Of course, after talking about the schedule being more reliable, I was bit completely in the ass by having to sub the last two classes yesterday, which took away the time I would've needed to get home before conferences to do at least some basic shopping or sth. Conferences dragged on until 18:15, with the result that I was away from home from 6:30 ( Read more... )

In accordance with the prophecy and year-long planning, we attended the big Lower Rhenian trade fair last weekend. There, although I may be one of the biggest Luddites of my generation, I was finally convinced of the usefulness of tablets. I know I know, everyone uses them but I just didn't see the point so far. But now I finally acquired one.

( Cut for pics, rambling and silliness )

Yeah, I owe you (or rather myself) a shitload of updates on my personal real life, so I shouldn't talk politics instead. Especially in the light of recent events, which have really rather taken all the humour out of the Brexit debate ( Read more... )

Man, I'm not someone who believes in using all-lowercase in order to express depression and exhaustion, but if I did, this entry would be written in all-lowercase. And without punctuation ( Read more... )

After weeks of suffering from sore, swollen gums, Julian got his two lower front teeth at once. Nobody takes me seriously when I tell them this, because they tend to not notice the tiny little incisors, until Julian takes their fingers into his mouth (he still loves to chew on things) and, instead of tough but round gums, they feel sharp little ( Read more... )

I gave up on my "rebel" NaNo on Friday -- at 46K and with almost three days to go. 4000 words are doable in three days (or one for that matter) so this annoys me, but there was no way to steal enough computer time without neglecting the household and the Advent preparations (one wreath, two calendars) even more. Also had to attend the birthday ( Read more... )

Yesterday we had a minor (or maybe major? I'm not yet sure) familial crisis because of... Shockheaded Peter.

For those of you who are blessed in not knowing the book, let me just say that in my personal opinion Shockheaded Peter should only be looked at by people who are also old enough to emotionally handle movies rated 16+. The only people who ( Read more... )

You know, the book covers for the most recent Temeraire novels might actually make me cave in and get myself an e-reader at last ( Read more... )

When I look at some of the political/social discussions on Tumblr, I'm actually happy that LJ is going out of fashion. (Although of course these debates take place on LJ, too -- but you have to join the respective communities, or friend the right people, to get in on them. And the actual heat is elsewhere. On Tumblr, everything is everywhere all ( Read more... )

OK. Homeland time.
(I recently had a Homeland/Silmarillion crossover dream. BRAIN, SRSLY.)
Anyway.

So we watched Episode I/7 (yes, we've only now started, shut up). Which has the big cliffhanger question towards the end when Aileen describes the man who's been on the roof, and now the big question is WAS IT BRODY, WELL, WAS IT?
( OK I guess it's time for a spoiler cut in case anyone else hasn't seen this series yet )