I am trying to study for my linguistics exam. I say trying because I keep wanting to hit my head against a wall at some of the sentences I am supposed to sparse and my general annoyance at an English department at a major university which can't round up more than two native-speaking lecturers ( Read more... )

1 whole frozen salmon, approx. 1.3kg, €4.66, for 2 people ( Read more... )

In what realm is it acceptable to follow a stranger out of an internet cafe and say, as if it were a normal, polite, everyday question: Sag mal: hast du Lust mal richtig durchgefickt zu werden?It's shit like that that makes me support castration. And laws that make it legal to carry guns ( Read more... )

I just posted and the entry keeps showing up cut, and when I try to go back and edit it - put in a real cut if it's not going to all show up at least - LJ says it can't find the entry.
EDIT: and now it's fine. slow updating, maybe.

But I what I really wanted to add is that I am reading Narziss und Goldmund and remembering why I kept reading this ( Read more... )

In the interest of verifying my continued existence ( Read more... )

I have a bike, finally! It's not a great bike, and it definitely needs a little TLC, but I bid on it on a whim on Ebay day-before-yesterday and I think i got a decent deal - hopefully, since I paid for it and picked it up this morning: a screaming purple men's 26er mountainbike. But if it will reliably get me from Point A to Point B, I'm happy, and ( Read more... )

Wow. It has been a long time. I'm trying to think of what all has been happening in the past two months that could excuse my complete lack of attention to the internet, but mostly life has simply been continuing in its normal roller-coaster fashion ( Read more... )

I am the world's worst correspondent. I have simply "fallen out of touch" with more friends - GOOD friends - in my life than I can count.
I hate that a few weeks without writing becomes a few months, which can all too easily become a few years... and then what do you say? "Hi. Sorry for the delay. Back now."? And that's if email addresses haven't ( Read more... )

I just got very excited for a moment, because the TUI website turned up a fare of 215€ for going to New York for grendelyn's wedding, but then pages later I'm informed that was without the ~200€ of taxes and fees. Evil, I tell you, evil ( Read more... )

One more thing on the to-do list: find batteries that actually work for my camera. I have twice purchased AAs for it, and they don't work. Evidently "AA" does not necessarily = "compatible with my camera". Who knew?