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Random Ranting XVI
Oct. 14th, 2004 10:16 pmSo, tomorrow 'till Sunday I'll be in Veldenz again! Hurra for escapism, and hurra for that most lovely castle. It's probably going to be lousily cold (lousily? Can you say that?), as temperatures are somewhere around 10°C here and it's probably colder up on the mountain, but as long as the weather remains as it was for the most part of this week, i.e. sunny, that's alright.
Still, I should remember to pack warm clothes.
Today I met Cele at university, and since it was too late to go to the mensa, we went to the Schatzkammer instead. They had so many nice new stuff! Including wooden bowls, which my brother had searched for without being succesful. So I bought two of them - one for him, one for me - and mead for the weekend, and by then the female shopping genes were coming through so we also bought a leaf-shaped barrette each. And I talked Cele into coming to Kendô practice!
I was a bit late for the West African seminar, then, but it was only the first meeting anyway, so who cares. As I feared, it's going to be chaotic, a lot of work and hard to motivate myself for the latter. Oh well. My own fault. Curses on me for not having written a term paper in that regional seminar in my first semester; you hardly ever get so reliable and simple a topic as apartheid. But I was in my first semester, and young, and naive. Of course, I might try to do the regional part of the intermediate exam about South Africa anyway; but the seminar is two years back, so how the hell am I supposed to remember what we did there. And besides, I really want to take "Neo-Shamanism and New Age" for the exam. I like the professor, and it's the same I have to do the theoretic part with, so hey.
Of course, all that depends on whether I actually have the Schein for the introductory seminar or not. I guess I'll have to find out how to get a substitute Schein, if I have it and they just lost it. If, however, I actually didn't pass and just didn't appear on the list... well, big trouble then.
I did not yet mention the results of the regional elections in my little home town? We actually didn't manage to decide on a mayor in the first attempt - the SPD (social democrats) and the CDU (Christian democrats) candidates had an equal amount of votes to their names - so there was a second ballot last Sunday.
Remscheid did manage to decide, then.
Hardly.
The SPD woman got 50,1% of the votes.
Leaving 49,9% of the votes to the CDU guy.
That's close, obviously.
I also didn't celebrate the determination of the Germans' favorite books, did I?
The top three certainly show that the Germans like escapism and historical stuff and such. Because the number one favorite book of the nation is The Lord of the Rings. Number two is The Bible (and I still wonder who'd actually call that their favorite book. I mean, there are some nice stories in it, but there's also some serious bullshit, and some weak plots and - I mean, seeing it as a book and not as teh pure & simple truth OMG - you know.), and number three is Ken Follet's Pillars of the Earth. (Number four, for the curious, is Le Petit Prince). There you go.
Incidentally, none of those books have been written by Germans, although the Bible at least has first been translated into German when it finally was translated.
Oh well, as long as LOTR is number one, there is hope for this nation.
Am hungry. Will cook now. Also have to pack my bag for the weekend.
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( Zusammenhangloses XVI )
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Still, I should remember to pack warm clothes.
Today I met Cele at university, and since it was too late to go to the mensa, we went to the Schatzkammer instead. They had so many nice new stuff! Including wooden bowls, which my brother had searched for without being succesful. So I bought two of them - one for him, one for me - and mead for the weekend, and by then the female shopping genes were coming through so we also bought a leaf-shaped barrette each. And I talked Cele into coming to Kendô practice!
I was a bit late for the West African seminar, then, but it was only the first meeting anyway, so who cares. As I feared, it's going to be chaotic, a lot of work and hard to motivate myself for the latter. Oh well. My own fault. Curses on me for not having written a term paper in that regional seminar in my first semester; you hardly ever get so reliable and simple a topic as apartheid. But I was in my first semester, and young, and naive. Of course, I might try to do the regional part of the intermediate exam about South Africa anyway; but the seminar is two years back, so how the hell am I supposed to remember what we did there. And besides, I really want to take "Neo-Shamanism and New Age" for the exam. I like the professor, and it's the same I have to do the theoretic part with, so hey.
Of course, all that depends on whether I actually have the Schein for the introductory seminar or not. I guess I'll have to find out how to get a substitute Schein, if I have it and they just lost it. If, however, I actually didn't pass and just didn't appear on the list... well, big trouble then.
I did not yet mention the results of the regional elections in my little home town? We actually didn't manage to decide on a mayor in the first attempt - the SPD (social democrats) and the CDU (Christian democrats) candidates had an equal amount of votes to their names - so there was a second ballot last Sunday.
Remscheid did manage to decide, then.
Hardly.
The SPD woman got 50,1% of the votes.
Leaving 49,9% of the votes to the CDU guy.
That's close, obviously.
I also didn't celebrate the determination of the Germans' favorite books, did I?
The top three certainly show that the Germans like escapism and historical stuff and such. Because the number one favorite book of the nation is The Lord of the Rings. Number two is The Bible (and I still wonder who'd actually call that their favorite book. I mean, there are some nice stories in it, but there's also some serious bullshit, and some weak plots and - I mean, seeing it as a book and not as teh pure & simple truth OMG - you know.), and number three is Ken Follet's Pillars of the Earth. (Number four, for the curious, is Le Petit Prince). There you go.
Incidentally, none of those books have been written by Germans, although the Bible at least has first been translated into German when it finally was translated.
Oh well, as long as LOTR is number one, there is hope for this nation.
Am hungry. Will cook now. Also have to pack my bag for the weekend.
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( Zusammenhangloses XVI )
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