I really shouldn't

but I'll make it a quick meme even if it's just about the most stupid one I've ever read (seriously, who phrased these "questions"?:


Where is your cell phone? on the couch table.

Vehicle? underground, tram and in the warmer months my bike.

Hair? Mine is it's own entity. It also has an opinion and acts accordingly, making me look like a dork.

Father? I resolved my problems with him. He went and got himself new ones with himself.

Your favorite thing? my new headphones, a window pane, and does my kitchen count?

Dream last night? weird, that's all I can remember. didn't sleep too well.

Favorite drink? drink as in alcoholic drink? g&t

Room you are in? living room

Your ex? uhm... I have no clue where and how one of them is, one is probably fine but I haven't seen them in ages, one I don't want to know about because - duh, what was a thinking?, and one got married last summer (and people who know my exes can now have fun finding out which is which :)

You are? alternately exhausted, energized, horribly tired and completely out of it

What do you want to be in ten years? done with my thesis. and of course that other sappy stuff that finn said about being happy and in love. but right now all I need to be done with in ten year's time is this thesis. other than that: on holiday.

Who did you hang out with today? geeeeez, meself? and the bunnies. and my thesis. and in my currently un-social life you could probably count the other people at the supermarket too.

What you're not? uncomplicated, intrinsically jealous, straight or gay; well-rested. thin.

Muffins? all chocolate, all the time with both chips and dough.

One of your wish list items? buffy boxed set, a new digital camera, editing equipment

Where is the ____? WTF?

The last thing you did? thesis - shopping - thesis - blog

What are you wearing? don't ask, I'm the slob on the couch.

Your pet(s)? Fat Sam and Lorelei Gilmore

Your computer? 1 laptop, 1 desktop, 1 desktop at work

Your life? is probably out partying hard, just ... somewhere I'm not at the moment.

Your mood? meh.

Missing? my life.

What are you thinking about right now? this stupid meme.

Your shoes? none (see Slob of the Couch).

Your work? currently going on without me. I'm a freelance journalist.

Your summer? THE summer? that was 2003. oh yes, it was :)

Your favorite colour? teal.

weird names pt. 2

some poor chap was given the name "Basil Henry...". What were his parents thinking? Why didn't they at least call him "Henry Basil ...."?

That reminds me of that joke from Ellen: "Mom, I'm not a plant."
Nope, he's a herb...

weird names pt. 1

I've come across some (to the sleep-deprived mind) very funny names during my thesis reading so far. I've decided to (maybe) compile them here, so you too may be enlightened and invigorated by them. Peruse at utmost possible tiredest and/or inebriated moment and then at own risk*:

Zerfass
Schlozmann
Marcelline (first name)
Smucker



* at no point are these mentions meant to be derogatory or insensitive to certain cultures or countries. I'd probably find my own name extremely funny at the moment if I didn't know it so well already. Possibly some are more or less funny depending on what language you speak I guess.

I'm not dead just floating

life thesis update:
I have actually written a couple of pages these last few days and I still sometimes believe that I can make it. But by now I am exhausted and have had too many red bull energy drinks. I don't know how finn can handle these, they give me a heartburn. finn is working on her paper too, so we're both still sitting on the sofa at one a.m. both knackered and with a comfort level seriously damaged. We basically just want to go to bed, cuddle up to each other and have a good night's sleep.

I have started to listen to music on my computer while working and wanted to give you one of my favourite quotes - which I've been wanting to do for months, but I happen to always hear that song when I'm on the go and once I'm home again my goldfish memory has set in. so here comes one of my favourite lines in music by Ani DiFranco taken from her song Serpentine:

cause all the wrong people have the power of suggestion
and the freedom of the press is meaningless if nobody asks the question

I've been trying to figure out a way I can use this in my thesis but I just haven't found a plausible one yet :)

blogging from the library part II

I had an epiphany: I'm wearing the most perfectest of all t-shirts today considering I'm working on my thesis in a library




I love this shirt. I really do. captures all my qualities as a person and a student.

back @ the library

I really should start working again now. alas, all blog feeds have been read thoroughly.

fuck procrastination

I was doing really well yesterday, even started writing for the mini-thesis due in a week. But today I didn't do shit but go nuts about a stupid circuit challenge in Need for Speed and almost play all of Harry Potter, Prisoner of Azkaban through. Someone take this computer away from me.

another meme

another meme. My head's to heavy to do anything more useful

A - Attached or single: Pretty attached.

