OH MY GOD SOMEONE COME SEE THIS WITH MEEE



Please?

I fail at commenting on my flist and at updating recently, I'm sorry! I've been busy with 50% fun things and 50% failure to function properly at university, lol. My film history class is A+ would enroll again, though my classmates are dumb and respectless (they laughed at every silent film clip that was played, at Busby Berkeley, at FRED FUCKING ASTAIRE, at Leslie Caron... man, I don't even know why they enrolled.)

I also ended up dropping English after all, I figured it might be for the best. I can still take classes from the English department for fun, and that way I'll have fewer worries about passing enough classes a year etc.

Also I FINALLY got my jacket! I thought they were just late sending mine out but apparently they sent all of them out late, since the day after I received mine everyone was suddenly wearing one when I hadn't seen a single one before, lol. Whatever, it's still pretty <3



lol this was disjointed as hell. I may write more later this week but I'm out for now!

So guess who just signed up for a film history course to mitigate the awfulness of a completely Law-filled semester, even though the classes are way earlier in the morning than she can technically handle and she's already pretty busy and oh hey it starts tomorrow?

Damn right. Oops, I guess?

It was necessary, though, since I don't know whether I'll be let back into English, plus my law classes this semester all look to be spectacularly boring. Blargh.

Also tomorrow I have to go see a psychiatrist (it sounds so srs D:) to get my ADD ~diagnosis, so, um. I don't think 'yay' is a fitting way to end that sentence, but idk what else to say, because frankly a diagnosis would be a good thing to have at this point in time.

I... feel like I should say more but frankly I have NO IDEA WHAT. This would be a great moment for me to post some outfit photos from the past few weeks to distract you, but I haven't taken any because I've been either too lazy or in too much of a hurry. Lol this is exactly why I'm not updating, I am apparently using up my whole supply of non-awkward moments irl or something.

ANYWAY HAVE A VIDEO OF VINCENT PRICE BEING HILARIOUS ON "WHAT'S MY LINE" AND ONE OF JOAN BLONDELL KICKING ASS (LITERALLY), because I have to make up for this trainwreck of an entry somehow.






I found out like last week that Joan Blondell was married to DICK POWELL?! Oh my god, say it ain't so. She is one of my biggest '30s ladycrushes, but all Dick Powell does for me... honestly I can't even figure out a way to finish this sentence. THERE IS NOTHING POSITIVE ABOUT DICK POWELL. I guess he sang in key? That's about it. She divorced him later though so 's all good!

Today is weird! I don't know what to make of it. I feel like I'm having a good day when I shouldn't be?

I took what must have been the most stressful (and important) exam resit of my life on about one hour of sleep at 9 am (which ain't such a hot time for me and my lifelong disordered sleeping), and I have noooo idea whether I passed or failed. I was kinda switching back and forth between being focused and ~in the zone~ and completely out of it, sooo idk. I WANT TO KNOW MY RESULTS AND YET I DON'T, so as a compromise I'm going to hope they take the full three weeks to give us our grades back.

On the bright side though the weather was really really wonderful, so I walked most of the way back home. I've been told the weather has been great for a week now, but I wouldn't know lmao. I decided that I deserved comfort food (and I FUCKING DID, omg. Never have I revised as much in one day as I did yesterday. Ten weeks worth of civil law in one day. TEN.), which in a shocking turn of events I COULD ACTUALLY AFFORD. I get my first cheque of the month around the 18th and usually end up with like €10 left to last me at least the entire week before that if not longer, but now I have money left over?! This is literally the first time, lmao. So I stopped off at the supermarket and treated myself to grapes and fresh orange juice and pecan honey pastries. Fuck yes.

AND THEN I CAME HOME AND SWITCHED ON THE TV AND SETTLED DOWN WITH MY AMAZING AS HELL FOOD AND THRILLER STARTED ON MTV RIGHT THEN. lol that made up for a lot, not even gonna lie. It still takes me by surprise every time I see Michael on tv because I'd expected like one day of tributes and then nothing, but they're still playing his videos pretty regularly over here and it makes me




This was like an hour ago, and now half of me is like FUCK YES FREEDOM LET ME GO DO SOMETHING FUN OUTSIDE and the other half of me is like SLEEP. SLEEP AND NEVER WAKE UP. so idk. I'm probably gonna go with sleep, lmao.

