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Random Ranting XXIX
Oct. 31st, 2006 07:00 pmIf Prof. Adone keeps overrunning her classes with nothing but totally pointless talk ("Ok, let's go through this again. Anyone got a question about the first part of the presentation? No? Are you sure? Nobody?" until someone asks some totally pointless question that has been answered during the presentation already. UNTIL every paragraph of the presentation has been talked through. AGAIN.), I think I'm going to hate semantics by the end of the semester the next class.
But I still managed to be at our local gothic monstrosity a.k.a. the Cologne cathedral in time to meet![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nimielle. We went to Starbucks for a hot beverage and a sandwich and talked about a lot of random stuff, which was fun.
Afterwards I had to go to my museum class, but I wanted to visit the Schatzkammer before that to buy some mead. That turned out to be a good idea inasmuch as they're having bargain prices on mead this week (which I didn't know before). I bought four bottles, two of them the expensive kinds (made from lavender honey and linden honey, respectively) and two of the regular, for a bit under 20 Euros. (The lavender mead alone usually costs 9 Euros. Or 13 if you buy it at the Byzanz store in Bochum, which, logically, is not a smart thing to do.) But I missed my class afterwards because I got stuck there; firstly I ogled some nice LARP swords but couldn't decide for one (but discussed the advantages and disadvantages of them with the shop owner and the visiting owner of another LARP forge), then some guy told me everything about his mercenary character (I think he was hitting on me; I was the only girl in the store, after all, who was not there for a last-minute Halloween costume but by virtue of being an actual live girl geek), reminisced in some Urukfest memories, and then it was too late for the seminar. >_> Ah well. It wasn't my group's turn anyway, so it would've been more sitting around listening to boring discussions.
Getting home took ages and I didn't find a sufficiently large pumpkin for stuffed pumpkin. Boo. Admittedly, trying to buy a sufficiently large pumpkin on Oct 31st of all days may be a tad stupid, even in a country that doesn't actually observe Hallowe'en (except for those that jump on every bandwagon, little kiddies, and Wiccans, who at least have a reason to celebrate - happy Samhain to them, btw!).
Speaking of Oct 31st:nimielle shockingly didn't know anything about NaNo, so here's the link for her (and anyone else interested in joining before it kicks off in this country): NaNoWriMo.
I'm desperately trying to put my Ring*Con costume together before midnight today. Real life keeps interfering.
Our landlord has decreed that we may only have two cats in our flat. The brothers we didn't want to separate, but Shakira had chosen us herself, so giving her away seemed rather like a betrayal. Then again, the kittens have been annoying her for quite a while - they're growing up, playfully attacking her, being noisy whereas she likes things calm, etc. So instead of Darcy - as it was originally planned - Shakira now lives with Jörg's mother. ;_; We brought her there on Sunday; after an hour or so of exploring the new surroundings, she actually seemed quite relaxed and snuggled against Jörg's mother, too; but she says the cat isn't eating, and walking around mewing all night. I hope she'll eventually accept the new place. It is calmer and more comfortable than our flat, and Jörg's mother is more attentive than we can be, but of course it's not the place she chose back in the day...
*sighs*
Gnah.
Jörg turned on the heating. As it is the way with men, they tend to exaggerate; it's now too hot. I think it's entirely unnecessary to be able to sit in front of your computer in a t-shirt when it's November tomorrow. Especially with our energy prices. But perhaps that's just me and my having got used to 16°C room temperature during the last week. >_>
But I still managed to be at our local gothic monstrosity a.k.a. the Cologne cathedral in time to meet
nimielle. We went to Starbucks for a hot beverage and a sandwich and talked about a lot of random stuff, which was fun.Afterwards I had to go to my museum class, but I wanted to visit the Schatzkammer before that to buy some mead. That turned out to be a good idea inasmuch as they're having bargain prices on mead this week (which I didn't know before). I bought four bottles, two of them the expensive kinds (made from lavender honey and linden honey, respectively) and two of the regular, for a bit under 20 Euros. (The lavender mead alone usually costs 9 Euros. Or 13 if you buy it at the Byzanz store in Bochum, which, logically, is not a smart thing to do.) But I missed my class afterwards because I got stuck there; firstly I ogled some nice LARP swords but couldn't decide for one (but discussed the advantages and disadvantages of them with the shop owner and the visiting owner of another LARP forge), then some guy told me everything about his mercenary character (I think he was hitting on me; I was the only girl in the store, after all, who was not there for a last-minute Halloween costume but by virtue of being an actual live girl geek), reminisced in some Urukfest memories, and then it was too late for the seminar. >_> Ah well. It wasn't my group's turn anyway, so it would've been more sitting around listening to boring discussions.
Getting home took ages and I didn't find a sufficiently large pumpkin for stuffed pumpkin. Boo. Admittedly, trying to buy a sufficiently large pumpkin on Oct 31st of all days may be a tad stupid, even in a country that doesn't actually observe Hallowe'en (except for those that jump on every bandwagon, little kiddies, and Wiccans, who at least have a reason to celebrate - happy Samhain to them, btw!).
Speaking of Oct 31st:
nimielle shockingly didn't know anything about NaNo, so here's the link for her (and anyone else interested in joining before it kicks off in this country): NaNoWriMo.I'm desperately trying to put my Ring*Con costume together before midnight today. Real life keeps interfering.
Our landlord has decreed that we may only have two cats in our flat. The brothers we didn't want to separate, but Shakira had chosen us herself, so giving her away seemed rather like a betrayal. Then again, the kittens have been annoying her for quite a while - they're growing up, playfully attacking her, being noisy whereas she likes things calm, etc. So instead of Darcy - as it was originally planned - Shakira now lives with Jörg's mother. ;_; We brought her there on Sunday; after an hour or so of exploring the new surroundings, she actually seemed quite relaxed and snuggled against Jörg's mother, too; but she says the cat isn't eating, and walking around mewing all night. I hope she'll eventually accept the new place. It is calmer and more comfortable than our flat, and Jörg's mother is more attentive than we can be, but of course it's not the place she chose back in the day...
*sighs*
Gnah.
Jörg turned on the heating. As it is the way with men, they tend to exaggerate; it's now too hot. I think it's entirely unnecessary to be able to sit in front of your computer in a t-shirt when it's November tomorrow. Especially with our energy prices. But perhaps that's just me and my having got used to 16°C room temperature during the last week. >_>
