I'm off to Dakar tomorrow. And you know you get disillusioned about business trips when all you think about is how to avoid malaria mosquitoes and belly bug...

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...the day after tomorrow we will be off to Corsica. As my To Do -lists get more and more muddled (during the last days I found I scribbled down e.g."feed the flowers" - and I swear they are not of the man-eating type or "get a map of Mexico" - I really don't know where that came from), it is getting clearer and clearer that I desperately, ( Read more... )

As a busy time lies now fortunately behind me, I have time to spend on nonsense (at least this way I don't think at my dentist appointment tomorrow).

Alors, a meme I got from LJ user subvers:
The grown-up person quiz 
(Warning: In my technical stupidity I have put in the cut thrice - and I can't remove them - puts head in hands)

1. What bill do you ( Read more... )

I would be (according to a test I saw on subvers' s LJ ( Read more... )

Why have I ever agreed to be National Focal Point for the Bloody National Implementation Plan for the Stockholm Convention? And why have I done nothing on the Bloody NIP during the last year and why, oh, why will I have to present tomorrow something on the Austrian NIP? Now I have to face a night of work to fake at least a little something to show ( Read more... )

HuH, Mr. B. has discovered rated SS/HG fanfiction an my laptop. Wonders now aloud how anyone can come up with such blatant nonsense about Snape and Hermione and how anyone -let alone his betrothed - can bear to read said nonsense. "It doesn't even read like Harry Potter, it hasn't got anything to do with HP, it's only about snogging, about SNOGGING ( Read more... )

As my sister in law will presumably marry someone we haven't met so far, I have come up with a To Do- List which proves by the way that literature can help you in real life ( Read more... )

I would like to propose the "Wishful Thinking-Meme" ak the "Rosamund Pilcher-Meme". Let's see if I can explain what I mean:

Write a drabble or a ficlet on your RL as if it was a (Regency)romance novel. Why should only Hermione and Severus have all the fun? So let's hope that with all that positive energy life will keep to your script.

Preparations for the presidency are bumping along nicely. If there weren't the feeling that just around the corner some tasks lurk that I would like to forget. Does anybody know a method to motivate themselves to tackle these (NLP,hypnosis, magic)?