Ninjas STILL can't catch you if you're on fire

Have spent the better part of last night and today ripping vids of YouTube like crazy due to this lovely link(http://vixy.net/flv_converter) that chirachira pimped. IT'S WONDERFUL! All the song MVs! Due South clips! Anime clips! Gag reels! Retarded stuff like 'Yugi-Oh condensed in 4 minutes' or the 'Snorlax' vid(will post links later lol)! Ahhh~

But the day was spent with Olga- blowing my budget eating tasty things and running around the Mariahilfer Straße(...am so depressed that I might have to get all my mantel in the future from the MENS SECTION of H&M. I mean, wtf my arms aren't that long DDD:), getting MYSTERIOUS THINGS FOR SOMEONE and hitting up Runch!Comics for HONEY AND CLOVER 2 yesssss ♥

Also am supposed to go to do SOMETHING w/ Fabian today, but we are currently waffling back and forth via email about what! and where! and when! ...Gah. What one does for social interaction. The movie(idea with the highest percentage of being realised) better be done before the last U-Bahn though. How I hate the fact that people rather go to the movies at night here. I DON'T LIKE THE DARK OKAY :(((


Oh and Kat? TWO DOWN AND ...well, the rest to go! Do you get my drift *eyebrow waggle*? ;D

In a stunning turn of events, Miss Sharon K. is again sitting in front of the laptop, YouTube open to utterly retarded clips and her actual homework of a 20 page reading lying untouched next to her.


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BUUUT otherwise! Step 2 Tutorial was funtimes as usual, and I again managed to weird everyone out by being able to ramble about the Ukyio-e print of the 'Dream of the Fisherman's Wife' being the precursor to the tentacle porn of today and what the censorship laws on hentai manga (GLOWING CONE OF LIIIGHT)etc etc... Hee. Um. At least they only suspect me of reading far too much het porn that expected for an 18-year old girl?
Also hung out with a different group after Tut, as Horst and co. had to work on their presentation, but it ended up being enjoyable with Astrid, Phil and Lukas(he of the weird hat. Weeeeeirdo). Thought it was cool that Phil kept me company until I had Uni again at three-- we made the ...sudden! discovery that the Stefansdom is actually just ten walking minutes away from the Uni, proving again that you can kinda reach most things in Wienna hella fast on foot!
We went to this swanky and apparently famous hotel-cocktail bar thing(called Do&Co?) that had a really lovely view of the 'Steffel' and tried to act all posh drinking our 10 Euro cocktails(Straaaawberry Margerita! And okay it was at least after 12 already XDD). Had fun talking with Phil and am all chuffed that I have found a person I can just randomly throw English phrases or references at and have them be understood here! Also it amused me that he also wanted to buy the same 'Kill Heidi' tee that I was wearing that La got me, alas there weren't any manly-man sizes for him XDDD Poor Swissie-person!

Thursdays are awesome, if it were only not for the impending DOOM of STEP3 tomorrow! DAMN YOU WALLNER! DAMN YOUUUUUUUU DD:

PS. My roomie's Special Male Friend seems to be over for a few days and we had the loveliest first meeting of me standing by the fridge getting my pear(still tasty even after two weeks inna fridge!) and then him coming out of the bathroom in just his white jockey-underpants. Bet he thought I was Sabrina, loooool

Dear self,

...never, EVER, buy the 'fresh' seafood from INTERSPAR again, no matter how much your heart yearns for some good old fruits of the sea. Stick to the crap from the can, IT'S SAFER. (And to think I heated it up for sauce=death to bacteria right??)

:(,
Shaz

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Oh and I am now swimming in a godly amount of TWENTY-FOUR packets of White TARO Fish-Snacks- the grand tally of the two care-packages that Sue sent me. Plus a ginormous Mama Instant Noodle value pack. AND MY PINK BLANKET *totally has it on a la superhero cape ♥ swiiish*

Stepped on one of my 10 euro earrings by accident and broke it too, which is one unfortunate side to an otherwise a-okay day.
Got some errands done! Did some shopping! Started(kinda) my assignments due for Thursday and Friday! Go go go!

