Yes. It's official. I'm doing precious little. Almost nothing. After a year of hard writing, translating and working my lovely behind off, I'm enjoying a few relatively work-free days. Sure, I'm going to the lab nearly every day, but I'm just doing research and helping my tutor with some project stuff. I'm not translating, proof-reading or ( Read more... )

Sorry for not updating as promised. The pictures are still here somewhere, except that I was unable to sort them and post them, as I fell ill with fever on Sunday evening and has not completely recovered so far. I'm not sure what was wrong with me, because apart from fever around 39°C, chills and mild nausea I had no other symptoms. The fever is ( Read more... )

   One week should be long enough, right? Maybe. I still feel as if someone has hit me with a hammer, though. Still, I had to do the final proof-reading of the translation I had done before we left for Japan and deal with some university-related tasks. And with some shit from the housing co-op, which is giving us a hard time for laughable resons - ( Read more... )

   I really am.
Have not written any decent dictionary entry for a whole week now. I'm just doing bits here and there and it does not seem to work much. Very tired, too, despite not straining myself much. Sleeping feels like falling into deep waters and waking up reminds me of trying to swim up to the surface and almost reaching it - only to plummet ( Read more... )

        - I'm never going to be on time with the dictionary, never.
        - the flat is a pigpen. Dana doesn't bother with cleaning and I am too busy. Will have to make her help me tonight, because the last time I checked, I was NOT a pig and therefore can't live in a pigpen.
        - lesson on Wednesday went fine, we covered post-war Japan and ( Read more... )

  quite good news ( Read more... )

   And not altogether bad day, too.

I had some errands in the morning, some more entertaining than others. I got my new passport and managed to get Dana a beautiful advent calendar. I saw a pretty good one the other week, in Arko, it was shaped like a book and full of the best Belgian pralines (or at least I think so). However, I was there with ( Read more... )

Or so I say. Whatever.
I don't want to boast, but guess I have just lived up to my reputation - or at least to the reputation I have among my country students. After waking up shamefully late (around 9:00 AM, wow!), I spent the whole day in my messy apartment (city girls just don't know how to do their household chores, you know!), only sporadically ( Read more... )

    I'm feeling slightly sick, probably caught a bit of a cold today. I was too lazy to sew a button on my warm black coat, so I took only a light jacket and a big scarf... apparently it was not enough ( Read more... )

...and there's a national holiday on Monday, so we can expect one long, lazy weekend ( Read more... )