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Usually when you read about teachers in the news, you read about American women teachers having sex with their very willing students and getting around 60 years of prison for it. Today it was about a Romanian teacher. He wrote a book. And, God save us, because the end of the world is coming, there are ( Read more... )

This week has been back-to-work week. It also meant a return to the extreme temperatures we thought (for a whole week!) gone for good. 40C - hello again! Officially, this has been dubbed the hottest summer in the last 40 years, which makes it the hottest (not as in 'the sexiest') summer of my life too. Luckily the days are already shorter and it ( Read more... )

I couldn't care less about the Olympics. I'm sick of going on Facebook and seeing the overflow of posts about it. And I don't understand this national pride thing. If an athlete has managed to get a medal, he or she are the ones who should feel pride, not some unrelated people who watch them on tv. Reading comments like "the room fell silent as the ( Read more... )

First, I am annoyed with the weather. The rain made me miss the wonderful meteor shower in the weekend and the sudden cold meant I also caught a cold. So here I am, red-nosed and indisposed. I need another cup of hot tea ( Read more... )

I'm getting sick of the massive anti-smoking campaigns. Not only they put horror photos on all packs of cigarettes, but now I hear some countries want to leave out the brand name completely, so the pack of cigs would only have the scary pic on it. I think this is excessive. Smoking is bad for you. But so is eating McDonalds and I don't see huge ( Read more... )

I've just got back from the local farmer's market. Except for cucumbers, everything was very expensive. I guess the veggies are very sensitive to the Euro/Romanian currency leu report, the price of gas and the real estate situation. The potatoes are stressed about the new Labor Code. The peas have gone green of worry for the new administrative ( Read more... )

A few days ago I've read an article written by someone I used to admire a lot - a great Romanian writer and thinker, a most refined intellectual and all around awesome guy, Andrei Plesu. The article was about the famous gay baby poster that, apparently, appeared in Romania too.


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Mmm... home improvements for LJ! Let's hope this is a sign that LJ will work fine from now on. Like there's any way to be sure... Maybe LJ is just fighting with its last powers against becoming an out-of-fashion ghost town of the internet. (Anybody remembers myspace?) Like facebook is supposed to become in max 10 years. By then we'll all ( Read more... )

When a fic is presented as being humor/romance it usually means it's written in first person and the narrator/main character (who, of course, thinks like a 9 year old girl) is a self-centered whiny emo bitch who acts like a complete asshole and keeps talking about all kinds of inconsistent (incontinent) crap, kinda like this: "blah blah bla, I am ( Read more... )