I think I shall reward myself with some pornfic now~

I continue to be dramatically sucktastic in actually productively using my now vast amounts of free time to actually GET SOME FRICKIN' WORK DONE. Um. At least I am fully-rested now? Ahahaha...

Also it turns out that after a gazillion phone calls and mild panic attacks at the relevant people MY MISSING PACKAGE HATH REAPPEARED! "Why yes Miss K(insert misspronounciation of my last name here wtf people it's A GERMAN LAST NAME), so lovely for you to call again! Well it seems that some packages just snuck their way in!" ...'snuck their way in' over the weekend, my ass. Ahh well, off to find said post office tomorrow then. AND THEN I GET MY BLANKET(the pink satin one aaaaah ♥ A bit of my childhood!) and can see the other stuff that Sue sent me. God I love getting packages, even if sometimes the Post screws up~

Lectures today were not-thrilling as usual, but I made my own entertainment by drawing again- this time older!Orihime that I was quite happy with. Shall try and take a pic of it and post later(man, not having a scanner is irritating)... Next goal: Drawing more than one person at a time lol, it's haaaard. But have Carmen's eraser and nifty mechanical pencil at my disposal yay~

Looking forward to wednesday already-- IKEAAAAAA ♥ (man I need some new bedsheets. And stuffed animals. Am such a six year old in this respect)

MATURANA PRESENTATION DONE! Ish! Before MIDNIGHT EVEN!
...now this would be perfect and I could totally lay down for some well-deserved rest if only I hadn't just noticed that the STEP3 homework isn't just read 20 pages of text X(which I would've done on the train on the way there or something), it's read 20 pages of text X and do an abstract and excerpt of it. GNARRRRGH noeeeees... WALLNER AH HATE YOUR COURSE.

Today was otherwise a suprisingly lovely, although quiiite cold again day. Comics Tut was pure genius as usual, even with my brain at 15% due to having returned home at 5.30AM this morning and getting 3 1/2 hours sleep. Plus I HAVE MUSKELKATER. From just dancing! And I was the one in sneakers ...man, I really must've gotten really unfit in these few months of Wienna, aheh. This club/bar(Kaiko) was the best so far though, re:music and it turns out that if you have an ERASMUS sticker that they apparently hand out like candy over in the AAKH you get in for free. Am tempted to camp up my accent and go get one myself actually~ But seriously(lol), quite the shortage of hot guys to be found here *sigh*. We've only met weird or suprisingly OLD(...like 27 and he and his buddies were still going to student parties) guys, and the best thing is that the cute/okay-looking ones ones always kinda mack on Carmen and then offhandedly mention that 'oh, they have a long-time girlfriend btw but she's out of town this week *significant pauuuuse*' ...like that's gonna make someone jump into their bed like snap. Whuuut.
Pictures will prolly be posted this weekend inna batch with the one's I'll be taking this Saturdaaaay~

Looking forward to this Saturday's Christmas Bazaar-openings in the whole city! FOOD! PUNSCH! KITSCH! Tis bound to be fun~ AND I CAN ACTUALLY SLEEP IN ON SUNDAY GAWD.

Oh and KAAAAAT we really need to set up some Skype-time!!!1 :D?

PS Am reading Genshiken now and kajfhk SO FUNNY ♥ I love CFUD for introducing me to new canons like this~

Since I discovered a backlog from my last DA trawlage session that I forgot to post, ahehehe~

__ http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/29601156/?qo=8&q=by%3Asuperspacemonkey&qh=sort%3Atime+-in%3Ascraps ...DDS! Serph! I really need to finish this game so I can start DDS2~~

__ http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/32066529/?qo=5&q=by%3Aarasdel&qh=sort%3Atime+-in%3Ascraps ...FFX! So rare to find pretty art for this series~~ TIDUS ILU

__ http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/35165585/?qo=10&q=by%3Aippus&qh=sort%3Atime+-in%3Ascraps ...I have such a thing for cute Sasuke and Naruko art, especially in an AU setting and this one is simply adorable!

