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

I survived BILDUNGSPSYCH II! I sure as hell hope I am not jinxing myself when I say that I am at least sure I got a 4, and am crossing my fingers for a 3. JUST PASS ME PLZ. It is amazing how much one can actually miss a good ol' short answers handwritten test with NO MINUS POINTS FOR WRONG ANSWERS, thank you dicktastic multiple choice MO of 80% of PKW stuff! I knew a few things cold, wibbled on some other ones and just plain made shit up for the rest I blanked on. HERE'S HOPING FOR VICTORYYYY. And now I only have 3 1/2 more looming deadlines to go, all but one of which are due this coming friday! YAY??

Carmen and mine's traditional 'Let's get dressed up a bit and go eat at nice restaurants' thing was another resounding success ♥ We went to the Limes and it was a shining beacon of classy yet understated decor, seriously attentive staff and STUPENDOUSLY DELICIOUS FOOD. I had the Gnocchi with Mushrooms and Herb Sauce and biting into each gnocchi was like tasting a slightly chewy, yet springy pillow of potato-ey fluffy goodness. IT WAS DIVINE, FOR REALS. Also their portions were more generous than one would expect, Carmen especially got her money's worth (all 16€ of it lol) with her order of Nero Risotto with Grilled Prawns. My dessert of Pumpkin Flan with a Honey-Cinnamon Sauce was also deeeelish~ ♥ Seriously a place to rec to the parental units if they ever make it here.
OH AND SPEAKING OF FOOD: SCULPTURES MADE OUT OF GUMMI BEARS!! ...how awesome is this, come on!

LASTLY SPN 4x12: ( HERE BE SPOILERLY RAMBLAGE )

SO I THINK I AM GOING TO BE VERY STRESSED THE MOMENT I WAKE UP AGAIN(BAKK1 Zwischenbericht deadline ahhh I have nothing ahhh) AND UNTIL THURSDAY (hardcore sociology exam AHHH). EFFFFFF.
But! There is shining brilliant light in the midst of these unsavory things that I will now elaborate on in list form, because I am tired and should really try toddling off to bed :(

LIST OF YAY:
♥ DEXTER SEASON 3 FUCKING SEASON FINALE. Moaaaaar plz! I love this series so much for being so consistently good. Definitely one that I will also be buying the orig box-sets for!
♥ The delicious and sumptuous Mövenpick CREME BRULEE ice cream that Carmen and I shared as we watched Dexter, topped with a generous helping of forest berries and richly drizzled with Mozart Chocolate Liqueur
♥ Trading early X'mas presents! Carmen really liked the shirt I got her from BKK and the papaya hand cream and mangosteen hairmask, score. And I totally adored my gorgeous cookie tin filled with chocolate and the personalized snowglobe!! she made with one side being a silly pic of us both during ice-skating, and the other being one of our swank Prague pics ! AHH :DD
♥ Following the awesome of the DVD/Present thing with Fondue at Wido and Lena's! Clemens and this friend of Lena's, Katja, was there too and it was so much fun. THE FONDUE WAS DELICIOUS, even though I was actually full from the ice cream I ended up pigging out all over again. SO WORTH IT THOUGH. EFFING HOME-MADE CHEESE FONDUE. Mhhh~ And we played UNO later and I won twice. HAH.
♥ Clemens wasn't a dick! Seriously, he was so pleasant and fun, it was almost like last year in not-a-dick levels. Absence doth make the heart grow fonder? He better come to Punschen tomorrow too though.
♥ Punschen at the Karlskirche tomorrow! I get to see Tutor Georg and Dominik again! I could take or leave Georg O. and totally pass on Lis and Harry though, man this could possibly turn out so ~awkward~ tomorrow lolol
♥ THE INTERNET. ALWAYS PUTS A SMILE ON MY FACE :D

But one thing I am not looking forward to tomorrow is having to pay fucking EIGHT EUROS in library fines. Fun story: The BWZ bib closes at 4PM. I had borrowed four books over the weekend and admittedly left the house a bit late. Got to the BWZ at ten to 4PM, but figured I would have enough time to copy my needed pages out. Our IPKW library always takes a while to close, so I thought that if I took until ten past 4PM, I could still squeeze in and return the books. So I copy and copy and am finally done, toddle over to the library and seriously, it was TEN MINUTES PAST FOUR PM and the lights were out, nobody was there and the (glass) door was locked. ERGO, due to these ten minutes I will be 8€ poorer tomorrow. I almost want to just keep the books longer now since I have to pay the fine anyways (and lol, after the first 2€ pro book fine, they just add 20 cents a day whaaat). BUT FINE BWZ BIB, BE THAT FUCKING WAY D:

