thought. You are a poor student, you can wait till Christmas. So I waited. In December then, the price went up to 80€. I got enough money on Christmas so that I could buy the book, but I thought that I should wait a little - the price certainly would drop after Christmas.

It climbed to 107€. I no longer wanted to buy the book for that price, always thinking that I could have had it for 30€ less. Some more waiting, maybe it'll drop again to 80€.

We are now at 125€. *cries*

And I had a wonderful time. I either got up in the mornings and read one of the many books my uncle possesses, or ended up going to a museum, sightseeing, shopping, or other fun activities.
There's nothing very special to tell, actually, but it was quite refreshing.

I hope all of you had a good start into the new year! Jenn, Bets, thank you so much for decorating my lj yet again! It gives me so much joy every time.

I won't comment to all that has aspired these last two weeks (you guys just can't stop living, can ya) and I'm not even sure I will read through everything tonight. (I've been abnormally tired these last few days and am again today.)

It's called Hide And Seek On A Crisp Winter Night.

Two people had to hide (equipped with a flashlight and a night vision device) and two had to search (equipped with two dogs). I think I'm going to get a bladder infection from lying on the groung for too long (we just hid too well!) but it was totally worth it!

On another note, I returned home for the holidays yesterday!
I don't know how much time I will have during the next few days; a lot of stuff is planned. On the 26th then my father and I will visit my aunt for a couple of days (or a week); I don't expect much lj time there, either.

So here is a merry Christmas to all those who celebrate and a hope for some relaxing and enjoyable free days for all of you who don't!

Take care!

I think I already did this some time ago.
But since it is a) some time ago and b) for meritmaat (a poor soul who apparently has no idea yet who she is dealing with ... my condolences) I don't mind doing it again.

10) Humming. A problem I've been having since forever and which has gotten worse. Usually I subconsciously noticed when people were around but ... that awesome ability is disappearing!
09) As soon as I reach home, my pants magically transform themselves into pyjama pants.
08) A couple of weeks ago a friend and I discussed the unfariness of death being non-gradable. Thinking of several examples, we came to the conclusion that this should be modified. Normal people, for example, are deadest; yet Daniel Jackson very clearly is (or better was) merely dead. Also applicable to religions. Atheists are clearly deadest while people believing in reincarnation are only dead.
07) My family on my father's side has superior eating powers; we beat everyone speed-wise (My mother obviously excluded, no blood-relations). We deduce that it comes from cutting our food while chewing.
06) Those typical jokes with a punchline never make me laugh.
05) I can't multi-task. At all.
04) Still not having a mobile phone, and am still entirely convinced of not getting one.
03) I hate summer.
02) Save the whales! Save the environment! No nuclear power plants! Squish spiders.
01) I apologize to people when I told them that I would be off to bed and then post at lj.


P.S.: Yes, Jenn. I'm as good as asleep. One foot is in bed already. Stuff happened! People called!

I was just chatting away with Jenn (or at least getting back to it from doing laundry), when my keyboard gave a last cough and then ostensibly died.

Nope, couple of hours later everything is alright again. Maybe it just sympathized with the writers strike. I don't care! I can write again!

So I really don't want to go grocery shopping. At the mere thought of it, I feel gravity pulling me closer and closer to the ground.

But do you think ANYONE is around?! Not here, not when I call them, nowhere!

It's a disgrace! I demand new friends and family. Maybe I'll find some when I'll go grocery shopping in a minute.

Edit: Dammit, my bike has a flat tire and I refuse to battle gravity on my own two legs. I'll just have to learn to do without drinking and will go see if I can find anything cookable in the kitchen.