B - Best Friend: I have a girlfriend. Guess who's my cliché best friend?

C - Cake or Pie: As long as I can eat it too I'm fine with either. Traditionally in Austria it would be easier to get your hands on cake though.

D - Day of choice: Saturday. Because it's the weekend and doesn't have the fleeting feeling of a Sunday, like weekend-time is running through your hands.

E - Essential Item: My lactase tablets. I just might happen to eat something with milk in it.

F - Favorite Color: red-orange-ish. or teal. I really don't know.

G - Gummi Bears or Worms: ew. I hate gummi candy.

H - Hometown: Vienna-

I - Indulgence(s): Food & Cooking. TV & Movies. Time.

J - January or July: January. I hate baking in the sun.

K - Kids: maybe.

L - Life is Incomplete Without: Creativity.

M - Marriage Date: huh?

N - Number of Siblings: Zero. Unfortunately.

O - Oranges or Apples: Apples. Less messy to eat. But I wouldn't say no to orange juice either.

P - Phobias or Fears: Fear of loss, but it's under control now. Otherwise just a bit neurotic.

Q - Quote(s): "We're you archnemesis-es-eees."

R - Reason To Smile: Lots and lots.

S - Season: Autumn all the way. I wish it would last longer.

T - Tag Three +: Tagging means linking. And I can't be bothered with that now. (see big, heavy head)

U - Unknown Fact About Me: I almost became a pro musician.

V - Vegetarian or Carnivore: I eat meat but I don't eat a lot of it. I like my veggies.

W - Worst Habit: Over analyzing TV/movies while watching. Out loud.

X - X-Rays or Ultrasounds: Neither is what I'd choose to do in my free time, but Ultrasounds are usually less uncomfortable. I seem to always have x-rays where I have to get into some weird position so they can shoot say some hardly accessible area of my shoulder.

Y - Your Favorite Food: Is food a valid answer to this?

Z - Zodiac: Capricorn. But given that I was born on the 23rd of December I have been told I'm very much a Sagittarius too. Whatever.

wanted: my suit. the super one.

I was in full super-function mode yesterday and the day before. I did tons of little stuff that had to be done and conducted four interviews. It shall be duly noted however that I have still not done anything for my goddamned thesis. I also played some Need For Speed Underground as well as a lot of Sewer Run and Sewer Run 2. I also went to buy groceries today, a task that remains forever mine since finn hates shopping for food and gets so miserable about it that I can't bear to make her do it. Unfortunately however I'm now out of super-function mode, I've shed it somewhere along the way, and in no mood whatsoever to get something done. But today being deadline day I have no other choice. Damned be the 14th of each month!

If anyone sees my super-function suit please bring it back to me. I miss it dearly.


Me go write article now. Reluctantly.



Hm,.. maybe I'll go find something to eat first...

I didn't want to do it

but I did.
I think it's way funnier when you can actually play them. So I registered. What the heck. Sometimes one just can't avoid the current register-mania.

gaming desaster

I'm totally addicted to this reaction/musical game. And I totally suck at it :)

it reminds me of dance dance revolution, which I first encountered on numerous piers in england many years ago. I'm really fond of those memories...

