GRAB THE SNAKE!

*flops*

Just came back from seeing Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Dreadful title, highly enjoyable movie. I mean, it's crack. But it's authentic Indiana Jones-style crack. With aliens. And lots of in-jokes. A joke I missed, though - what with the alien stuff (this does not count as a spoiler, shuddup) - would have been someone saying "Who are you" and Indy going "I'm the Doctor". There was "I have a bad feeling about this" though!

Otherwise, there was a moment when I had a lot of bad Gondolin jokes in my mind, and a lot of moments that called for massive suspension of disbelief.

But it's a hell of a good ride.

Most uncomfortable cinema visit evah, though. We only got the additional emergency crowd seats attached to the front rows, so we sat right in front of the screen BUT on the very right side. Some funny distortions and a sore neck included for free.

But yeah, it's insane and fun, so go watch it if you like the original trilogy.
The audience was really good too- but then I suppose the kind of people who go to an English language preview in a German cinema have to be the kind of people who recognise in-jokes and laugh and applaud in the right places.

Lyra off. Photos tomorrow.

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Zu müde zum Übersetzen.

A Day In My Life - Photo Meme III

( Mittwoch/Wednesday )

Quotes of the Day:

Text: ful semely after hir mete she raughte
Translation by student: "She smoked very seemly after her meal?"
(ok, the joke here is that rauchte is German for "smoked", and this student apparently didn't realise it meant "reached.")

Prof. Wilcockson: "De Consolatione Philosophiae was translated into English by King Alfred, and Chaucer, and later again by Elizabeth I, at a time when we had royalty who could read books."

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In other news I'm PISSED OFF because we won't go the Viking Festival in Iceland after all (this year). Because flights (the only part we have to pay for, remember) are too expensive now. WELL YES. PERHAPS YOU COULD HAVE ORGANISED THAT RIGHT WHEN YOU GOT THE INVITATION IN EARLY MARCH RATHER THAN WAITING THREE MONTHS BUT TELLING EVERYBODY YOU WERE TAKING CARE OF IT. 680 €! I flew to Japan and back for 680 €! Honestly. I love the people, but sometimes they fail so much at organising that it's PAINFUL.
Two seminars I would've had to skip in that week have been cancelled because the professors are away - like that wasn't a good omen! Should've known it was too good to be true. Wyrd bîð ful aræd.

Well, at least I won't have to make last-minute Viking garb then, and can take care of my cracky forest kami garb instead.