Yes, I’m still alive!
Man, this has been one crazy month. I’ve been so busy! I’d like to apologize for totally disappearing on you, though, it wasn’t my intention at all! I’ve been busy with the Bachelor Thesis, which is coming along nicely, I think. We’re about ready to conduct our surveys and collect data, after which we only have to analyze it, write a results report on it, write a discussion and a methods. It’s still a lot of work though! I’ve been really busy with my other two courses as well, which are practical courses so they require a lot more work. I haven’t heard back about my grades for my previous course yet (International Organized Crime), but hopefully I did well enough. It’s sort of excruciating that it’s...
You’ve Never Been by the Riverside
This week’s theme song is Agnes Obel’s Riverside. I’ve been completely obsessed with her cd for the past week, I love it. Get your hands on it if you can! Tomorrow, Tim’s returning from South Korea I’m absolutely ecstatic, I expected him to return Thursday (he had an open ticket). He’s been gone for nearly three weeks but it feels like much longer. When you live together, the house really is too empty if one of you is gone. Hopefully next time he has to go abroad, we have our kitty to keep me company Remember I bought my very own skates last week, for roller derby? Well, I had my first training on them last Wednesday and they suck X_X I’m so disappointed. The wheels are rigid so they don’t roll smoothly and the...
Wicked, Wicked
I just got my first very own skates! I’m very excited. I also ordered knee and elbow protection, a helmet. I bought a mouthguard and wristguards, too. I guess I’m stuck, now! No turning back! Additionally, I have something pretty neat to announce! My Roller Derby name Every derby girl, worldwide, has a unique derby name. Because I already knew I wanted to play for some time, I’d already been thinking about it for a few weeks before my first training session. My name is… Stormdancer I’m extremely excited about it! It’s actually the title of an Asian Steampunk book (first in a trilogy) my Australian buddy Jay Kristoff wrote and is about to be published next year. I asked him permission to use the name and he said a-okay! \o/...
Blog Announcement! Time for Change
As I announced earlier this month, I’m currently working on my bachelor thesis, and eventually it’s my goal to graduate (duh). However, this means that I have very little time and am very stressed. You might have noticed that my blogging pattern has become irregular, which is all to blame on the aforementioned stress and lack of time. I’ve been thinking about what I should do. I don’t want to give up my blog entirely, for sure. But what I need to do is seriously cut back the amount of posts I publish. If I want to stay sane, it’s a must. This means that, although it pains me, for the time being I won’t publish any more Weird Phenomenon, Top 10 posts and Writing Tools posts. I always enjoyed writing these, but they’re all...
The World Goes ‘Round and ‘Round
Today’s theme song is Flutter by Bonobo. One of my favorite songs ever, on one of my favorite albums ever. Enjoy Last week was an interesting one. My boyfriend recently (finally) got a job. Last week was his first week, and last Thursday he got the news that he would be going to South-Korea for ~ three weeks, next Wednesday. Holy shit! I’m so excited for him! How cool is that? Secretly, I’m very jealous, heh. Downpoint is that my house will be very empty the next three weeks :< Pluspoint is I’ll be able to focus on work a lot better ;p Fun thing about this job is that in two years or so, he’ll be sent abroad for a year or two. Know who’s coming with him? Yes, you guessed right: me! I’ve always wanted to live abroad....
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