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Small talk makes me sick
11 October 2009 @ 01:59 pm
It seems that nearly all my favorite people here on Livejournal have updated yesterday which is all shades of wonderful. I felt bad for neglecting LJ for so long but I think I can once again use my journal to goad myself into working.
I have finally worked through the superfluous pain of my college failure of the last months. I nearly failed the oral lecture two weeks ago and then maybe you recall that Obama paper I worked on sooooo long and which [info]muhsilisk and [info]usomitai were so kind to look at? Despite alerting my lecturer that I would have to hand it in late, he didn't accept it and so I flunked. He of course told me that I couldn't hand it in late only after I handed it in and not at the time when I e-mailed him about the delay (which was still long before the dealine). Anyway, now I have to write a new paper but I went to another lecturer because I was so angry at myself and at him too because I have experienced it many times that it lies very well in their discretionary power to accept paper (in my case only ten days) late. (Ha, convoluted sentence! Eat this, twitter!)

So, new topic. Conrad, Baudrillard, Raod narratives. Deadline: October, 30th. Personal dealine: October, 23rd. Now that the theatre play I was working on as assisting director has premiered, I'm gonna make it!

In other news, I'm gonna be a tutor this year. I have before worked as a tutor to explain first year students how they should write papers (see, that kinda didn't really fit, did it?) and how the whole university circus worked.
But now I'm a tutor working on real texts and films of the introductory culture course. Of course, the payment is lousy.
I will also teach a real course together with a colleague. "Online-Journalism with Podcasts", the last time we only had four participants because we offered it so late in the year but this time it looks really promising and we changed a lot of the structure. Does anyone of you have teaching advice? It's hard for me to teach/tutor people who are of about the same age as I am.

Below is another one of the photos I took in London. It's been exposed too long and is all shaky but I still really like the structure. Big Ben and the Houses are just as impressive as I've always imagined they would be.

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Originally uploaded by cadeirae

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Small talk makes me sick
30 September 2009 @ 12:03 pm
Oh House season, how I missed you!
603 and personal drivel. )
 
 
Small talk makes me sick
10 June 2009 @ 10:55 pm
I haven´t been updating my personal journal in ages and most of this is due to the possibilities of twitter, college´s delightful stress and the Charity Drive. But it´s just one more day to go and I´ll be rambling about films and books soon enough again.
In case you haven´t been over at the community page yet, check it out, we have a Candy Cane party going on there and generally love fangirlish flailing about our awesome donors who laughed in the face of recession and helped us to collect over $2500 so far.

See you soon!

 
 
Small talk makes me sick
17 May 2009 @ 02:54 pm
I haven´t been to the cinema in weeks. The Boat that Rocked (mediocre but Emma Thompson and Ken Branagh) and Gran Torino(Clint Eastwood hilariously wonderful and tragic) were the last films I saw. I need a good recommendation though I´ve heard great things about Let the Right one In.
This Obama paper is driving me nuts. I need people to look over it because me+scientific English=no good.
And now on top of it all, I have to buy a new desktop Mac. It sure needs to be a G5 for all the video editing stuff to work and now I have to google my way through the different kinds of graphic cards that support at least three monitors and openGL 2.0 Can I please have cheap computer?!
Blergh.
But fandom makes me happy at the moment though it´s distracting as hell.
I´ve turned off LoudTwitter on LJ because it made so apparent that I don´t update my journal daily and it really looks ugly. I´m @cadeira if you want to follow me and need to know what I have for dinner.
Does someone of you need Dreamwidth invitation codes? Some were sent to me today.
 
 
Small talk makes me sick
12 May 2009 @ 05:40 pm
My head is buzzing and whirring like a... whirring buzz. And I still manage to let myself be distracted by Twitter. But it´s a lovely technology. I wish more RL people I know would use it.
I´ve also shugged out 8 pages of my Obama paper in three days which doesn´t sound so much but it really feels like an accomplishment seeing as I have trying to avoid it for three months and I won´t be able to keep the dealine... which would have been today.
One younger female prof is actually controling whether we´ve read our texts via test exams. Like in school. If it wasn´t so annoying I´d laugh. Any other than that, everything´s fine.
Dollhouse keeps to be getting better and better. I´m at episode 9 now and get more and more fascinated by every passing minute.
House finale for me is this evening with pizza and wine.
Charity project looks good, seems like we´re starting today or tomorrow. We will set up an Creations for Donations place so if you would like to participate just look out for the communities. We´ll posting an announcement soon.
 
 
What the fool feels on the hill: busy
 
 
 
Small talk makes me sick
20 February 2009 @ 02:22 pm
It´s been exactly one month since I went from this cripple



to this baby. )

I got awesome post from America. )

And I got tagged. )
 
 
Small talk makes me sick
04 February 2009 @ 12:47 am
Stephen Fry was stuck in an elevator and instead of wishing him free, people probably more wished themselves in there.
I, on the other hand am free of university for over a month after that last presentation on Obama today.

Oh and there´s a new movie coming that looks promising. Can you tell I manged to pass my film class with 1,7? I had to talk about Adaptation. A film with a story about a screen writer who has problems with turning a plotless book into a screen play and instead making it a story about a screen writer having problems adapting a rather plotless book into a screenplay. And no, that last sentence was no copy&paste error. It´s a great film though. By the same guy who wrote Being John Malkovich.

 
 
Small talk makes me sick
06 November 2008 @ 11:17 am
Yesterday, I heard it as the thing first in the morning. It was still dark outside and I reached back to the radio switch with an irrational surge of worry. All that came through was "Feiern im ganzen Land." "...parties across the nation..." and then I let out a breath I didn´t know I was holding.

This doesn´t even affect me I found myself thinking, or does it? Germany is stil governed by a coalition that moves forward like a narcoleptic elephant. So why this awkward euphoria among all the people I met? And then the most extra-ordinary thing happened in the first class that day. We were talking about Adorno´s Enlightenment text, the structure of evil and antisemitism and violence as mislead projection processes of the subject, when my professor made a loop and started to talk about torture, Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo and how torture is trying to eliminate the subject´s sense of their own selves. Suddenly he became all quiet and said that hopefully this would all come to an end now. An eerie silence stretched out in the room and many people smiled to themselves. Until then I have never in my life actually seen Hope. It gave me goosebumps.
I know that this guy can´t change around everything that has gone wrong in the past eight years. I also know that the more hope is held up, the more it can be disappointed. But he embodies all the potential of America that has been kept unused over the course of the last years.
There´s more... and music. )
 
 
What the fool feels on the hill: hopeful
 
 
 
 

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