Dearest Reader,

Should I have bought more toilet-paper? Possible uses:

• Make paper-mache statues to honor those working in healthcare;
• Mummify corpses;
• Use as kindle for people who prefer to be cremated.

What's on in the background: ER, episode 2.19, 'Fire in the Belly'

Fortunate reader,

When I wrote you last, there was neither Snapchat, reddit nor Instagram. Now that I write you at this moment, there is corona.


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Done with diet. 76 kg. Am awesome.
Must take care to preserve this weight.
And win the heart of the cute, quite possibly straight, bespeckled and philosophically/theologically waxful boy whose eye I caught on the train and who shares most of my classes.
The second resolve is more or less optional.
Perhaps wishfully thought as well.

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Am reading ( Read more... )

(Well, dramatically put. Mostly, I violated the rules of my diet.) I was at the end of my Break Week ("because we musn't allow your body to grow used to only 500 cal. a day"), which meant I could eat a 500 cal. dinner (give or take) without carbs for seven days. Paradoxically, it left me more hungry in the evenings. I've been amazing at curbing my ( Read more... )

The new term has started. For me, this means six courses and two (bachelor) theses. Why two, you might ask? Well, I had originally intended to write those in the first term of the next year, but then the government maliciously intervened with a new law, which basically fines any and all students extending their majors with over a year. (To the tune ( Read more... )

Every single term, I fall into the same trap. I'm always super excited for the first week of classes, and then I realize that the first class for every single course invariably boils down to: "Yeah, well, this is the Blackboard, this is the course information which you cannot possibly read on your own, these are the assessment criteria and this is ( Read more... )

I have very inflammatory skin. It reacts badly to:

• lack of sleep;
• lack of sun;
• lack of happy;
• lack of fresh air;
• all food except for vegetables.

I went protesting on Friday ( Read more... )

I’m on a diet.
( Whining about said diet. )

I haven't updated in... a long whole. Even longer if you actually expect substance to my posts. Oh, now, you don't need to get all maudlin about it. Imagine me re-entering the room while this is playing:

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That is all.