For weeks now I've had this feelings that my life is suddenly crammed with... I don't quite know how to phrase it, but social stuff - friends, emotional decisions, social life in general, all the "real life" stuff I used to not have that much of. Fandom has always been a bit of a compensation for this lack (even though it was in some ways a lack I ( Read more... )

So for years now I've hated my birthday because it either led to drama or I didn't celebrate it properly. This year finally broke that spell! I had a great party on Saturday (and Sunday morning... I got to sleep around 9 am for two and a half hours) and my guests looked like they had fun and those who didn't know each other got on really well. Most ( Read more... )

Happy New Year to those of you for whom it is a new year ( Read more... )

Week two of teacher internship is over. Taught my first German lesson (on narrators and text interpretation at nearly A-Level level) and it went well. I have no problem whatsoever teaching older pupils (about 17-18), in fact, I enjoy it. My one problem is that I can't stop myself from smiling or laughing when they do silly stuff, so I undermine my ( Read more... )

Met up with BFF for our usual sleep-over/movie night and some time during out True Blood watching she said, "Writer for a TV series would be a really cool job!" and one thing lead to another and I showed her the shalkastories audio project I'm working on. BFF is not a DW person, but she knows fanfic, and was quite impressed with us, particularly the part where ( Read more... )

Warning: do not click cut if you only want to squee.

( Spoilers for Day of the Moon )

For years, I've wondered if maybe I should apply for a scholarship, but I always decided that I probably wouldn't qualify (my grades are good enough, but usually, they want more than just good grades...). This morning, my mother woke me up by tossing a pile of mail into my bed and one of the letters I opened was from the major scholarship ( Read more... )

Yesterday night was spent in Karlsruhe. I went to see The Dark Knight with a couple of friends. As an extra surprise, one of them baked little bat-symbol baked biscuits and cookies. Edible batarangs ( Read more... )

Audio novels are the work of the devil. They enable me to get lost in worlds of imagination even while WALKING AROUND OUTSIDE and thus cause me to APPEAR LIKE A TOTAL LOON in public ( Read more... )

Did my first presentation for this semester (High German Consonant shift - enormously boring) and it went very well despite my almost complete lack of preparation. Also, it was a partner work effort, but the girl I worked with luckily is a good acquaintance and very efficient, so my usual horror of partner/group work was not confirmed ( Read more... )