I still haven't done anything for the thesis.

procrastination is indeed a frickin art form

I still have a sore throat and I can not will myself to read this book about same-sex relationships in Skandinavian and German law. I have to bring it back to the library tomorrow, so I really should be reading those ridiculous 40 pages that I need out of it. And I have loads of other stuff I wanted to do today. Seriously, I am not in the mood. Maybe I can get all of this done tomorrow?

aaaaaaaaaaarggggghhhhhhhh.

maybe I'll watch moonlight first and get to the "doing things" part later on...

get into gear already

having time off on a weekday is really weird.
however I do have stuff to do. I'm having a meeting at the tv-station this afternoon - maybe someone can tell me what's going on with my internship. I have to get my public transport fare card (there's always a loooong queue) and I have to return some books. I hate afternoon appointments, cut my day in half and I can get nothing done.

I love me porn name

my gangsta name: Janky Canadian
my mafia name: Fionda Screwball


but nothing amuses me like my porn name: Slappy Spankalicious

thanks for the link, LG, I was currently out of stupid things to do online anyway :)


yours truly,
Cap'n Quincy Poopdeck (indeed, that seems to be my pirate name)

... like cuddling with Bobby Drake

I have the window open and am seriously freezing my ass of (hence the Iceman-reference, for those non-comic-geeks out there), so I decided to get into something warmer than shorts and a sleeveless and now I'm all cosy with all the yummy, unhealthy stuff I bought at the store today that gf doesn't know about yet. tehehee... well, she'd have to come home first to enjoy the surprises. speaking of which: honey, get home already, I miss ya!

i'm useless in the morning

as i have gotten almost nothing done for my reportage i decided to put in a graveyard shift last night after we came home from finn's sister's school-dinner (lovely food btw).
and it was good that i did so, cuz i have done nothing so far today. maybe i should cut down on my blog reading because it seems to take up huge chunks of my time. i don't even read the paper anymore! and i'm a journalist so maybe i should do that. really.

the problem is, i am useless during the day. finn's the one who can get up at 7 a.m., get a lot of work done and then have a nice day. i on the other hand work nights. i mean, i CAN get up in the morning, i can even talk and read and stuff. i just won't get anything done until about 11 p.m. and that kinda sucks as a lifestyle. so right now i shall open the stupid word file and transcribe the rest of the interview i started transcribing last night. never mind that at night i can finish transcribing one hour of interview in 1,5 hours and now it will take me two hours to subscribe the remaining 50 minutes... I'll be fine... :(

happiness in a jar

aaah... it's just one of those days. one of those perfect little melancholy-happy days. when I'm doing nothing really and everything that's work and a must is even much more of a drag the usually. the things that make me so happy and completely overshadow the hard facts*?

1. when i got up finn handed me a package from amazon. aren't those the happiest days for you too? amazon-delivery days?

2. the package contained not only this:


but also this:

and you see, these are things that make me very happy. I can't WAIT to have enough money to organise some proper feasts. for today it's asparagus that finn bought in lower austria yesterday.

3. the weather outside is amazing! it was raining in the morning and unfortunately it has stopped by now, however the world still has this cool, dampened sound about it. it practically emanates melancholy.

4. I'm having this wonderful scent of lush products on my skin since i climbed out of the shower.

5. I've been listening to girlyman and paper moon all day now. spring music, kinda.


* the hard facts: i had to do the dishes in the bathroom sink again, i'm not working on my reportage, i didn't go to the gym and am hence growing a tummy and a guilty conscience. PLUS (and this is one that i can't get around) i have to make some phonecalls. but after that i'm gonna go back to ignoring the world and being creative and yadda yadda yadda :)

do tell, what makes YOU happy?

how does he do it?

Here's the thing about anthony stewart head: he's almost what most people would consider old, he's definitely not what one would put down as outstandingly handsome, yet he's so excrutiatingly sexy that it gives me the creeps. I mean, just look at this guy. oh and apart from that his voice is ... - as anya would put it - pleasant. very pleasant indeed. I recommend the buffy musical episode for living proof of that.
and yes, this is indeed another sad attempt at procrastinating.