Green Eggs and Codfisch

1. Bought John Hart and McCoy action figures!!
2. New jeans and a new dress.
3. Saw The Woman in Black in London--scary!
4. Dancing with my friend... in a bus... to Britney Spears
5. Only a few days left until summer!

My gratitudes are getting so boring, I wish I could be grateful for being creative occasionally.

I am grateful I am going home in less than a week. Friday, everyone. Friday I will FINALLY be free of this torture device you call "academics". And I will have a proper summer. This is what proper summers include:

• a swimming pool
• days where you don't wake up until the afternoon, and no one cares!
• bonfires
• mosquito repellent and when that doesn't work, mosquito-be-gone voodoo rituals
• frequent patronage of the cinema
• many, many novels which you didn't have time to read during the year
• camping!
• family

I make myself sick thinking about it. Friday. Friday. That's only four days away. Between Summer and I stands two essays, however. They are very formidable, and they are armed, and they are determined not to let me pass with a good grade.

Oh dear. I fear I am going to write wank just so I can use my sexy "uncalled-for bitching" tag. That's never a good reason for wank.

1. Afternoon tea with scones, cream and strawberries
2. Was able to sort of sleep-in for once
3. Watched old Bleach episodes... wow, brought back all sorts of memories. Beware Bleach fanfic... might be on the way.
4. Memorized all/most my lines for the Brothers Grimm play
5. Went ice-stating

1. Waiting for Godot with Ian McKellen (Dumbledore, Gandalf) and Patrick Stewart (Picard). Was. BRILLIANT.
2. Did not get (very) lost in London (though I could not for the life of me find the Dr Who store)
3. Ate very enjoyable falafel wrap from Nero's Cafe or Coffee or whatever it is
4. I SAW CAPTAIN JEAN-LUC PICARD OF THE USS ENTERPRISE IN PERSON
5. I was supposed to have a "restricted view seat" but I could see the entire stage just fine.

Updated two HP drabbles from my Dreamwidth account.

I'm going into London today and I am literally scared out of my wits.

Where should I go? How should I get there? How do I use public transport? And god, do I really really know where I'm going? And I don't have a watch! How am I going to get anywhere on time? D:

London scares me. When you spend your time cooped up in a city which has a population of 2 million, then suddenly go to one which has a population between 12 and 14 million, you're allowed to be scared.

1. Learned how to play the James Bond theme on the piano.
2. Found an excellent place to get sandwiches--with brie!
3. Saw The Proposal.
4. Ate birthday cake for breakfast!
5. Wrote a very strange short story/stream-of-consciousness experiment.

1. It's my birthday!
2. Bought two new books: Eugene Onegin by Pushkin and short stories by Dostoevsky
3. Was given inflatable grow-your-own boyfriend and girlfriend (are my friends trying to tell me something here about my non-existent love life?)
4. Chinese food for lunch
5. Balloons. Many, many balloons. I am so grateful for balloons.

1. Had a full traditional British breakfast, just the way I like it.
2. Ran through pouring rain with friends and laughed.
3. Got a fun role in a short play.
4. Spoke to some girls in German at a restaurant and realized how much I really love speaking and hearing German.
5. Read an unbearably sweet Boromir/Faramir novella.

My Mädchen in Uniform icons are up now if anyone wants to pop over to my comm for a look, though I don't expect many people have heard of the film. It is beautiful, very sweet and thought-provoking, with my most favourite Austrian/German actress, Romy Schneider, as the protagonist, Manuela von Meinhardis, but with many other good actresses as well.

I did not however get around to another batch of Xena icons... sorry. Maybe later. Real Life is hammering down on me.

IDF things will be up a little late, tomorrow morning for me, but hopefully still July 18 in some parts of the world. I need to code my icons into tables and to be honest I cannot deal with computers right now. My head is swimming.

Those fuckers.

Sorry, guys, but I'll be sticking to Dr Who instead from now on. I've honestly lost the burning desire to watch your show any longer.

And ach, IDF in two days!

I'm back! Back but sick. Not sick but... my voice stopped working. And my throat is REALLY sore. Someone's suggested it was from the altitude, because of all the flights I've been on. I've never heard that altitude could cause a sore throat, but I'm really quite angry it's happened to me. It's really not a great time to have a defective voice.

I'm going to be pretty busy for the next month, so there won't be a lot of updating at all. I have some assignments for the International Day of Femslash, but apart from those I might not post anything.

And may I say: TORCHWOOD. MINISERIES. CLIFFHANGERS. I'm in the UK at the moment and I watched it on television for its first airing and it was quite exciting. I've almost never watched something on TV the first time it aired. I like imagining all the other people in the country watching the same thing at the same time for the first time. And. It is GOOD. I like the plot a lot and I know they'll be able to do something very fantastic and deep with such a long "episode". I just also wish they had a real season 3 planned out in addition to this little miniseries.

1. I am grateful that people seem to like my icons.
2. I had a wonderful day with two good friends.
3. I went on a ride at the amusement park I was terrified of and ended up loving it.
4. I found my two missing Xena discs.
5. My teeth don't hurt anymore.

Five gratitudes idea lifted off of <lj user="hani"/>.

Relatively fun day. I was finally able to indulge in one sleep-in and then went to the amusement park again with a couple friends. Started raining, which is so unfair considering it is June, and it was sunny this morning. I don't think nature should be allowed to lead us on with false promises, do you?

I don't have my own computer anymore, just for a few days, but I feel like such a klutz on this PC. It's slow and impersonal and not as intuitive as a Mac, and I never noticed any of that in the years I preferred PCs. But usually I just try to stay out of the PC vs Mac debate.

Heads up: tomorrow is my last day of Internet for two and half weeks. But I'll natter on and on about Asia once I get back.

Oh, hello! Why is there so much blood in my mouth?!

Brushing your teeth is much more violent than one would expect...

I suppose normal people pack a couple days before they leave. I would assume in that case they don't forget anything vital.

But do you know how much I have to pack tonight? And I have my last final tomorrow as well. I'm getting a box shipped to California, along with a suitcase to England, and I need to pack for Asia, though for that I have until Wednesday.

Brilliant summer or no, I just want to curl up and watch James Bond films in Vienna for the next three months. I TAKE BACK EVERYTHING I SAID. I don't want to go anywhere, I don't want to travel.

Today was my dad's birthday and also the Austrian date for Father's Day, so we gathered up whatever relatives we could find and spent the day at the amusement park. Rollerblading! I haven't been rollerblading in ages, and it was a great place to do it--one long, completely flat road which we shared with a great many cyclists, runners, other rollerbladers and, surprisingly, a vast number of SEGWAYS.

Just what, exactly, is the benefit of using a Segway?

I've looked on their website; according to them, the Segway should be used as transportation, a green alternative to cars and... I suppose... a low-energy alternative to bikes?

That does not explain why there were people apparently strolling up and down on Segways as some sort of replacement for exercise. As a way to take a walk without walking. Enjoy the sun without actually doing any work.

A Segway does not count as exercise!

Why is there bread on my journal? I'm not quite sure. I usually don't like bread. It always seems dry and stale when I could be eating a nice celery stick instead.

I am a major fan of vegetables.

(why yes, this is a useless post of uselessness)

I should have icons to go with this, but I wanted to get this uploaded as soon as I finished it.

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Screencap by me.