__ http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/38887137/ ...NINJA DOGPILE! Eee pokefreak has lovely art in general, check out their entire gallery while you're at it

__ http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/34044302/?qo=46&q=by%3Apokefreak&qh=sort%3Atime+-in%3Ascraps ...Gorgeous colouring! Maaaaan O_Obb

__ http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/39945295/?qo=1&q=by%3Aorioto&qh=sort%3Atime+-in%3Ascraps ...Wee 'realistic'photo-style Naruto! This looks just so cool :D

__ http://www.deviantart.com/view/37100309/?qo=4&q=by%3Aorioto&qh=sort%3Atime+-in%3Ascraps ...and from the same artist as the above pic-- wee Gaara! *aaaawe* HIS EYES

__ http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/41826724/ ...Sandfreak is another artist who hardly updates, but when one does happen-- SO GOOD. This pic is full of kickass and makes me all warm and fuzzy for Naruto and Sakura doing their ninja thing together ♥

__ http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/35458668/ ...LAST, but NOT LEAST. THIS. IS. MINDBLOWINGLY HOT. GUUUUUH. SASUKE. AGED-UP. CURSE SEAL. ALKDLAKfjdlsfakjlfjlkj ♥ ♥ ♥ No wonder it has like 19,000++ views now. JUST A++++++ O________Obbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb

...heh this turned out to be mostly Naruto. Well, what can I say ... I might not like where the manga is right now, but I will always love the characters and I just ferverently pray that Kishimoto will get his plot mojo back again SOON. :D??


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Otherwise? I continue to fail at actually coming to lectures on time(Ahehehehe OOPS), yet thankfully Anja and Carmen and various assorted others are all there to save me a seat. I really should start paying actual attention to what is being said in the lectures though, seems like we just go there to talk and chit chat, since the relevant slides and stuff for the lectures can all be gotten beforehand online. So Carmen and I have decided that from NEXT WEEK ONWARDS we approach our uni experience with more elan! MORE ESPRIT! God this wouldn't all be necessary if class were actually interesting XDD
Also got to meet a new person, Verena, kinda by osmosis as she was a friend of a friend of Sara's(this guy called Yann who actually baked Sara A CAKE for her birthday today, which is already very cute and aww-inducing gesture normally, but in this case evenmore so, as Yann looks like the biggest lazy stoner ever and the cake he made was colourful, had a chocolate glaze and tiny smarties in the shape of a '20'. Man)

TOMORROW NIGHT: SOHO COCKTAIL BAAAAAR! But before that grocery shopping! And laundry?? And more uni prep kjafshkljf urgggggh D:

Thursday late mornings are becoming something I am really starting to look forward to. Even if it turned out that the purpose of the drawing exercise was just for us to sort our 'work' on a scala of realistic to abstract(A iconic pyramid or something?) and it seems that a few of us(*cough*) kinda overshot ourselves for it... Although I wouldn't have had the balls to just show up with a STICK FIGURE or a FLOWER POT as my drawing. Jeez, not like the assignment was to write a 2 page essay or something! Harald won for most effort put in though-- as he actually drove to the stationary store half an hour before closing time because he realised that he didnt have anything by way of stationary that was more than a pencil and for some reason, a calculator XDDD
And our tutor Georg wore a SKIRT today to usher in our new topic of 'Gender construction in comics'! Very uh, flattering for his svelte calves I must say~ We(Horst, Fabian, Astrid and me) then went for coffee with him after the tut and much fun and random discussion was had. Am much wiser about the various drinking games now! And other weird tidbits of info that will no doubt take the place of Important Uni Things lol~

Also discovered that McD's can also be a place to meet new and shiny people, as we were chilling there afterwards(Horst and me both have lectures at three in the main uni so I have a person to waste time with yay!) and got into random conversation with Lisa who studies psych. Also learnt that there are kids(a little posse of probably 12 year old shits) that just deserve to be smacked, and then kicked some more. They apparently decided that since they were sitting at the table next to us they were fully entitled to parrot things we talked about in loud annoying voices, call us random stupid names and it seemed like they were taking handycam pics of us and going 'ewwww' etc over them too. I MEAN, WTF. THEY WERE THAT BORED. Nothing you could do but ignore them tho-- I mean I did yell at one to shut the fuck up if he didn't want to get his fucking face punched but ahhh, not like that really helped(oh man if only these were brats at school! I was already kinda twitching to whack my tray over the main one's head) ...but they left soon enough, thankfully. What the hell is wrong with kids these days? The nerve some of them have >:/