I SHOULD BE USING THIS AS MOTIVATION TO STUDY MOOOAR, but it is still light out and I am still headachy, so distraction per LJ first it is! Basically, I found out two days ago that the fact that I resigned myself to only being finished with university/my Bachelors Degree by next December could actually not be necessarily true. I could be done by next summer! We need a combination of 60 SWS (weekly semester hours) of Publizistik main subject classes and 30 SWS of our various electives to complete this major, and lo and behold I actually have 28 SWS for the electives already. So if I actually pass Personal + Organisation this semester (...even if that is very unlikely baaw), I would actually have 1/3 of my major all wrapped up, and if I put some back into taking as many exams for next semester now or in January as possible and pass everything now, the chance of me getting done in the projected 'normal' 6 semesters is actually doable! I have 26 SWS for PKW right now, but if I pass everything I will get an additional 18 SWS and start the summer semester with 46 SWS and asjhfas the math looks possible! I mean, I will probably hate myself and die from the stress, but it is a very warming and reassuring thought that I could do it! I can still 'take my time' and be done by December (as predicted to the parental units), but I could also see if I can try to get my shit together. AHH. AND THEN A SIX MONTH (PAID??) INTERNSHIP IN SINGAPORE OR SOMETHING WITH CARMEN before getting back to the drudgery of doing a Master's somewhere here. Good that would be awesome. Even better would be somewhere in the Staaaaaaates (Patty!), but even my dreams get cockblocked by the fact that I know that shit would be too expensive ;((

BACK TO TRYING TO STUDY. AFTER I REREAD SOME HIKAGO FIC. OH SELF WHY CAN YOU NEVER GET YOUR ACT TOGETHERRRR >_>;;

Man, time sure flew by, I guess! Have been busy with supraaaise!uni, planned!activies (IKEAAA) and surpraaaaaaaise!socialness--including surpraaaaise!finally snapping at Michi not to be such a fucking bitch when we are at a mutual friends and their friends ask me something about Thailand and even before I open my mouth he is already starting with his stupid supercilious 'I know so much better than you' face. Hah, guess I shocked him something good? Carmen maintains that it was one of the most awesome things I did that she got to witness, anyways. The actual words I said were uh, "Ey Michi fang du ned scho wieder mit deine scheiß' Fressen an, da kanns ich gleich lassen mit dem Erzählen!" "!! Ich zieh doch keine--" "VOLL. Du ziehst da immer deine scheiß' Fressen und ich hab da so was von kein Bock mehr drauf!" ......*awkward sileeeeeeeence until Carmen prompts me to continue lolol*. I am a picture of prim and proper German communication, tru fax. Now he is super creepily nice to me, as we have reached the occasional occurrence when the dude realizes that, WAIT we were actually his close friends for a while! Friends should be valued! And treated nicely! But it never really lasts, and soon I predict a return to his usual self-centered douche-baggery. What changed, what chaaanged :|

I should actually be up to here in reading for uni now, since this week is my hardcore block week, but alas, the last few hours of today and most of yesterday have been spent rereading the best of Speranza's Due South Fanfic, which is as you know, EVERY-FUCKING-ONE of them ♥, so there are worse ways to waste valuable brainspace and time, I guess!

And in lieu of anything else interesting to say, have some cute animal pics of AJ and some WEE!PUPPY pics of Ace that I managed to earth up again. GOD HE WAS SO TINY AND CUTE AND TIIIIIIINY *cooos*
( kitty and puppyyyyyyyyy eeeeee )

GIP! Finally got off my ass and set on to upload some new icons, mmmh fresh 'n new~ And speaking of the illustrious Mr. Dent, I am now able to gaze into his awe-inspiring visage every day when I toil at BK Mag. Yes I downloaded a fannish wallpaper on the company PC and it is awesomeeeee ♥

And speaking of the ~*internship*~ at BK Magazine-- here be my attempts to at least start blogging about it, if I wait for inspiration for a nice and tidy post I'd probably be done working there already. I mean, as it is it's already been nearly a month! And holy hell, how time flies when you're having fun (and trying to ignore a STEP5 deadline!). Admittedly I did have a few days off there due to public holidays, but it was when I was updating my page on the intern wiki (there is a wiki for everythiiiing these days) that I noticed that I don't really have all that an impressive body of work to my name.

