I'm still alive
Finished my final paper about religion in Battlestar Galactica and handed it in on Tuesday. Pheww.
Got my term paper about Conrad's "Outpost of Progress" back today. It's a solid 1, which is probably the best grade I've ever gotten in college. My teacher wrote lovely stuff about my paper, and I'm just really happy she liked it. It was fun to write (you know, once I got over my aversion writing any term papers at all. ^^), and I could basically spend the whole 2o pages criticizing the Victorian mindset and out them as lying liars who lied. I didn't even need to go into the reasons why Conrad of all people would oppose colonization (he was a victim of the Russian "colonization" of Poland) to get my point across. It was glorious. Thanks to jekesta and leviathans_moon for the beta.
I'll spend the weekend at home, which means a) that I'll get to cuddle with mom, b) that I'll get lovely restaurant food on Sunday and c) I'll make it to the writers' circle meeting tomorrow ... which also means I probably should write another snippet of the ongoing adventures of Tom and Death. Maybe I'll write about Death getting them a penguin this time.
I'll have my interview with the researcher for political education and how it influences the lives of people on Tuesday. I'm supposed to tell my life story ... which ... oh gosh, everyone who knows me knows that my memory is one giant black hole. I simply don't remember stuff. I probably should get Tine So. to write me a cheat sheet or something. And frankly, I don't believe that me being a guide for the Anne Frank exhibition in 9th grade (which is why they approached me for the interview) influenced my development that much. I knew about Nazi Germany and the horrors it entailed before that, and I honestly believe that this one Easter weekend in Berlin when we visited the Jewish Museum and the Holocaust Memorial and the Wannsee Conference villa in the span of 48 hours had much more impact on me than anything else. I felt physically sick after two hours in the villa and had to sit outside in the garden because I couldn't bear it anymore.
In other news, I think the world has gone slightly more than crazy with SOPA, IPA and ATCTA. What is ACTA, you ask? Watch and learn.
As far as I know, the treaty was signed by the EU today -- with virtually no coverage by the media. I'm appalled and horrified by this. They don't seem to understand how the internet works. There are no borders for it. It's the most unifying thing I've ever experienced. You simply cannot go and say we have to turn back time and obey geographical borders. You cannot tell me you have to watch my every move in the internet to protect some copyright. You cannot tell me I have no right to watch a show or read an article because I do not hold the copyright. And you want to know why? Because you still live in the 2oth century and your copyright didn't change for the past hundred years or so. BUT IT DOESN'T WORK THIS WAY ANYMORE! I'm PERFECTLY willing to pay money to watch shows and movies from the US and the UK the same time the US and the UK get to watch it, but you do not even give me the chance. You make me wait months and years for some crappy dubbing or you refuse to give me the show at all. This is not how it works anymore. This is bullshit. You refuse to acknowledge a worldwide, educated audience who knows what it wants. You refuse to acknowledge the fact the internet moved past distances a long time ago. I'm furious. FURIOUS. And I refuse to stand by and simply let it happen. I never thought I'd say it, but tonight I'm going to a meeting of the Piratenpartei. Yup, that's right. The party which name I mocked, but maybe they know what to do. Didn't go because I couldn't find my new bahncard for my train ride tomorrow, so I spent two hours cleaning up my room and searching for it like a maniac. Turns out I accidently threw the letter with it in the box for my paper waste. Thank goodness for the recycling madness we Germans are prone to, I wouldn't have gotten it back if I had thrown it into my regular bin.
(appropriate gif is appropriate)
Got my term paper about Conrad's "Outpost of Progress" back today. It's a solid 1, which is probably the best grade I've ever gotten in college. My teacher wrote lovely stuff about my paper, and I'm just really happy she liked it. It was fun to write (you know, once I got over my aversion writing any term papers at all. ^^), and I could basically spend the whole 2o pages criticizing the Victorian mindset and out them as lying liars who lied. I didn't even need to go into the reasons why Conrad of all people would oppose colonization (he was a victim of the Russian "colonization" of Poland) to get my point across. It was glorious. Thanks to jekesta and leviathans_moon for the beta.
I'll spend the weekend at home, which means a) that I'll get to cuddle with mom, b) that I'll get lovely restaurant food on Sunday and c) I'll make it to the writers' circle meeting tomorrow ... which also means I probably should write another snippet of the ongoing adventures of Tom and Death. Maybe I'll write about Death getting them a penguin this time.
I'll have my interview with the researcher for political education and how it influences the lives of people on Tuesday. I'm supposed to tell my life story ... which ... oh gosh, everyone who knows me knows that my memory is one giant black hole. I simply don't remember stuff. I probably should get Tine So. to write me a cheat sheet or something. And frankly, I don't believe that me being a guide for the Anne Frank exhibition in 9th grade (which is why they approached me for the interview) influenced my development that much. I knew about Nazi Germany and the horrors it entailed before that, and I honestly believe that this one Easter weekend in Berlin when we visited the Jewish Museum and the Holocaust Memorial and the Wannsee Conference villa in the span of 48 hours had much more impact on me than anything else. I felt physically sick after two hours in the villa and had to sit outside in the garden because I couldn't bear it anymore.
In other news, I think the world has gone slightly more than crazy with SOPA, IPA and ATCTA. What is ACTA, you ask? Watch and learn.
Click to viewAs far as I know, the treaty was signed by the EU today -- with virtually no coverage by the media. I'm appalled and horrified by this. They don't seem to understand how the internet works. There are no borders for it. It's the most unifying thing I've ever experienced. You simply cannot go and say we have to turn back time and obey geographical borders. You cannot tell me you have to watch my every move in the internet to protect some copyright. You cannot tell me I have no right to watch a show or read an article because I do not hold the copyright. And you want to know why? Because you still live in the 2oth century and your copyright didn't change for the past hundred years or so. BUT IT DOESN'T WORK THIS WAY ANYMORE! I'm PERFECTLY willing to pay money to watch shows and movies from the US and the UK the same time the US and the UK get to watch it, but you do not even give me the chance. You make me wait months and years for some crappy dubbing or you refuse to give me the show at all. This is not how it works anymore. This is bullshit. You refuse to acknowledge a worldwide, educated audience who knows what it wants. You refuse to acknowledge the fact the internet moved past distances a long time ago. I'm furious. FURIOUS. And I refuse to stand by and simply let it happen. I never thought I'd say it, but tonight I'm going to a meeting of the Piratenpartei. Yup, that's right. The party which name I mocked, but maybe they know what to do. Didn't go because I couldn't find my new bahncard for my train ride tomorrow, so I spent two hours cleaning up my room and searching for it like a maniac. Turns out I accidently threw the letter with it in the box for my paper waste. Thank goodness for the recycling madness we Germans are prone to, I wouldn't have gotten it back if I had thrown it into my regular bin.
(appropriate gif is appropriate)