Hopefully I'll be awake enough by tomorrow to go visit my dad, because my brother is away on introduction camp with the student society he joined (my bb brother is a UNIVERSITY STUDENT this is making me feel old) and my mum is away doing buddhist things for a week, so my dad is all alonely aw. Also this is the longest I've gone without seeing him since I moved out - not okay! My mum came to visit me last week and my brother crashed at my place a few times during his uni introduction week, so it's really just my dad being ~left out~.

SO APPARENTLY WHEN I DON'T SLEEP ENOUGH I START TO TL;DR ABOUT REAL LIFE STUFF? GOOD TO KNOW!

brb sleeping forever

OH MY GOD

YOU GUYS

CHECK THIS SHIT OUT



SOMEONE MADE A SMOOTH CRIMINAL VIDEO USING CLIPS FROM FRED ASTAIRE FILMS. THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING THINGS I HAVE EVER SEEN. OMG I AM DYING.

I AM SERIOUS, EVERYONE NEEDS TO WATCH THIS. YES YOU TOO BITCH.



Okay caps time over!

In less hysterical news, I think I'm finally ~*ready*~ to start taking regular outfit photos, like I've been meaning to do for uh... pretty much ever. I've done two recently just because I liked new stuff that I got, but if I do them more regularly I feel like I should ask y'all for input: should I post them here at all or will it annoy you guys? Should I put them behind a cut for people who don't give a shit? idk what to do! I don't want to annoy anyone with my face and my unhealthy attachment to my dresses, haha.

Also I got a card from glorious Italy from stoppingpolaris! Awesome. In it she claims that Italy is a 20 minute walk from my house. I am curious as to why she has not yet tested her theory! PERHAPS SHE DOES NOT WISH TO COME VISIT ME. Nonetheless it is an A+ card and I love getting mail, so I am inclined to forgive her.

Okay I really need to get my ass off the computer now (lol not happening). I have an exam in a couple of days that has me freaking out and procrastinating like crazy, so please someone tell me to gtfo the internet and start studying! D:

See that right there? That is why I love summer. Well also the warm weather and the sunlight and the holidays and all, but mostly I really really really love summer fruit. NOM NOM NOM

So anyway, I was initially going to write an enormous long distraught post about how I must be an insane person because I had somehow managed to completly vanish my only hairbrush, in a room that's not even 20 square meters nor particularly full of storage units, but then it turned out that I was not insane after all and one of my housemates had snuck into my room when I was out and borrowed it. Once more I turn out to be less weird than I thought! (Seriously though, I am chaotic and disorganised in every other way imaginable, but I NEVER lose stuff. I was distraught. IT TOTALLY MERITED A POST OKAY.)

I concede, though, that there is also stuff going on that might be slightly more interesting than a lost hairbrush: my brother gets his final exam results tomorrow! I'm pretty convinced that he's passed and will thus be graduating high school in two weeks (fna'sdlg augh how is my baby brother suddenly this oooold!), but it's still one of those nervous moments that has the entire family on edge, because they're his final exam results and HE IS ALL GROWED UP. :'( The good news, though, is that he'll be going to Leiden for his university studies just like me, so I will be able to occasionally knock on his door and sternly inquire if he's had anything to eat besides pizza in the past month.

Also, I uploaded a bunch of music for jahrhundert and I figured some of you guys might be interested too! They're all songs by Kurt Weill, many of which I may have posted before at some point, but since I love them an unreasonable amount and Kurt Weill is amazing and also my hero, I am posting them again anyway and you will just have to deal. They are all sung by Lotte Lenya because she is the only one who gets to sing Kurt Weill songs in my opinion. Also I want to be her when I grow up, and I'm only okay with not marrying her because a) she is dead and b) she and Kurt Weill were married and it was adorable and they are my historical OTP forever.


LOOK AT THESE AWESOME BITCHES, YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO BE THEM.