The way it goes is that after the first week where you really just do grunt work and shadow the editors around their job, you get more and more freedom to do stuff like handle the smaller interviews on your own, columns, etc etc. With the kicker being that only some actually mean you get to have your by-line to it. And it just ended up that way that most of the stuff I had gotten on my to-do from the editors was fact-checking, research, stupid asking people on the street questions-- btw  I HAAAATE doing that, and it only took after the second time I had to do it to cement this opinion, but until you get 10 random people to actually say some decent sound bites or at least find some dudes who don't mind getting interviewed you become pretty damn pissed off at everything XDD--, online movie synopses... in short, it was a large amount of work, but besides one interview I did with an indie band, there was diddly-squat to my name. ...I mean, I actually don't need a writing portfolio? But it's like a matter of principle now lol and I am basically raising my hand and jumping up and down for every damn chance to do something that has my name behind it.
AWESOME WRITING TO-DO's NOW:

• 'Lookalike' column w/ P Tak ...basically a "Dress like (EXAMPLE), here some chic and similar alternatives" deal. My topic? SPEED RACER BABY. Man, trawling Siam, Bonanza and MBK for the relevant stuff w/ P Tak was hella fun~
• 'On the Bar' column on this jazzy/bluesy place  one of the photography interns and I checked out today  (Yut speaks German! I am of course teaching him all the ways to lose the precise grammar and speak like the real German hobo youth of  today :Dbbb). Am supposed to basically just give a snazzy profile of the place and why it awesome.
• 'Escapes' column. This is just a simple round-up of current hotel deals and packages that are in the area (BKK and Thailand, overseas), written up a bit.
• 'Train travel in Thailand'. CHOO CHOO BABY. Man researching this was so boring. And then the Deputy Editor told me that I could write the story myself if I wanted. I was all ' YAY! ...trains! I uh, love. ...trains *THINK OF THE BYLINEEE*'. First draft this Thursday and I have already started woo~
• 'Scene-stealer' or 'State of the Art' interview with the curator of the new art museum in BKK. I can already see some quality time spent with a thai-eng/eng-thai dictionary to pimp up my art related vocab lolol

...and the best part about all this is, besides the train story, there aren't any real deadlines! But Imma try and get as much done as quickly as possible so I can do moaaaaaar (fashion bits!!). Tomorrow's my back-content online uploading day though, wargh. HAET UPLOADING CRAP TO THE WEBSITE. So tediousssssss.
That's all from me for now, tune in tomorrow?? for some possible FLASHBACK BLA :D

The first thing Carmen said to me when I told her about my sweet score of fruity goodness: "DON'T YOU EAT ALL OF THEM AT ONCE AGAIN OKAY??". Ahh, such caring friends :D. The Digles family stand at the U4 Heiligenstadt station is truly a thing of beauty-- their cherries, raspberries and especially STRAWBERRIES are always consistently fresh, ripe, smell like heaven and are delicious ♥ Went to Hofer/Aldi later to get the seedless grapes also pictured, and to try the Ranjo brand smoothies there. SO TASTY! And for 1€ you get 237ml of truly fruitastic smoothies in flavors like Banana/Pineapple/Coconut and Mango/Orange, so it's a really good deal!

Am otherwise in a very chill state of mind, disregarding the looming exams, BECAUSE I GOT TO TAPE AN INTERVIEW FOR STEP5 YESTERDAY! With the editor for the online version of the Biber magazine, even. And I already have the second one confirmed(CHIEF EDITOR WOO) for this wednesday, FUCK IT'S SUCH A RELIEF~~ The only problem is that even with all my attempts to extend the length of the interview, it doesn't clock at more than half an hour, which is 30 minutes short of the length we are supposed to have as a minimum. Must talk to teacher at the Sprechstunde this Monday if it is acceptable as is... I mean, I did get all I wanted to out of it and my interview-partner was delightfully eloquent, as well. HMM.

Some recs that I was meaning to post since a few days already!
Art @DevArt:
One of THE most unique and pretty damn awesome Pokemon fanart I've ever seen <33
Okami!! fanart by the same artist. Simply stunning!

So surreal! Love the wings sprouting from the girl's hair, the colours, the symbolism!
Same artist as the previous link again. This pic is so chock-full of goodness and interesting things to look at. The text-art looks pretty damn cool.

'Realistic' Harry Potter looks pretty damn HOT *3*
The Naruto boys all as kitsunes! Hee, such a cute pic!
LOL 'Sailor Disney' LOL (Never knew Ariel had a daughter??)
A delicate and pretty pic of FMA!Movie Al
Now with Ed, Al and Alfons Heiderich in some pretty spiffy gear!

Gorgeous Arisugawa Juri from SKU cosplay.
WOAH. Was never into Slayers at all, but even I can tell a BADASS Lina cosplay when I see one.
Mononoke's Medicine Seller! Wooo~~

~*SPECIAL EMPHASIS FOR THIS LINK*~
This entire gallery is A-W-E-S-O-M-E! Remembered their Bleach and Deathnote shoots, but no idea that they have Naruto and Ouran cosplay shoots now!! EEEEE!!

