Enjoy your warm ale, your new nationalist government, your tanked economy and your new status as an insignificant microstate (as soon as Scotland and Northern Ireland leave). 52% of you deserve it.

(I'm still in denial about what Brexit will mean for the EU as a whole and, in consequence, the world. And yes, usually, I try to see others' ( Read more... )

Amazon Prime now has all five seasons of Stargate Atlantis (German and OV, for the German crowd) I am fuuuuucked because now I can just put it on TV and won't even have to get up to get the DVDs and will probably watch Duet, The Game and The Last Man in infinite loop, bye bye brain and also sleep, it was nice knowing you ( Read more... )

Okay, not exactly because I managed to write twenty pages for the thesis since last Monday, and some of it even makes sense and probably doesn't need to be edited too heavily (yes, I adopted the NaNoWriMo approach for writing this sucker: write, write, write, you can edit it when you're done), unfortunately, I hit a major snag in the road: I. Have ( Read more... )

Okay, guys, shit's about to get serious. I had two very important meetings with my advisor and my second referee (who's also chairman of the board of examiners, aka Vorsitzender des Prüfungsausschusses) last week and I have another two tomorrow and it looks like I'll finally register my thesis at the registrar's office (aka Prüfungsamt) tomorrow.

( Honestly, let's just tell it like it is: academic admin stuff SUCKS. )

Haven't written my weekly blog entry last week although I'd been planning to (something about my sister moving to York in August kind of reluctantly and me reading The Taliban Shuffle and getting the seven year itch about moving on, it's kind of a mess, actually) but I haven't sorted out my thoughts on that properly yet, so none of that for the ( Read more... )

Sorry for being absent again but my laziness caught up with me again. Basically, after procrastinating this one last paper before my thesis for ages - and thus being the sole person responsible for having to do this cramming thing myself - and then when I'd just started getting into it getting a cold and strep throat and conjunctivitis (which BTW ( Read more... )

It is here. It is here:

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Twenty years, everyone. We had to wait twenty years for this. The cinema where I watched the first one doesn't even exist anymore. I honestly thought it was a joke when they announced the sequel a couple months ago but OMFG, it is here. It existsAnd it's going to be a pain in the ass finding a cinema that doesn't only ( Read more... )

And it is huge. I'm not going to say that someone grossly miscalculated the space in our living room, but seriously, someone grossly miscalculated the space in our living room. Don't believe me? Have a look:

( Huge picture of huge couch is huge. )

Seriously, guys. I leave for four days to visit my sister in Kiel and this is what I come home to:

( Picture under cut because I care about your bandwidth, guys. )

Originally, I'd wanted to post something about the new TFA trailer last night but then I realized I didn't have a Star Wars icon and ended up spending 2 1/2 hours on looking for fitting pictures and fiddling with image resizing and textures and stuff and then it was 0300 and I decided that it was about time to go to bed after all.

( Just me and a couple thoughts on the trailer. Yes, THAT trailer. )