(hat gut gefegt)
(ham wir zersägt)

What better way to spend a sunny afternoon in October than to plod down to the local sports pitch to watch a bunch of athletes running around and scoring goals in the blinding autumn light?
ABOUT A THOUSAND WAYS I would have said, until yesterday.


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and the Advent season is upon us and soon the year will be over. Felix keeps asking why the year went so fast. I don't think I ever felt that years were going by too fast when I was that young. Birthdays were over too fast, yes. Vacations were over too fast. But years were endless things, and I would not for the life of me have dreamt of feeling in ( Read more... )

I suspect this may be the happiest thing of the week! Seriously, I love these photos. You can see that the kids are taking it really seriously! Beautiful ( Read more... )

Schockierend, schockierend: Ich werde erstmals NICHT am Prämierentag den neuen Harry Potter sehen *schluchz*. Dafür würde ich gern nach der Prüfung am Samstag oder am Sonntag reingehen, um wenigstens kurzfristig auf andere Gedanken zu kommen und mich ein bissel zu belohnen (ob ich das dann verdient haben werde, ist eine andere Frage, aber ich will ( Read more... )

When on Monday I bought (among other things) a bottle of white wine, I was - wait for it - asked for ID ( Read more... )

Ok, ok, ich zahl ja schon in die Wortspielkasse ein ( Read more... )

Flist, I am disappointed.
There's a new Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince trailer and NOBODY posts about it? What's up with that? It isn't even a bad trailer! I mean, it's downright epic!

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In other news,

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( SPOILER SPOILERY SPOILERS. DO NOT CLICK IF YOU HAVEN'T READ DEATHLY HALLOWS. )

Ratlos in Rohan 15

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I dreamt this night that I had the new Harry Potter book and it only had 180 pages and I'd read the whole thing within an hour. It was disappointing.

I almost had a panic flash at work when I thought my evil co-student assistant was going to read out actual spoilers.

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'náro and Darcy have just hunted their first mouse. Applause for the two hunters please ( Read more... )