I just had organic meat and organic cheese with organic bread for dinner while watching a particularly cheesy episode of true blood (my current guilty pleasure) and am now slowly starting to feel human again.

The weekend before last, I spent in Vienna, returning on Monday. I went back to vienna to teach at the national library on Thursday and then ( Read more... )

I just schlepped home 15 kilos of paper! Yes, I know this because I weighed them:

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I forgot to mention this on the actual date but on the 25th of October was my 5th bookcrossing anniversary!I have

• 800 books registered
• 967 released (I used to journal and release all the leftover books I brought to the obcz at the haydn cinema after our meetups) (i really should release 33 books, so that the number is nice and round..)
• 34 member ( Read more... )

i had the most lethargic, uneventful week. i spent most of it watching "How I Met Your Mother" and trying (and mostly failing) to control my relapse into slitherlink territory. HIMYM is a mix of scrubs (without the medicine) and friends. I like it, though I'm not sure if it's because my brain is preparing for hibernation or if it's genuinely funny.

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I went to the Buchwoche, a book fair organised by Austrian booksellers in the Viennese City Hall today. My friend P. wanted to check out the books and the flea market. They usually sell books donated by publishers and booksellers for a good cause. I came across a box of used english paperbacks and what did I find?

A bookcrossing book. Not any ( Read more... )

Remember what I said in Frankfurt in May? I plan to be at the convention in London in April. Unfortunately I can't take time off in April, because my organisation is hosting a conference in May and we have a holiday freeze (it's not called that in English, but you get the pciture, right ( Read more... )

Author Richard K. Breuer contacted me recently. He wanted to meet up and give me a copy of his book for bookcrossing. It's called Rotkäppchen 2069 (Little Red Riding Hood 2069). We met on Thursday for the book exchange and a lengthy chat about being an author, writing, and getting and dealing with literary criticism. And bookcrossing, of course. He ( Read more... )

meme? and bookcrossing?! how could i resist?

What kind of bookcrosser are you
Your Result: Obsessive releaser

You release, release, release. Discretion is not your middlename anymore. Buying grocery's, going to the dentist, a sunny day in the park, on holiday; every step you take, you take a book to go with you to be released.
Thematic dropper

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So!

As I said, I'll change my mind yet another couple of times. This time I made sure I can't go back ;-)

train ticket - check
hotel room - check
email to organisers to sign up to the meeting and all the dinners - check

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Since I have May off of work,
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