Wednesday, April 21, 2004. 03.04 (gmt+1). This is an April update done manually. Huh? Yeah, you see, I was planning to archive every three months and before April (or the first April update for that matter) install Greymatter to this site also. But oh well. I just realized it's been a whole month since my last update here. Abominable. Haha. Yeah. I got myself a LiveJournal and installed a blog at my domain. Like my life's so busy that I need to write about it in three places, lol. I've been sorta saving this one event for this very journal. I went to the HIM concert in Magdeburg on March 30 (yeah, I know it's a while back, lol) with Manu and her friend Mandy. I loved the local support, Torn from Hamburg, and the "middle band" Zeraphine (from somewhere in Germany). HIM also. So that ticket was definitely worth it's money. After the show, the guys from Zeraphine were writing autographs in the back of the theatre and Mandy got a picture with the singer who's a really nice guy. All of them actually. At least in a band/fan situation, from what I can tell, hehe. No, definitely not only. Updated. New poem in the art part. Plus fanlistings I suppose. Not sure 'though. Haha.
Sunday, March 21, 2004. 14.27 (gmt+1). Ah! This is beautiful! Great! Awesome! Outside it's the most wonderful spring weather, inside my CD player is the RHCP album that my cousin had borrowed from me and not given back for almost three months until yesterday (and which I'm listening to right now) and I just learned that I might have the opportunity to create and maintain the official website of the German-Swedish-Society of Saxony-Anhalt (which I'm a member of, by the way). Wheee, I'm happy now. I will also be a helper in the election offices on June 13 when we are going to vote for the new European parliament and the local county and town officials. Updated. Finally some content on the friends and family page, plus I changed my mind about the shoe page and just put some site info there.
Sunday, March 07, 2004. 17.28 (gmt+1). You know, I should be feeling really, really bad. Well, I do, kinda. Why? I lied to my parents. I mean, I'm twenty-one and I have to lie to my parents... So what happened is, I'm going to finally start studying in April and application deadline is March 31st. My parents have been bugging me as to when I was finally going to send in my application papers and I was still totally undecided what I wanted to study. So when I couldn't bear with them any longer I just told them that I had already sent in my application and that I had settled for Slavistics (Russian and Polish, in my case) as a major and Political Science and History as minors. Now, in the end, this is what I actually wrote in my papers and I also have dropped them off by now, but I still feel bad that I didn't do it earlier. Now I'm wondering how this is going to work, moneywise I mean. I'm seriously considering moving to the city so I'd be closer to the university and don't depend on my parents anymore. But then I'd have so much more expenses and I'm not yet sure if they're worth the approximately thirty to fourty-five minutes I'd save getting from my home to university or back. And I'm just thinking, maybe I should've kept the cleaning job at the hospital, but then again, I'd much rather work the night shift somewhere, because I can't sleep at night anyway. That way I'd have a good excuse.
I have news, by the way, but in case you already noticed, maybe I'd better call them olds? Anyway, what's new is that I got myself an own domain: JellowCat.net! So this is what I've been busy with the last two weeks, getting JC.net up and running, opening up a fanlisting and moving my site to where it is right now. And making buttons. I like making buttons. Making buttons is fun. Tehe... Also I'm still not done scanning all the photos I took at the f6 award and I know there are some people waiting for them. So just in case I promised YOU pictures and you're reading this right now, I'll get to it the next couple of days, because I have to cut down my online time again drastically. (It sucks not to have a flatrate...)
Updated. Nothing much apart from the fact that I'm letting you have this oh-so-entertaining insight in my life, and the fact that I just can't keep from joining something all the time. Although, at the moment I'm trying to figure out Greymatter - yes, I want a blog. I'm just not sure if I'm actually gonna put it here or on my domain (where I'm currently hosting, by the way), because I don't know if I can run two blogs with the same cgi files. But what's for sure is that I'm gonna get it to work, because it's either happening my way or it's not happening at all.
Thursday, February 12, 2004. 01.54 (gmt+1). This is just great.
I mean, I didn't want to go on the internet at all today since I spent like eleven hours online yesterday.
Just think about it, I mean, oh my gosh, I just hope my family will never read this particular post.
I need something to do badly.
Anyway, I guess a lot of that time was spent waiting for sites to load or my freaking PC to move.
Same thing today. I bet it must've been like at least two hours alltogether that I spent waiting for something to happen.
My computer totally hung itself up. I mean, I can't wait fifteen minutes for a tiny text only site to load.
That's just not happening! I ended up having to reboot the thing.
Now I'm wondering why I didn't think of that earlier.
I could've saved me so much time...
I noticed I'm a little confused with the days.
I was sure that today was Thursday. Ok, well, NOW it IS Thursday.
I had planned to pick up my photos from the F6 finale today, but on Wednesday afternoons the photo store is closed.
I'm talking about three rolls of film here. I'm gonna have so much scanning to do...
Hopefully that'll keep me from going online for a while.
