My French exam was (a) MADNESS (b) actually pretty hilarious (c) SPARTAAAAAA (d) SCHPARTA the Kirk Douglas versionThe paper I handed in on Friday actually (a) had a certain lyrical quality to it, reserved for bad translations of Foucault, the very tired or very drunk (b) was also pretty hilarious (c) was kind of ok ( Read more... )

Hello wonderful people on my flist! How are you? How are you dealing with post-yueltide omgwhatiftheydon'tlikeit sentiments? Where are your whislist2007s? Any particular cookie recipes you'd want to share ( Read more... )

The news: in bullet points

- 883 words on my yuletide story and I know where I'm going. This is a good thing. I also think it's what my recipient wants even though it's not the original idea (will explain later why and how and what, etc ( Read more... )

Having spent a weekend in Vienna with amikara and nice friend witnness I returned home thinking that it couldn't get possibly any better. (There was squeeing and cooking and birthday present exchange* and possibly compromising amounts of alcohol. Also, I didn't think that somebody could be meaner to Nathan's fake emo!beard than I was ( Read more... )

Whee, I'm back. Some life-changing, beautiful and terrible experiences and impressions later I still have no idea what I want to do with my life but a more accurate idea of what I won't and can't do. I also return with a lot more humility and gratitude for the austrian welfare state. That and I think a there've been a lot of wake-up calls for me, ( Read more... )

Big Damn Table. Take that, Apple ( Read more... )

I'll say this: 2006 is so, so done. I think, to put in R.'s words, 2006 has had everything ("Es gibt Uppers, es gibt Downers, Sachen zum grooven, Sachen zum heulen. Es gibt Burner und es gibt Chiller. Man kann alles haben.") He was referring to Texta's lastest album of course, but it does apply to 2006. In other news, I've had my last exam and ( Read more... )

I’m a lurker. I’ve happily been lurking in various fandoms since 1998. Chances are that I know authors and Things From Some Time Ago of the fandoms I followed at one time or another.

I’m a slasher. My first contact with fandom happened because was looking for - I didn’t really know what - people, anythingy, thinking „I can’t be the only one who is ( Read more... )