So yes, the songs:

Threepenny Opera
Die Moritat von Mackie Messer
Barbara-Song
Seeräuber-Jenny

Happy End
Introduction (Hosiannah)
Bilbao-Song
Matrosen-Tango
Der Song von Mandelay
Das Lied von der harten Nuss
Die Ballade von der Höllenlili

I hope some of you will take (and hopefully also like) them so I can feel like I am doing right by my OTP :') And also seriously, if you do not like Lotte Lenya I may have to stop considering you a person. BEST LADY EVER.

Hokay, back to my cherries and civil law summaries I go!

Holy shit, you guys, I have actually not posted for an ENTIRE MONTH. That's pretty shocking! I'm still working on putting together my lady art picspam post and having it be less than five kabillion pictures, but someday it will be posted, I promise. Also coming hopefully soon: pictures of my new room! I kind of like it a lot, but every time I try to take pictures, all of the clouds in the world gather above the house as if on cue so I can't take a single decent photo. Fie! It'll happen though, hopefully also soon.

In the meantime, have a music video I like! It is by a Swedish band called MOVITS! who play swing music and rap over it, in Swedish. I promise you that even if you already think this sounds awesome, it is actually way more awesome than you think. Also the video is A+! Essentially... I want to marry this song and live in this video.



Aaaand secondly I hope you are all familiar with the cutest blog in world history, entitled My Milk Toof, but just in case you are not... well, there's the link. It is a photo blog about the adventures of two little milk teeth called Ickle and Lardee, who take care of plants and are afraid to take baths and oh my god it is so adorable I cannot even explain it to you. Have some pictures from it instead:











FOR REAL HOW ADORABLE IS THIS SDLKGDSJSDGH
And that's not even including the stories I took these pictures from. I am DYING of cuteness.

Aaaand finally, jahrhundert just sent me an (awesome) essay she wrote, in which she actually acknowledged me for all the useless fangirl squeeing I have been doing about Asta Nielsen! Who knew my online nerdiness would one day lead to my being acknowledged in an essay (if only because jahrhundert is sweet enough to acknowledge me for saying useless things ♥)! Soooo yes, this just made my day! \o/

Hokay back to studying I go! Blarg exams D:

FLDA;SGLJASHDFA HOLY CRAP YOU GUYS

I ALREADY KNEW I'D PASSED MY ROMAN LAW EXAM

BUT GUESS WHAT


TURNS OUT THAT I PASSED IT IN A WAY WHERE I SCORED A 9/10.

A;'XFG;SDFSHGADG HOLY CRAP. IF YOU NEED ME I'LL BE OVER HERE. ON THE FLOOR. DEAD.

OH ALSO I BOUGHT THE MOST BEAUTIFUL COAT IN THE WORLD, AGAINST MY BETTER JUDGMENT BECAUSE I HAVE SPENT TOO MUCH RECENTLY ALREADY:



LOL I BOUGHT IT YESTERDAY AND THEN WENT TO BED AND DREAMED THAT I HAD LIKE €5 LEFT ON MY BANK ACCOUNT. LOL SUBCONSCIOUS I'LL GET THERE SOON DON'T WORRY

BUT YES BASICALLY MY LIFE WINS RIGHT NOW :D :D :D

Holy crap my life kind of rocks?!

+ I PASSED MY FUCKING ROMAN LAW EXAM SO HARD, HOLY SHIT. They posted the answer sheet online today and I only got 4/30 multiple choice questions wrong, and the open question right as well. Holy craaaap.

+ I bought pretty dresses on Asos!



Also I only have to pay half of the shipping costs because I'm ordering together with Renée \o/ Having a housemate who digs Asos as much as I do is KIND OF BRILLIANT.

I also wanted to buy this dress on clearance:



But then someone snatched the last one up right before I wanted to put it in my basket! AND NOW SOMEONE RETURNED ONE SO I CAN STILL BUY IT, but I'm not sure I should? Is it nice enough, internet?

+ Renée and I are working on making our living room prettier, which is fun. Our first poster arrived today:



Cutest ever? IT MIGHT BE.

+ I just found out that there's going to be a showing of a silent Lubitsch film with Pola Negri in my hometown on Monday! I AM SO THERE, holy crap.

I think I was going to scream more, but I'm off to a lecture type thing about Polanski in a minute so this will be all for now. But um yes, basically good times are upon me it seems!

