Why does a trip of pleasure always start with stress? It was a pain finding and booking hostels plus checking transportation. Er, I really should not complain because it has been a while since I have enough free time and money to get away from the doll house city I'm living in (not that I hate Groningen, but it's kind of strange staying in an ( Read more... )

Just marathon through a bunch of ep. 1 (my eyes still seeing stars from that). Looks like there will be no lack of good entertainment. Kami-sama no Memo-chou looks ambitious and the visuals are pretty, but I don't like the mood whiplash at the end. Feels really insensitive there. No. 6 seems to be good as well. It is not officially BL but the ( Read more... )

So now I'm doing something different for my traineeship: setting up an experimental project. It's not something very common in sociology, rather an economics and psychology thing (sociologists are in love with large-scale data, which is difficult in experimental setting. And ethics issue). There is also the nagging feeling that the "subjects" pool ( Read more... )

My host city of Groningen gives one summer day to celebrate tolerance, especially tolerance towards non-het sexual orientations. This is the so-called Roze Zaterdag (Pink Saturday) and the city gets a PINK makeover. I giggle so hard because it reminds me of the Sekaiichi pink transformation, though there is no stuffed bear or doll (on the flip side ( Read more... )