Two more spiders are down... I swear, they are everywhere. As soon as my flat is nice and dry (= spring) they think my flat is their party central. I found one in a tea cup...

In search of a new fandom I checked out Being Human (UK). It started promising and then broke my heart by making me hate the main characters with a passion.

( Bashing and SPOILERS )

When I suffer from writer’s block, I mostly tend to do two things: google and read all the “how to be a writer”s I can find and download “writing software”. I came across the first writer software in one of the “how to”s and I was amazed by the amount of helpful tools for the desperate/eager writer. Growing up believing all you need to write is ( Read more... )

After a pretty dull, depressing week I had a fabulous weekend. My scottish lovebirds visited me for two days so we went out on Friday night. I think, the "wild night out" was just what I needed (not so sure about those shots, though) and I had a relaxing Saturday recovering from it.

Sunday I went to J's place and stayed a lot longer then I probably ( Read more... )

I finished the blog-thingy!

Enjoy (?) my ramblings about manners or the lack thereof:

( Auf zum Blog!!! )

Basically, I spent the last two weeks bitching about work and (re)watching Spaced, Black Books, How do you want me?, Run Fat Boy Run, Shaun of the Dead and every Dylan Moran Stand-up program on YouTube.

And now I am spreading the love - enjoy ^^

( Dylan Moran - Monster Part1 )

After just having spent amazing and sunny days in London with clexy  I went back there last week, but this time for a conference.

My flight was terrible delayed and I forgot to bring the number of the hotel with me, so I ended up ringing the bell at 00:30 - and no one opened. I tried it for nearly half an hour before I thought Screw that and tried ( Read more... )

I survived my first year of teaching. Hooray. And I think, most of my students did too. The last teaching-weekend was spent at a beautiful estate, where we didn't see any salmons but drank an enormous amount of tea and red wine and the students successfully wrecked the drawing room.

I spent four glorious sunny days in London with clexy_operative  where we got a ( Read more... )

Perfect start in the weekend with awesome company and the getting drunk at 4 pm. Back on track with the writing stuff and cleaning the flat.
Also; one week down, two to go. Then tons of marking and then glorious, glorious freedom.

Check this out (snatched from aramis_chan )

( Better then it sounds )