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

__ always have the print outs of the lesson ready (to doodle on)

__ 'arriving just on time' means sitting your ass on the floor between the seating rows for 2 hours YAY FOR OVERCROWDED LECTURE HALLS

__ there can never be too much food to eat during the lectures

__ the value of someone next to you to talk to cannot be fully measured

__ my concentration seems to have been shot to hell and back. GREAT



__ ...AND GOD SOME OF THE PROFS ARE SO BOOOOOORING kslfjlAJLSFKJSFsjmfhd


Oh and our shared bathroom is now sparkly clean as Sabrina, my quasi roommate who was again returned from another of her sudden disappearances, seems to be the type to let things be and the SUDDENLY clean everything like a soul possessed. S all good for me though :D We even have these free postcards from downstairs decorated our teeny kitchen wall. Niiice ♥ (I have the same motiv hanging on my closet--tis a lady with creepy fake contacts, v. futuristic and cool)

PUBLIZISTIK FESTL TOMORROW wooohoo I hope this will be better than my previous Wiennese nightlife experiences. Seems to be a big deal too, even V. who's in the BOKU(Bodenkultur Uni) is coming with a bunch of people.

...eventho it is now nearly midnight, I am still inordinately thrilled that finally, after so much running around and idiotic happenings ---LAUNDRY FINISH GET!! And with no shrinkage OR weird colour mixes! Best of all it seems that my whites are even whiter, my colours even brighter! Haaaah Ariel washing powder costs like 10 euros, but this apparently the good shit.

Oh and I am supposed to write 2 to 3 pages on an incomprehensible text of 15 pages that I have read thrice, but yet have absorbed it's sense besides 'bla blah KOMMUNIKATIONSTHEORIE bla blah anthropologists suck bla we know stuff YET we don't know even MORE stuff bla BLA BLA', plus the sinking feeling I have that the questions I am supposed to answer don't seem to BE about the text. Buuut that can be done later, for I have some Princess Tutu and redownloaded Ouran to watch ♥

Also: I LOVE MY COMICS TUTORIAL and we havent really even done anything yet. Our homework assigment: Draw one A4 page of whatever you want(!!!) and bring one A4 copy of your favorite comic/manga character or panel(!!!!!!!) YAY now this is something I would gladly spend hours on. Waaah, what should I choose? Am thinking either some hilarious Bleach crack or some Vagabond awesomeness, except that I don't have any scantalations ...hrmm off to imagegoogle then!
And HORST(even the teacher cracks up about his name-- 'Horrrrrrrrrrrst~') and Harald and Fabian are great fun dudes. Ahaaha we were sitting in a cafe afterwards and they were sharing all the special things that happen to you in the army; weird tales of drunken hijinks; how the youth these days is out to get you!!1; how breaking bones in new and creative ways hurts like fuck and so on and so forth and I was cracking up and dyyying it was so damn funny. Good times ♥

Got to drink my first authentic(albeit sugar-infused like woah) coffee in Vienna too! So now I can legitimately sit in coffeehouses and read newspaper, living out the viennese cliche! (...that plus about 2L of coke and I am still A-OK. My system must be immune to these levels of caffeine already lol)

**What did I do today**:

_ went to bed at 5AM, for NO REASON whut, got up at 3PM
_ made lunch/omelette with expired cheese(HEAT KILLS THE BACTERIA RIGHT??)
_ took out the trash
_ read epic Due South and HP fics (still doing now atm)


_ ...ignored the list of things to do today. Like study! GARGH am such a productive member of society


Why isn't anybody online right now? And why is it so damn cold mommy i dun wanna have to learn how to use a heater yet!! Am convinced that the one in my room will EXPLODE and I will die a fiery death of DOOOOOM or something...


:(

...because god damn if the temperature doesn't drop like heck once it gets later than 5PM. Nah... it actually starts in the morning, warms up and gets freeezing again. GAH. At least the other people I know are suffering too, altho there is always the random weirdo on the U-bahn still in shorts and a tank-top. FREAKS

Had my long-awaited Tutorial about Comics today and it is AWESOME and probably the only thing on my schedule this year that I will actually be looking forward to attending! I mean, pysch is kinda cool only by virtue that we have to use an english book, which for everyone else is DOOM and me? Am totally thrilled lol. But back to the Tut- the teacher dude is this really chilled-out guy("You guys have to speak up today 'cause I went to a Metal concert yesterday and my hearings still kinda fucked") and it seems like my group, 'the second round' is more fun than the first. I mean, I had already had fun standing around in the hall with the others, just bullshitting and waiting for the first group to be done. Am somehow this time hanging out with the guys, as the girls weren't very talkative this first hour. Have to do my presentation with some Jennifer chick(MANGA YESSS PERFECT TOPIC SCOORE!), so here's hoping she turns out to be nice.
But am otherwise happy chatting with Horst, Harald and Klaus-Fabian too. Haaah re:their Ur-german names tho!
The best part was also actually finding the damn building the tutorial was in, as the AAKH campus seems to have been designed by a very sadistic bastard who delights in making people wander the campus confused out of their minds. And like the actual STAFF there aren't helpful at all re:locations of places... which is kinda sad. Ah well~