My parents are going on a short vacation to the North Sea tomorrow.
Of course they didn't tell me until a few days ago when exactly they were going.
I don't know, did they think they'd give me the chance to have a birthday party with my friends while they're not here?
I mean, hello? How much time do they think it takes to plan something like that?
Plus, I can't call my friends like two days in advance and ask them, "Hey, you wanna come to my party this Saturday?"
Like they're gonna cancel all their plans just because I decide to have a party on short notice. No way!
Updated. Fanlistings as usual. I'm joining them all the time.
I don't even put that in my updates anymore. Except for now of course.
Also, I added a new poem that I wrote this morning. You may all go check it out.
Plus, I'd really appreciate an entry in my guestbook once in a while. *wink*
Wednesday, February 11, 2004. 02.19 (gmt+1). Wheee! I just had a birthday today! (Well, it really was yesterday, but, you see, since I'm always up all night...) Anyways, it was cool! My whole family managed NOT to yell at me for no reason for the whole day. My mom took me out for surprise shopping and got me a new bicycle, which is sooo awesome since the one I used to have got trashed in a bike/car crash over three years ago. And since I'm practically going *everywhere* by bike... Now I don't have to use other people's bikes anymore, yay! And my sister gave me movie gift certificates which is really cool as well. I mean, I'm totally into the movies and all, PLUS there's this Van Helsing movie coming out on May 7 and I just can't wait to go see it! I mean, I know I'm paranoid like that and it's a horror movie and that kind always scares the shit out of me, but no, I don't care if it's a horror movie. I don't care if there's blood and gore and guts in it. I don't care if it's gonna give me nightmares for the rest of my freakin' life... I WANNA SEE HUGH JACKMAN LOSE THE SHIRT!!! Literally. He's taking his shirt off. LauraQ said so. Here. See? [now insert picture of drool bucket here] Aaaanyway, me and my family also went out for dinner to a Cuban restaurant in Magdeburg with very yummy food. And we almost stayed for a Salsa and Merengue dance class they have there every Tuesday and Thursday. I guess I'm still gonna try it out at a later date, because I *love* dancing! Oh, and while I'm at it, I'd like to recommend this and this to you. Updated. Nothing much, really. But I'm pondering some - which I think really cool - ideas for the sections that I still haven't put up. After four months of having this site up and running... Lalala... And there's still nothing to see... But oh well... After all, this is still MY site. Right?
Friday, January 30, 2004. 00.59 (gmt+1). Sheesh! I'm doing it again. Not updating, I mean. Until now. I went to the university today to have some questions answered just to go home with a new bunch of even more questions. Anyway, I guess I'll end up taking the Slavistics, Politics and History classes. I'm determined to learn Polish. That's my plan. And then, in autumn, I'll start over with European Studies if I get a placement. I also got my TOEFL score report today. 277 out of 300. I got a 4.0 for my essay, which - for me - is ok, i guess. I've never been too good at writing under time pressure. I mean, I can write utter rubbish in no time, but to write something really good takes me a while. But of course, that doesn't mean I shouldn't be trying harder. I definitely should try harder. Updated. More fanlistings of course. I'm nuts. Also added two new poems to the art part, a translation of one of the German ones and pictures of the gift tags I made for my family's christmas presents. I always make cards and that kind of stuff myself.
Friday, January 09, 2004. 02.22 (gmt+1). Hello hello. It has been a week full of being lazy (again). Well, not really. On Saturday I decided I'd dye my hair just once more (after I wanted to leave it be from now on, but oh well). It looks pretty cool, but the dye kinda ate away my scalp. So that's gonna take a while to heal. Then on Monday my dad and I went to Berlin where I took the TOEFL test and aced it. Surprise! Like I ever expected not to. My unofficial score is 237 to 293 out of 300. In two weeks I'll get my essay back which will decide about my final score. So anyway, after the test my dad and I went to visit my aunt who lives near Berlin and we stayed over night. She used to live in Berlin, but moved a while back and I've never seen her new house before. I was awed to tell you the truth. And a tiny bit jealous. I mean, really, that was one big house! Updated. I joined a couple more fanlistings during the last few days and added like a million buttons that I just made to link back to here. Like anyone would ever want to do that.
Friday, January 02, 2004. 04.43 (gmt+1). Happy New Year to everyone! And happy whatever to anyone who's not celebrating the new year at this time of year. I burned my right wrist and underarm pretty badly today when I was making those thingies... Well, I can't translate it and I'm too lazy to get my dictionary so I'll just tell you what I did: I heated lard on the stovetop so it was like really really hot to bake little dough balls in it. Which is a really yummy recepie. Only that when I was taking one of them dough balls out, the lard spattered, I jumped, let the dough ball fall back into the pot and so had a huge amount of hot oil splashed over my hand and underarm. And of course I had to finish everything with my wrist hurting like hell! One part is even a little blistered. Hurray. Didn't this new year start off just great? Oh the irony. Updated. Fanlistings, fanlistings, fanlistings...