Today is my little brother's birthday!! Well ok technically it was yesterday as of 1 hour and 42 minutes, but whatever, we can roll with it I am sure. He is now 19!! I AM A LITTLE CONFUSED. It seems to me that I should be the one who is 19, but ~time flies~ and all of that nonsense. Anyway yes, happy birthday little brother who does not read my LJ!


Ilu baby brother, even though you always flash the same fake smile in pictures. <3

Actually, looking for this photo of us reminded me of the A Day In My Life post it came from, which made me realise that today being my brother's birthday also means that this is the anniversary of my first ever ADIML! Which, uh, was also the second to last one I did because I did two in March of last year and then forgot about the whole thing, hahaha. Maybe I should do one again sometime soon, they were fun to do.

Anyway yes, my point is that it is my little brother's birthday and that he is awesome. And that I am visiting home! Which is a very weird concept in and of itself, but I am dealing with it.

Okay back to studying, EXAM ON MONDAY BRAIN IS FRIED OH GOD WHY

Omg guys I am living in Leiden! This is really awesome. Also a little weird, but mostly awesome. The most daunting thing is cooking (because I... can't), which I haven't attempted yet because I had class from 7-9 pm yesterday and so settled for bread, but tonight may be the night where I set the house on fire. Exciting!

Also today I got my first mail at my new address! It was a very serious contender for Most Appropriate Postcard Ever Received By Me, from my parents and brother - this one, to be exact:




Awesome!

Err I am out of interesting things to say already it would seem! This is mostly due to the fact that all I am doing lately and all I will be doing until the 9th of March is working REALLY FUCKING HARD so as to not fail the most important resit of my life - if I fail this one the law faculty will kick me out because you have to have passed all your first year classes by the end of your second year. Which, you know, sounds reasonable and all. Unfortunately though, this particular course I haven't passed yet is the biggest bitch in the ENTIRE UNIVERSE, and I say this as someone who normally doesn't even have to study to pass her exams. I've failed this one twice now. I am so nervous, it's insane D:

Okay back to studying I go!



...in my new house FUCK YEAH

I feel like I haven't properly updated in forever! Possibly this is true, I don't really remember because my brain is kind of shuffled at the moment, ha. Anyway yes, have a list-type breakdown of the things I haven't updated about yet!

Positive happenings:
+ I GOT MY ROOM KEY HELL YES. Still no contract, but I've been assured that will also arrive at some point haha.
+ a_suitcase is amazing and she made me a welcome package!! Omg you guys it has MIDSOMER MURDERS DVDS. And recipes! (This is good because I can't even cook potatoes, no lie.) Also tea and Lush soap and assorted lovely foodstuffs and an ADORABLE CARD and omg. Basically my point is: a_suitcase wins the prize for SWEETEST HOUSEMATE EVER.
+ I got my boots and they fit! American sizing is a strange and terrible thing which I will never understand, so this is a relief.
+ I met up with a friend from England today who was in Amsterdam in between flights (to Dubai of all places, wut da hale) which was fun!
+ Also: LOOK WHAT I FOUND IN AMSTERDAM FOR A TENNER:



UM HELL YES. First off, LOOK AT THOSE TITLES HAAA and secondly THAT IS €0,50 PER FILM, WAT. Also included are titles like Sex Madness (1938), She Shoulda' Said No! (1949)... well, you get the point. And also, oddly, Die Freudlose Gasse (yes, the one by Pabst with my bb Asta!). It's like... 19 sleazy exploitation/delinquency scare films and... a social commentary by Pabst? Lol.