Went to a Freshies meet today too, where ironically the people supposed to head it didnt show up after all(D'OH) ...but had a great time anyways and met some really friendly people(an egyptian/german dude! Chinese chick! Afghani chick! Italian chick! And germans too of course :P) that I'll prolly chill in the afternoon with tomorrow.
And then the evening shall be spent with my first time clubbing(?) in Vienna, if you can call going to a alt-rock ish bar 'clubbing', where I shall be going with the ladies from yesterday. In that group I have already been awarded the role of the constantly confused/verpeilte one ...>_>;; IT'S NOT MY FAULT THEY SOMETIMES TALK SO SOFTLY ...or fiercely debate stuff like the price of so and so and I automatically start ignoring the maths aspect of that and thus zone out! Also I was hungry today. And copying the stupid pysch book(270 pages for 20 EUROS blargh)wasn't exactly somewhere where I'm at the top of my mental game anyhow~

Off to bed!

...have to get up at 6:30AM tomorrow to have enough time to make it to my lecture at 8:00AM. Wrrry I thought I put all this getting up early behind me from school. Bah.

Shall toddle over to sleep now soon, after I read a super-angsty Due South epic(so the disclaimer warned)~

Cross your fingers that I'll hear the alarm tomorrow! (New Friend Julia also said that she'd call and check if I were conscious yet at 7, which was really sweet of her to offer ♥ Altho it's kinda funny that I seem to suddenly be the 'lucky rich kid' of our trio/quartett just because I have the parentals expense credit cards, which is a new sensation for me. Huh. And yet I am still the only one stuck inna dorm outside the 'city center', as they all live like 10 mins max away from Uni)



...PS KAT. SKYPE!

Got to talk to Migel on msn yesterday and was updated with some scandalous!!1omg gossip bout the rest of the BKKers, which was kinda fun ♥ And then I found out that it was 5AM his time and he stayed awake an extra hour longer to chat with me, which was a very heartwarming d'awwwww moment~

Have otherwise been kinda slumming like a hobo in my room, which admittedly saves money AND the day kinda passes by quickly when you spend half of it asleep and the other half mainlining Scrubs S3(=BRILLIANT. SPARKLING. JOYFUL. JD and Turk and Dr.Cox and the Janitor and all of the cast=LOVE LOVE ♥) and failing at making up new! and original! ways to cook pasta.

Note to self: trying to cook instant soup and pasta in the same pot, at the same time results only in pasta with clumps of msg flavouring. Which, while kinda tasty for the first few spoonfuls becomes real old, real fast.
(Ah, if only I could've inherited Dad's skill in the kitchen. Or if only I weren't so lazy and thus prone to halfassed culinary decisions. Ahhh~ *shrugs*)

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...I need to revamp my icons too, but...*INDECISION*

Weeell, am now back from my first 'official' dorm party and am reeking of cigarette smoke like you cannot believe. Twas a party thrown by some people from my cousin's uni and thus she came too, which turned out to be for the best anyhow since I got to hang with her friends instead of nursing my (disgusting) beer and contemplating how to start shouted convos with people.
There was this guy in a kilt though, which was awesome and he gained automatically +10 points for ballllsiness in my opinion.

Shall prolly be more into the whole partying thing come next week when it's the Publizistik-department's turn to show newbies like me around town, so am actually kinda looking forward to that!
Until then it's time to slooowly figure out the confusing art of throwing together my own timetable and making sure that I get to book the right lectures online ...which can be sometimes a matter of 5 secs and a good connection, god. Because who wants to get the friday night at nine pm. lecture slot? URGH... They even have some for sat and sun *shudders* It's all so complicated and such a damn hassle. And this with me ignoring the 'free' electives that I also still have to pick from 4 other different departments :/
I MISS MY SCHOOL TIMETABLE.... DDD:

Otherwise I am swinging between intense urges of wanting to go HOME HOME HOME and not-virulently-hating it here. The fact that I have MY OWN net connection finally does help to tip the scales towards the not-hating, and am all aglee over Due South fic and Camp and the fact that there are House Season 3 eps on YouTube already. AHHHH TEH MAGIC OF TEH INTERWEBS~~~

And thus I quote an actual email from my dad:

"Better make sure you will be able to wake up when you are in Vienna and attend the UNI, or I will shoot you to HELL.

best regards

love, Dad"



...I FEEL ALL WARM AND FUZZY NOW XDDD ...and yeah, first thing on the list when I get to Vienna again is to buy the biggest and baddest alarm clock, as I seem to be suffering from insomnia again. Yay.