I DON'T EVEN REMEMBER WHAT I SPENT MOST OF TODAY DOING. :///

Met Joachim in PR though and got his belated gift for me, this adorable mug that was filled with pralines and mars bars! Which was perfect timing, as I was actually really really hungry at that moment, heh! MARS BARS GLUE YOUR JAW TOGETHER THOUGH! Apparently I can also still expect Clemens and Nardo's gift on friday-- something to do with watching "Be Kind Rewind" akjssfa, which is awesome~~. La's present came last friday, and the Uni Basel purple shirt of ~*STYLE*~ contained therein (along with pear-chili bathgel and a mix CD) is now up in my new favorite T-shirts to wear all the time AHH SO COMFY AND STYLISH~~! Makes me jealous in a way, Uni Wien's shirts aren't even half as cool XDD

The iMar test turned out to be tricksy only in the SHEER VOLUME of the questions, and it turns out doing the last minute cram session with the online self-tests was very smart indeed. Must keep in mind for the Final~. Business English I midterm is tomorrow, followed by II on Thursday and I must say that I feel guilty for not really preparing for it, but the sad truth is that no matter how shoddy I would actually write the exam, it would probably still be better than most of the class... that's how bad the general english skills in B E I are >_>;; MUST NOT GET COCKY THOUGH, shall do some last minute checks tomorrow morning~

OH AND I WANT THIS KEYCHAIN akjdhs ISHIDA FINALLY SOME MERCHANDISE WITH YOUU AGAIN! My phone yearns for your presence! And lol I'd probably buy two just to be safe XDD

+ One more Youtube link for the road. PIANO VERSION OF 'GOD KNOWS' ♥

Back! After eight long days of no internet chez grandparents! Yesterday evening was already spent vegging out gleefully, and here a post to collect some of the links that tickled me pink:

DEAD FANTASY I and II
via tomomichi ♥
The Final Fantasy girls vs. the Dead or Alive girls. Yuna, Rikku, Tifa and later on Rinoa and Kairi (no idea bout the DoA chicks, just squeeing for the FF ladies here XD). No holds barred Battle Royale. IN OTHER WORDS: SO FUCKING EPIC. This are the fanmade(!!) vids I never knew I had to have seen. The detailed and awesomely choreographed fights! THE BEAUTIFUL CG MODELS for the girls! The weapons! The final moves and limit breaks! More squee behind the cuts! GO WATCH THE VIDS FIRST AND BASK IN THEIR GLORY

Dead Fantasy I
( SQUEEEEE )

Dead Fantasy II
( SQUEE McSQUEEEEE SQUEE )

JENSEN ACKLES
Tis nothing better when you are randomly link-hopping and then come across some mighty fine picspams of gorgeous men (TAYLOR KITSCH(Timmy Riggins on FNL) and JENSEN AND JARED(These names should already speak for themselves :D)) and then stumble upon a HI-RES shot of this pic:

HELLO NEW WALLPAPER! And by hi-res I mean 'takes up a third of my display, and the rest is beautiful clean whiteness. Must unclutter desktop to accommodate this ♥'

LOLZ
I WANT THIS T-shirt.

ALSO. A Gossip Girl dude 'going gay'. TEN BUCKS SAY IT'S CHUCK. His big gay love for Nate is PALPABLE when you watch GG *srs nods*

CFUD
Catching up on 8 days of awesome! A truth or dare post! Mafia and AT-tard antics! PW cast! More series noted down to check out (Vinland Saga, Pandora Hearts...)

Ahh, that was lovely ♥. And now a note to self: GO TO FUCKING BED EARLIER. My dorm has better lighting than my Krimml room, and okay life in Wienna has the added incentive of actually seeing OTHER PEOPLE on a day to day basis that aren't related to me, which makes the fact that I currently look like a wreck very worrying (=stronger bags under the eyes, skin break-out and my hair is rebelling... Noooooooo D:)

IKEA trip today with Michi, Carmen, Nathalie and Lis! Hilarity and mass spending abounded, where I was finally not the one who spent the most money! (That dubious honour went to Michi this time with 63 € hohoho vs. my 51€ XDD)

Things I have awesomely managed to build together:
_ PORTIS (HEROICALLY WIELDING A SCREWDRIVER)
_ BABORD
_ STATIST (OKAY this doesn't really count ahahaha ^^)
_ ... two magenta storage boxes that I am currently unable to find on the website


Ahhh, am long not done with the IKEA-trip inspired remodeling of my room (TBC tomorrow lol), but even so the difference is already really pleasing. Things have their place! It is all so orderly! I am finally throwing away the crap I had somehow hoarded since my first semester here (...empty caviar jars??)! BLISS. Will be posting some before and after pics, fo' sure~

OTHERWISE I now have to quickly read and make intelligent notes about my assigned Business English II reading due tomorrow-- "International Financial Instability in a World of Currencies Hierarchy". 31 pages of NOT INTERESTINGNESS woooooooo.