I've been talking a lot more to the girl I mentioned the other day, she sat beside on the Islamic history lecture yesterday. Christer Hedin surpassed himself in drawing impossibly large, complex and muddled diagrams, maps and family trees trying to draw the split between sunni and shia, with kalifs and the twelve Imams and the rest of it, and then ( Read more... )

Classes have finally started, I'm not quite as rusty as I thought I'd be, and the tabla solo choreography we'll be doing seems like a lot of fun. I like the music, for one, and there will be a lot of shimmying. We've only gone though the first few seconds so far, and there's already a bottom shimmy on one leg, shimmy on small, fast hip circles and ( Read more... )

I'm feeling very off the whole internet communication thing right now - partly because school takes a lot of time and energy, and partly becase A. got me Settlers IV, muahah. So whatever time is left after school, friends, going out, chopping wood and all the rest of it pretty much goes to geeky strategy gaming. I'm the lowest kind of geek, I know ( Read more... )

- just been very busy and very, very tired. I still haven't caught up with my early mornings, and there has been so much going on this week ( Read more... )

... at least falling asleep shouldn't be too much of a problem tonight. That's a relief.

Very nervous about my first class tomorrow. The fact that my public transport card expired yesterday, and I can't afford to buy a new one until Wednesday, adds up, and so does my lack of money to buy those two compendiums we need for the first course. I have already got the grammar third book we need for it, but still ( Read more... )

Too sweet, aren't they?


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Today is my last real free day before the Arabic classes start on Monday -Saturday and Sunday do not count. What better way to spend it than to modify a garter belt ( Read more... )

We've been together for two years and nine months today, but that's more or less coincidence - that is, I feel like posting this picture from last weekend, and it just happened to be on the 20th of August.


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- About the Arabic course I'm taking this autumn. I was at the roll call (?) today, got the schedule, book lists and all the rest of it, and rather a frightening description of how much work this course is going to take - but I think it's good that they do that to new students. Keeps us on our toes, and if we're shocked by how much work it takes ( Read more... )