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Oh and in a fit of Dad-benevolence disguised in vague threats I AM ALLOWED TO VISIT LA IN SWITZERLAND OMG OMG OMG it only took me a year of lobbying(and more of strongly hinting lol)in that direction and I can book the plane tickets tomorrow already and fingers crossed I will be spending FIVE awesome days w/La before I have to go back to Vienna, hop on a train to Zell am See, then a bus and I should be at grandparent's place on the Night before Christmas(hah)!!!!! Already had to swear up and down that Yes, I will be there and with Non-Crap Presents for all(=ask for approval before choosing as I 'have shit taste' when it comes to relative gifts why thanks for the vote of confidence DAD) and I will be scrimping from now on and I can 'forget any other holidays for a loooong long time' and other things that are vaguely guilt-trip inducing re:I AM COSTING MY PARENTS MORE MONEY DDDD: but I am rationalising that this is just his way of saying that I shouldn't take it for granted? BUT EEEE I FINALLY FINALLY FINAAAAALLY GET TO GO VISIT ONE OF MY OLDEST BEST FRIENDS I HAVEN'T ACTUALLY SEEN IN NEARLY 3(??shit i don't even know anymore)YEARS AND kahgljgsalkjfaj FINALLY :D :D :D

HAPPY!

...so my internet got cut off for nearly two days. Ahaha. Happens when you forget to pay, I guess XDD Made me realize how much of an ingrained reflex it is for me by now when I get in my room to FIRST switch on the laptop, then deal with other ..trifles like grocery bags, wet boots or whathaveyou >__>;;
Ah well! Feeeeels good to have it back! Especially since I have to use it for Serious Business now too-- presentation on some biologist dude(Humberto Maturana ring a bell for anyone?) next week and some major planning as to how to commence Operation Not Spend the Whole Winter Hols in Tiny Austrian Town AKA go see LAAA in Switzerland. Should get some cold hard facts before I try to butter up the parental units AND the grandparents lol...

Otherwise a lovely day today-- got to see the actually quite swanky city library whilst meeting up with the girl I'm doing Maturana with ...and our study date turned out to be more of an extended lunch thing, which was awesome. Asian food that wasn't inpalatable! In Wienna! Who'd a thought~
And I got nice random phonecalls that made me kinda late for uni, but that ain't exactly a problem so ♥


AAAAnd it was 'warm' today! ...o man how far I have fallen, to call around 10 degrees warm...

...i-it started to snow today. Only for a short bit, mind you. BUT STILL.

SNOW.







...eww ;__________________;

*off to do uni coursework DD:*

...I mean, I actually had a discussion with (ex-classmate) Sven on skype over this, of all people. Also learnt what 'fucking in the kitchen' means in dutch ...'something' in the 'koeken'? Gaaah my short term memory faiiiils! As does he apparently, for being in Holland for over 4 months and only knowing how to say that and 'Proooooooest'. Though the general consensus seems to be drunk and slurred german=almost!dutch lol

Spent the rest of the day in vague state of paranoia that I was somehow one hour behind everything, even if by then I'd already set my watch and everything. (kind of came late to lecture too, buuuut ahaha this wouldve happened anyway ooops)
THIS WOULD NEVER BE NECESSARY IN BKK, mind!

My STEP1 &2 in uni remain vaguely boring, amused myself by scribbling in my agenda ...man I miss having someone to write or doodle stupid things in it. And it seems that my tastes in food tend to be more extreme? than the others ...was looked at weirdly today for gushing about eating Sunkist Orange wedges liberally doused/SOAKED in honey. ---that's not weird right?? I mean, the honey is a)tasty and b)would help cover the sourness if the oranges werent that good. ...Plus you get this really delish runny honey-OJ mixture on the plate ♥
Finger lickin' good! (even better with Cinnamon sugar, too!)

I mean, some people like mayo on plain noodles, which is weird too right? I just like REALLY really salty or sweet things. ...I keep getting told that my tastebuds are slowly dying off though. I say that you just season better in Asia. Tis the truth, whut whut :Db