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Short Weekend
Oct. 25th, 2004 01:15 pmThis weekend sure went by in a hurry, and then it was Monday and the first Kanji-tesuto was due.
On Saturday, Jörg's brother Marc and Marc's wife Claudia came to visit us so Jörg could set up Marc's new computer and they could play some Battlefield Vietnam and such. I could escape their society for most of the time, having to spend most of Saturday afternoon at my parents' because my aunt Karin and three of her sons as well as my grandmother, my Uncle Gottfried and my Aunt Hannelore came to visit. Having such a gigantic family has its drawbacks. But it was nice, all in all, although my mother apparently had invited my mostly as a baby-sitter - she expected me to entertain the boys. Well, I was just trying to organize our visit to the Spiel (a games and book expo) in Essen, which I had to interrupt, so I was slightly annoyed at that. I also had to print out some stuff for Cele, and as I was going through my image collection for that, Alessio suddenly asked who "that guy with the light" was. I therefore told him and his two brothers (well, Ricardo, anyway; I doubt Lorenzo understood much) the most edifying and salutary story of That Guy With The Light and The Woman He Got It For, otherwise known as the Lay of Leithian. And since they still hadn't seen The Return of the King, I let them watch the DVD. Because I r teh bestest baby-sitter evar. Breeding the next generation of Tolkien geeks, I am. And yes, I know that the movie is rated 12 (or PG-13, if you will); but so were part 1 and 2, and they have seen those already (without my doing) as well. So there.
But I really enjoyed Ricardo's answer when he was asked what he wanted to become when he was grown-up. He only just started school in August, and already they ask him what profession he'll chose once he's grown up. I hated that sort of thing when I was little, and, as a matter of fact, I still hate it. But Ricardo was pretty cool. He thought for a while and then answered, beaming, "Aragorn. Or the guy with the Silmathing."
To speak with Senator Palpatine, I will be watching his career with great interest.
I spent the rest of the evening playing KotOR again, and now I finally managed to shoot down those Sith fighters. By now, I even got through the first stages of Jedi apprenticeship. Yay!
On Sunday, I met with Cele and Aditu to visit the Spiel. All in all, it was smaller than last year, but still enjoyable - the LARP and fantasy part was rather bigger than last year, so no problem for me. We walked around a lot; Aditu bought some new DSA adventures and had their creators sign them; I bought the add-on to the hilarious RPG parody card game Munchkin (it has a "The One Ring" card! And the Tengwar on the One Ring read 'Made in Taiwan'! *cackles madly*), a dice with Kanji numbers and a dice with Tengwar. I also got two Nerd-zines, with highly amusing and oh-so-true evil cartoons. Cele bought a beautiful chest (originally she had wanted to buy a bow for her Aredhel costume, but lacking the money for a good one, she dropped that idea) and lots of dice. We had a short chat with Alexandra Velten and Dr Rainer Nagel, who will be at Ring*Con next weekend as well, albeit on the lecturer side, not on the audience side, about university life and last-minute term-papers. Meanwhile, someone drew a hilarious "How To Wake Great Sleepy Cthulhu" picture for Alexandra. Teeheh. There weren't as many artists as last year, though, which was a pity. *sigh* Oh well, saves paper and money. But still.
Luckily, I didn't have to buy those absolutely beautiful celtic books they sold there, because inside, they had normal lined paper, so they weren't interesting. I was tempted to buy a big, leather-bound book, though; but it was too expensive to justify it.
We left, tired but content, around 4 pm.
In the evening, we just wanted to give Jörg's mother a short visit, but eventually we stayed there for a few hours. Unfortunately, I still hadn't learned my Kanji - bad Lyra - so I had to do that as well. The tesuto didn't even go that badly, considering the circumstances. I think. I'll see.
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( Kurzes Wochenende )
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On Saturday, Jörg's brother Marc and Marc's wife Claudia came to visit us so Jörg could set up Marc's new computer and they could play some Battlefield Vietnam and such. I could escape their society for most of the time, having to spend most of Saturday afternoon at my parents' because my aunt Karin and three of her sons as well as my grandmother, my Uncle Gottfried and my Aunt Hannelore came to visit. Having such a gigantic family has its drawbacks. But it was nice, all in all, although my mother apparently had invited my mostly as a baby-sitter - she expected me to entertain the boys. Well, I was just trying to organize our visit to the Spiel (a games and book expo) in Essen, which I had to interrupt, so I was slightly annoyed at that. I also had to print out some stuff for Cele, and as I was going through my image collection for that, Alessio suddenly asked who "that guy with the light" was. I therefore told him and his two brothers (well, Ricardo, anyway; I doubt Lorenzo understood much) the most edifying and salutary story of That Guy With The Light and The Woman He Got It For, otherwise known as the Lay of Leithian. And since they still hadn't seen The Return of the King, I let them watch the DVD. Because I r teh bestest baby-sitter evar. Breeding the next generation of Tolkien geeks, I am. And yes, I know that the movie is rated 12 (or PG-13, if you will); but so were part 1 and 2, and they have seen those already (without my doing) as well. So there.
But I really enjoyed Ricardo's answer when he was asked what he wanted to become when he was grown-up. He only just started school in August, and already they ask him what profession he'll chose once he's grown up. I hated that sort of thing when I was little, and, as a matter of fact, I still hate it. But Ricardo was pretty cool. He thought for a while and then answered, beaming, "Aragorn. Or the guy with the Silmathing."
To speak with Senator Palpatine, I will be watching his career with great interest.
I spent the rest of the evening playing KotOR again, and now I finally managed to shoot down those Sith fighters. By now, I even got through the first stages of Jedi apprenticeship. Yay!
On Sunday, I met with Cele and Aditu to visit the Spiel. All in all, it was smaller than last year, but still enjoyable - the LARP and fantasy part was rather bigger than last year, so no problem for me. We walked around a lot; Aditu bought some new DSA adventures and had their creators sign them; I bought the add-on to the hilarious RPG parody card game Munchkin (it has a "The One Ring" card! And the Tengwar on the One Ring read 'Made in Taiwan'! *cackles madly*), a dice with Kanji numbers and a dice with Tengwar. I also got two Nerd-zines, with highly amusing and oh-so-true evil cartoons. Cele bought a beautiful chest (originally she had wanted to buy a bow for her Aredhel costume, but lacking the money for a good one, she dropped that idea) and lots of dice. We had a short chat with Alexandra Velten and Dr Rainer Nagel, who will be at Ring*Con next weekend as well, albeit on the lecturer side, not on the audience side, about university life and last-minute term-papers. Meanwhile, someone drew a hilarious "How To Wake Great Sleepy Cthulhu" picture for Alexandra. Teeheh. There weren't as many artists as last year, though, which was a pity. *sigh* Oh well, saves paper and money. But still.
Luckily, I didn't have to buy those absolutely beautiful celtic books they sold there, because inside, they had normal lined paper, so they weren't interesting. I was tempted to buy a big, leather-bound book, though; but it was too expensive to justify it.
We left, tired but content, around 4 pm.
In the evening, we just wanted to give Jörg's mother a short visit, but eventually we stayed there for a few hours. Unfortunately, I still hadn't learned my Kanji - bad Lyra - so I had to do that as well. The tesuto didn't even go that badly, considering the circumstances. I think. I'll see.
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( Kurzes Wochenende )
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