Don't have much to say at the moment, except that I'm finally getting some laundry done. Last time I really did laundry was at my brother's place over Christmas break. #waytoolong #whyamIactinglikethisistwitter

Anyway, it's recently become obvious to me that I have to plan out my life with a ridiculous amount of detail if I want to get anything accomplished. And I just had a random thought. What if I bought the LotR books in German...? I think I'm going to do it, because... well, why wouldn't I?

You know what else? I need more shelves. And it just occurred to me that I could try making them out of the random boxes I have lying around. Yay for putting random junk to use.

Quest for tomorrow: Find out which Osiander store (out of the three/four there are downtown) has a German translation of Lord of the Rings. Yay for quests.

Here's an update on that monster thingy I'm drawing. I don't think it has a name yet, maybe I should do something about that...

( It sort of looks intimidating now )

So I wrote this story a long time ago with this terrible creature of death that essentially spells doom and misery to whoever is unlucky enough to encounter it (you can almost tell how old it is just by the number of bodies it has impaled on its teeth). And since the mental image I have of the image is so disturbing and awesome, I figured I'd try to draw it. The only problem is, I'm not the best artist ever. But hey, I have a lot of free time, and a lot of patience for this kind of thing, so I might as well try it out, right? Well, that's what I'm doing now. And I'm going to save versions of it as I go along to show my progress, because I get the feeling it's going to change quite a bit from beginning to end.


( It's not quite as terrifying as I hoped it would be... )

I never really noticed until the past few months that some of the music that holds some really strong kiddie nostalgia for me is, well, not what one would expect a child of 4-9 years to listen to. I'll add to this list as I find more, but here's a start. Some of it isn't quite as strange as others, but I'm putting it all down.

Early years (when I was between 4-9 years old):
Meatloaf
The KLF
Roxette
Dr. Alban
Genesis
The Dubliners
Roger Whittaker (his Irish collection CD)
Smash Mouth
Queen
Niel Diamond

Later years (9-14 years old):
The Aquabats
Blink-182
Smash Mouth (this one is ambiguous)
Billy Joel
Frank Sinatra

http://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2009/11/draft-of-secret-copyright-treaty-should-give-you-chills.html

So not cool.

I am rather excited today, though. I figured out how to get into classes AND I found where I can do laundry in my building. FRIGGIN' SCORE.

I really do! So I'll post something interesting... probably soon. But maybe not. I have to think about it first.

This is not a good thing when I can't just stay signed in and post from my laptop all the time, but that's life, I suppose.

So... I'm in Germany, studying at the university in Tübingen. I'm going to *try* to update at least once a week, but I think we all know how likely that's going to be...

Anyway, I've had a few adventures so far. Like purposely getting myself lost, wandering around until I found the tourist information building, buying myself a map (of the entire city, not just the Altstadt), and using it to get back home. I should probably point out here that I am very adept at reading maps.

I have no internet in my dorm, and the nearest internet cafe is a 10-minute bus ride away, but that's just fine with me. It gives me a reason to get my lazy butt out of bed and into town, which by the way is awesome-looking. I'll post pictures as soon as I can upload them, which will probably be in a couple of weeks.

Uh... I love German candy. And so far I like living here just as much as living in Bozeman, because here the efficient bus system, tasty candy, and other things make up for the fact that I can't understand half of what's being said to me.


Note to self: start writing down interesting stories so that I don't forget them when I want to post a new entry here.

Hey guys, how's it going? I got my wisdom teeth out last Tuesday, it hurts like crazy but oh well. I'm a boring person, aren't I?

So I'm trying to make my gaiaonline profile all nice and pretty, but apparently I fail at CSS coding because not all the text is red and the things in there don't line up the way I want them to and some things aren't there at all, unless I just forgot to add them in the first place, in which case I need to go over everything again.