I have been working on a post about how I am really more of a dog person, but I had to scrap it. I shifted my animal-shelter working from Monday to Sunday (more time for driving lessons, and they needed people more on Sunday) and last week was quite interesting ( Read more... )

Phew, what a night. Between trying to get Ty Pennington a birthday gift and navigating my way through his and Neil Gaiman's castle, I'm beat ( Read more... )

Had a great day translating today. Over 1900 words! (And 364 words an hour, more than double the requirement for this week at the Simulation Bureau of Fake Officeness.) It's not really fair, though, because it's a Dutch-to-English text for a party supply webshop, so most of the phrases are 'Garland Hearts Red'. Not even 'Garland with red hearts', ( Read more... )

Managed to meander on through last week and easter weekend with my flu-cold-sore-throat-oh-god-and-now-an-ear-ache. It's weird, I was sick, but not sick enough to actually feel sorry for myself and spend the day in bed, so I just took a bunch of cold medication and did the stuff I had planned (dentist visit, lots of driving lessons, haircut, IKEA ( Read more... )

Who has two thumbs and managed to get sick in 20 degree weather? THIS GIRL ( Read more... )

Had my first full public transit trip back to Belgium in... yonks. At least three months. I kind of miss the trip to Heino, which was just a bus and a train, instead of a bus, 15 minutes of waiting, a train, 45 minutes to an hour of waiting, and another bus. I got shit done on the train in between my internship and home ( Read more... )

I just realised I have updated this journal twice in the last two months. What the hell happened? I mean, the internship was kind of brutal (how do people work fulltime AND cook AND do their laundry? I could barely manage working and micro-waving meals/making salades). But so was my internship at Amnesty, and I posted like a boss back then ( Read more... )

When the hell did those weeks go by ( Read more... )

The last three weeks I have been telling myself: I should really update my LJ. So: LJ update! I am alive, I am well and my life is pretty damn awesome, just busy ( Read more... )

Just in case I was getting too excited about the holidays, I get an e-mail that I failed my thesis. Or rather that my thesis 'has to be entirely revised'. I'm not even sure what that means, but god damn it, if she makes one comment about income and wage being the same thing, I am shouting at her ( Read more... )