Sadly less pleasant things also happened:
- Our entire house is being repainted/recarpeted/re-other-thinged on the inside, which means that from 8 am - 4 pm we have a bunch of painters stumbling around, making TONS of noise and getting dust everyfuckingwhere. You can't touch anything without white dust smears appearing on your hands or clothes and also did I mention how all the old locks in our house are being replaced so that I can't comfortably shower or pee between 8 am - 4 pm because there are four strange men in my house AND NO LOCKS ON THE BATHROOM DOORS?
- Side-effect of the painters making enough noise to wake the dead, starting at 8 am? Yeah, I apparently taught myself to sleep through that. And since they make more noise than my alarm clock, GUESS WHAT I ALSO DON'T HEAR IN THE MORNING. I haven't been able to wake up in time for a single class since the painters got here D:
- Also due to all the construction happening on my ceiling I am not sleeping in my own room, but all my stuff is still in there, only covered in plastic sheets and taped off and completely impossible for me to reach. IN A SITUATION IN WHICH I AM BUSY TRYING TO MOVE OUT, THIS IS NOT VERY PRACTICAL.
- The Asta Nielsen program is over :( :( I mean my wallet needed a break and all (or what's left of it more like; I have like €10 left in the bank oh lawd) but I WANT MORE ASTA! Whatever, this totally counts as sad.
- The Dutch postal system has decided to start charging €12,50 for every parcel received from outside of the European Union as of January this year, without any kind of prior warning or whatever, and to also a) lower the value a package from outside the EU is allowed to have without the addressee paying import tax, from €40 to like €25 or some shit, AND b) make the shipping costs the addressee paid count towards the value of the package. Because of all this bullshit, I not only paid €12,50, but €10 in import taxes on top of that, for a pair of boots which only cost me €20, purely because the shipping fee was high. So BASICALLY what I am trying to communicate here is that the higher echelons of the Dutch postal system are comprised largely if not entirely of motherfuckers. Now plz excuse me while I choke a bitch because they made me pay more to receive my boots than the boots themselves actually fucking cost, and all this ENTIRELY without warning. Ughghghghh.
- I have a really fucking important resit on March 9 and I don't know where I'm going to find the time to study rasjdg;asdlgkj
- Last but not least: I just managed to deposit a scaldingly hot cup of tea in my lap, half on my leg (ow ow ow) and half on my previously-white dress. I hope the stains come out D:

Okaaaay I am done being a debbie downer! Awesome! Tomorrow I am going to meet up with a friend to discuss our summer holiday plans and Friday is my parents' anniversary and Saturday I'm going to pick out paint for my room with a_suitcase, so my life is pretty good!

Hahaaa this is going to be the most boring entry in the history of my LJ (and that is saying something)! You guys had better skip this or something.

Sooo I'm really tired right now, actually-for-real-falling-asleep-on-my-keyboard tired, and it's only 9:30 pm?? COME ON NOW SELF! I guess it's cause I had to get up early to take a stupid exam. Facts: tiredness sucks and so do exams.

What's also funny is that the ceiling in my room is literally at risk of coming down, all of it, at any given moment, as diagnosed by... some guy who knows about these things. I don't know what you call them in English, whatever. I've been telling my parents for, oh, a year? about the huge crack in my ceiling which has slowly been turning into more of an upside-down canyon type deal, but they didn't listen until the whole thing was apparently SET TO COLLAPSE and now I have been banned from my room for ~4 weeks and will be sleeping in our tiny tiny jam-packed-with-crap spare bedroom. This is especially fun because I HAVE EXAMS THIS WEEK AND NEXT and my CEILING IS COLLAPSING??? I don't even know. I'm just pissy that I can't sleep in my own bed anymore and that I have to clear out my entire room for the people who are going to fix this, even though I don't have the time, much less the energy to empty my whole wardrobe and bookcase and take apart my bed and shit because hi, EXAMS?

Luckily for me I have also discovered Bollywood films like... two days ago, and they are doing a pretty good job of cheering me up with weird dance sequences and glitter and really groovy songs. If any of you are knowledgeable about Bollywood films (or at least more knowledgeable than I am, which... you basically are if you know more than three films), plz hit me up with some recs or I may have to stop procrastinating!

I would post a cute B'wood cap to make this post less awful or something, but I'm too lazy. Have something that's already on my photobucket instead, namely CLARK GABLE WITH MOTHERFUCKING PUPPIES.



For reals, if this image does not make up for this mess of a post then idk what will. LOOK AT IT IT IS CLARK GABLE WITH MOTHERFUCKING PUPPIES.

Now if you'll excuse me I will go study some more and/or die. Pls remember me fondly.

