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Hmm

( Jul. 4th, 2006 03:20 pm)
It seems as if it was one of the "not around at all" phases after all. I apologize for my absence during the last week, I had to...digest---my exams before I was able to speak to anyone. But today I was productive and did lots of real life stuff, some of it even in the garden with my trusted old laptop, so I feel confident that I am able to post. And maybe even answer comments. Because it's not that I didn't try posting, oh no. You missed the great HP rant, and the "LJ has lost its purpose for me" whining, and the fabulous Mosquito Mystery Matter. All posts that were typed and then deleted, because they didn't seem worth posting at the end.

But now I'm back, productive, rejuvenated (I was trying to find a reason to use that mood for years) and I have, uhm, nothing much to say. Go figure.


What did I do during the last week?
Well, I lay in the sun a lot. I walked the dog. I spend the entire Saturday in silence, because I had lost my voice during a party on Thursday (Friday killed it dead.) I read a lot of SG1 fic and am writing up recs, which I can't post before I have posted the vid recs I have been working on for ages. Those I can't post because they are not done yet and apparently I can't get myself to finish them. But! Productiveness! I shall finish the vid recs tomorrow. Or the day after tomorrow.


What else is there?
Well, there are the LJ statistics. You might remember that LJ-dom was in a bit of a flurry a few weeks ago, because our LJ-masters had told us that we were all teenagers who should want a more teenage-friendly lj. When LJ-dom protested, they asked us to fill in our user info so the age statistics would be more accurate. I, having nothing better to do in my exam preparation, wrote down the numbers for you, and now I can announce that the ljers who were 18 and 19 have only slightly increased, with the 19 year old now being the biggest group of ljers. Years 20 to 26 however seem to have grown an average of tenthousand. Still considerably less than the 18 and 19ers, but they are there. 27+ didn't grow as much, and I only wrote down the numbers until 30.

This can lead us to the following conclusions:
- many many people had their 19th birthday during the last few weeks, that's why there are more 19ers now.
- people between 18 and 19 don't care about lj politics, so they didn't fill out there user info when lj asked
- people between 18 and 19 are not the largest group represented on lj, but they are the largest group with filled out user info. That's why those groups didn't grow as much as the other ones.
- Unless you find 400000 people who are willing to claim that they are 40+ in their user info, lj won't care anyway.


That's it from me, more exciting news here on this LJ, if and when my productiveness lasts and something happens that I can write about. Which will surely not be last Sunday's boring Dead Zone episode.
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( Jun. 1st, 2006 10:51 am)
Look at me! First post in five days!

I think I'm doing quite well on that whole "staying away from internet, studying" thing. So this post is just..., pretend that it doesn't exist.

*runs off, an invisible puff of smoke on her trail*
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So.

( Apr. 16th, 2006 05:52 am)
It's been a while since I mentioned the most important exams of my life, but there is news.

I did not fail the written part of the exams.

This can still mean that I
a) fail the oral part and have to repeat everything (though unlikely)
b) got really bad results, but not enough to fail, which would almost be worse than failing, because than at least I'd have another try at a good grade.

I'm shaking not just a little as I write this. It came a bit unexpected, because I thought results would only be out on Tuesday, and - being woken by a train- just wanted to quickly check my emails. Note to self:
Start studying for oral exams.
And don't check emails at five in the morning ever again.

I'm going to have a look at the fail list again, just to be sure. What if they forgot to put my name on there?
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( Jan. 21st, 2006 08:00 pm)
Hmm. Squee? )

Btw: exams from hell are over. I'm free!!! But mostly I'm exhausted and empty, and I don't know what to talk about. I still have comments to answer from last week's SG, intersting comments that I want to asnwer, but I type up answers and then I delete everything, because it doesn't feel important anymore. Gimme a few more days to sleep, eat and watch Highlander episodes and I'll be as good as I new, I promise.
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( Jan. 13th, 2006 08:16 pm)
Today's exam was just what you'd expect from a Friday 13th exam, but at least that's it for public law. Two more to go and I'm free! Since I can't read anymore (eyes hurt), write anymore (hand hurts) or concentrate anymore (brain hurts), I'm watching Simon& Simon.

I LOVE Simon & Simon. I must have watched this show for years when I was a kid, and the love for AJ and Rick is so deep inside me that I can't even imagine not loving them. I am not able to make any unbiased comments on this show, I just love it and I couldn't even tell you why. I was very disappointed that again no one wrote Simon&Simon for Yuletide. I want to read long, angst Simon&Simon fic in which AJ fights with Rick and then gets hurt, and their mother blames Rick, and Rick gets laid a lot.

Simon&Simon is also very relaxing, and I plan to listen to title melody non-stop for at least an hour before I sleep tonight, maybe with some Riptide inbetween. Though Riptide always makes me want to dance. No, I don't understand it either, it's not very danceable. Anyway, today's highlight was an episode with flashbakcs to Rick and AJ as teenagers. 1968? 69? Something like that. AJ, at a filling station, asking the attendant to fill the car with regular gas for (wait for it), one dollar. One dollar. How funny is that?

I don't know about prices today (just that gas is still very very cheap in the US), but over here, with today's exchange course and two week old gas prices, you'd get 0.66 liter of gas (or 0,175 gallons) for one US Dollar, which with my car would get me as far as, hmm, 7 or 8 kilometers (4-5 miles). If I'm lucky.

I'm so very amused by him buying gas for a dollar.
*is amused*



I really need an 80s TV show love icon. I don't have a Simon&Simone icon, no A-Team, no Remington Steele... Shame on me.
*goes icon hunting*
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( Jan. 4th, 2006 08:18 am)
Please ignore. This is a test.

I just wanted to make sure that today is indeed Wednesday, 4th January, and not Thursday, 5th, in which case I would have missed my first exams.

Test, test.
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( Jan. 2nd, 2006 07:18 pm)
I have now reached page 500 of The Book of Doom and now I realize that there is a system behind the sentences. There are OMG! chapters! And subchapters! It all makes sense now!

The Book of Doom is the standard work for the kind of exam I'm taking (Thursday. OMG please tell me it's not Thursday already and I have MISSED my exams! I have nightmares about missing my exams by sheer stupidity). If you know german, please read the customer reviews, cuase you know how amazon customer reviews are never wrong. People say things like "Since I've stopped reading this book, my grades have improved muchly." and "illogical, complex, incomplete" and until today I would have agreed, but now it all makes sense! Chapters! I have found chapters!

Also, after 500 pages I have finally grown to love the unequaled writing style of the authors, who constantly refer to themselves as "we". I swear I have never read a study book before where teh authro refers to himself at all, but they do, in every chapter (!!!). I have not yet found out if this is kind of like the Royal We that Majesties use to refer to themselves or if it's just some sneaky way of excluding liability for the content. In case everything they write is wrong they can claim that it was just their personal opinion, not some truth. Laywers. Pfff.

Anyway, it reminsd me of reading lj because it is so rare these days that I get to read from a first person POV anywhere else, and the books reads a bit like LJ too. Half the time, you don't know what people are talking about and aren't entirely sure if you really want to enter yet another new fandom (but you will, eventually) and paragraphs are thrown together like the posts on your flist, without any logical connection. But no more! For I have discovered the system behind the nook, and now I know that one day I will open my flist and it will ALL make sense. It's all part of a greater SOMETHING that just waits to be discovered, oh yes!

And shall discover it!
Right after I've read the final 100 pages in The Book of Doom. And left an amazon review. Heehee. It's the small things that brighten my day.

P.S.: Jayne is totally the kind of guy who'd leave on his socks in bed.
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