~~2 things that have brightened up my existance this past week(or so)~~

1) ...suprisingly, Tennis! And by which I don't mean watching eps of Tenipuri or reading the manga, although I imagine that would be fun too- I'm talking about *gasp* RL Tennis, or more specifically the US Open. Got to watch Federer in the semis against Blake and in the finals versus Roddick and hooooly shit, I have never been more at the edge of my seat watching any type of sports matches before.
Watching Federer play is simply a joy. The man knows his tennis, and oh, some of the shots he played ...So skillful and elegant! Plus when he was matched up against Roddick, who is also a fun player to watch, what with those smashing serves of his ...ahh it was all the more exciting to watch as a spectator~ ♥ ♥
(something I haven’t actively done since the nineties as a wee kid with Sampras and Michael Chang(Asians represent!)...ahh how I used to love tennis)

Bits from the match that amused me:
_ the also very random, yet amusing anecdotes of the german voiceover announcer, and thanks to him I now know that Roddick is, amongst others, a very fast eater and that he was kinda a precocious brat who once signed a bunch of tennis balls when he was six, gave them to a friend and said 'keep these, they'll be worth tons when I'm older'... which is actually quite adorable (...and probably true, too!)
_ the times that Roddick kept changing his shirt- at least three times during a two hour match... I mean, maybe it's normal for some players but it just stood out more compared to Federer just chilling in his seat, wearing his same old shirt (...and leisurely scratching himself as Roddick is already on court waiting for the break to be over XDD)

...long squee short, I personally think that ‘King Roger’ is awesome and a really nice, sympathetic guy who plays mindblowingly good tennis and that he should go on and break all records ever. And the weird thing is, even if I don’t watch his next few matches... just the thought that somewhere out there Roger Federer is kicking major tennis ass makes me happy. Like all is right with the world or something ^^V

Also: There is apparently a Federer beanie baby/Teddy bear, dressed in a blue shirt with a #1 on the back with a headband and a red racket ...and goddammit it is adorable and I waaaantssss it preciousssss DDD:


2) DVDs
When nightfall reaches the Austrian province...and the nightly TV schedule is basically crap warmed over, nothing saves one from boredom more than rewatching one’s entire DVD collection. (Since of course I am somehow incapable to just go to sleep before 3AM noooo)
I also relearned the lesson that watching Brokeback Mountain right before going to bed is also a bad idea, as being huddled in front of my laptop, clutching my stuffed turtle(IKEA is awesome) and sobbing my eyes out ... leads to a very extreme case of puffy eyes the next day and my Oma thinking weird things about what I do in my room. ...but it’s either that or funny stuff and apparently that too is also weird thought-inducing because one can hear my mad cackling when I decide to marathon Scrubs or Samurai Champloo(THE BASEBALL EP AHAHAHA OMG WHUUT XDDD) in the hallway as well....
You just can’t win, I guess :P Wish I had some Everwood eps or Nip/Tuck...such a shiny interesting show, that the german dub didn’t manage to fuck up like it does to House(...*brrr* I believe that like it is the case with Alan Rickman, dubbing Hugh Laurie’s voice should be a crime). And the Ducklings are ‘Sie’zing each other, how stiff is that? Not to mention that the guys dub voices all sound the same. URGH.

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Oh and I WANNA WATCH 'DAS PARFÜM' D: D: D: ...in english though! *curses lack of kino in 60km radius*

AND YAAAY WELCOME BACK TO NET-LAND KAT DEAR ♥ :D :D :D

Haah managed to get some net time now, as on monday I shall be sitting my ass on a train to Wieeeen/Vienna or WIENNA as I tend to typo it these days... There shall be shopping and moving into dorms and hopefully getting all the last uni issues alll worked out~ Which again means that unless I manage to hijack some 'net there I shall be MIA for a week and a half at least. Baah D:

Used my offline time to start a somewhat daily log so that I don't wind up sitting in front of the update journal page with no clue what to type, so here be the last week, Shaz style, copy and pasted from good ol' M Word!
( First there was Mondaaaay... )

Sooo anyways off to go watch some exceeellent *cough* german TV then (DAS EXPERIMENT IS SUCH A MIND FUCK HOLY SHIT awesome german movie whuuut)! Be good y'all~~