Hi internet! Just checking in to mention that I am not in fact dead. Um. I've been dealing with random bouts of "LOL YOUR SCHEDULE MAKES TOO MUCH SENSE, WE'LL FIX THAT FOR YOU" courtesy of the law faculty, studying, generally flailing about all the things I should be doing but have no time for and trying to maintain a social life. It, uh, has actually been a little more difficult than it may sound. This is probably due to the fact that last year's schedule allowed me to sleep until at least noon, and now suddenly I have to be up at eight every morning even though I am incapable of falling asleep before 3 AM. My body is not taking this very well, so I'm constantly feeling either hyper or ready to collapse, and my hair keeps getting greasy WAY before it should. Also I'm always either way too warm or freezing. lol, menopausal.

BUT:
# I saw The World/Inferno Friendship Society two weeks ago, and holy crap do I want to marry them and have their children. Even though they would be drug babies. I DO NOT CARE, ILU W/IFS. Photos I most definitely did not take (I was too busy dancing) to follow when I have calmed the fuck down and found some spare time!
# I saw Factory Girl (which.. ahahahaha oh my god why) with electricwitch, who I also met up with yesterday to eat leopard print cake (YES IT EXISTS, and it was glorious) in honour of Marc Bolan's death day.
# I finally got to see the new first years who joined my student society this year!
# This happened by way of an event called the DKKT (which stands for something like "dispute room pub crawl"), in which groups of first years visit all the disputes over the course of two evenings, each dispute being stationed in the room of one of their members. The first years get to spend half an hour with every dispute, getting free drinks, figuring out what the dispute stands for and getting to know its members (and vice versa). So basically I got drunk with my dispute mates AND got to meet the new kids AND didn't have to budge, so this was good.
# I just got back from post-DKKT lunch with two dispute mates, which was SO GOOD, if a bit on the expensive side for someone who has told herself repeatedly to stop spending money. Whatever, I NEEDED THAT LUNCH.
# I've been procrastinating (though far less than usual!) by watching lots of pre-code films and er, Midsomer Murders still.

Er, probably I have done more than that but I can't really remember right now D: it's 5:45 PM and I'm pretty much ready to go to bed, haha. Oh body, why?

Soo uni has started again, and in a shocking turn of events, my class schedule actually makes some semblance of sense. Considering how many last-minute freakouts I've had in the past few days over a million kinds of scheduling oversights on my part, this is nothing short of a miracle. A small selection of reasons I should never be forced to work out my own schedule again: the day before the start of classes, I realised I'd forgotten to incorporate any lectures into my schedule, signed up for a workgroup at the wrong time and failed to sign up for another class I should be taking, all the while dealing with the fact that our University doesn't really do internet very well (EVERYTHING IS ALWAYS DOWN, WHAT THE HELL). Oh, self.

Anyway, English is looking pretty exciting, my classmates seem nice and the classes sound fun. This is also good, because I am also having to deal with something called Legal and Business Economics this semester and I really rather wish I could just hide under my bed until it's all over, because there is no cup of tea in the world that is less mine. The textbook does contain this gem, though (er, translated for your benefit obvs) :

"A person with intransitive preferences would be a scatterbrain, unable to come to any decisions. The fact that it is assumed in economics that individuals have transitive preferences implies that economics are not about scatterbrains."

GTFO OF MY ECONOMICS YOU SCATTERBRAINS!!!

Sadly, I think this quote will remain the only thing about this class to not make me hate the world.

Also, I will never, ever attempt to buy textbooks for both my majors again while my bike is in repairs, because holy crap. I lugged three full bags of books around Leiden yesterday (and I will have to go back for a whole bunch more still, I stopped buying when I.. couldn't carry any more) and while I'm sure it was good exercise or something, my arms are not loving me right now. Oh, fun fact: it was also PISSING DOWN WITH RAIN. Let it be clear that I am not cut out for efficient decision-making.

Hokay, back to my stupid textbook (not for scatterbrains!! I can't help but feel a little slighted, ahaha.)

Hai guys! As of now, I am back from France, where I did not do anything apart from reading on the patio, swimming in our pool and in the above-pictured lake (which was massive and even bluer irl), watching Midsomer Murders (weird and inexplicable crush on DCI Barnaby is weird and inexplicable, wtf self?) and eating a lot. GREAT SUCCESS!

Good things about today:
# Did not die in car crash.
# Did not spend as much time in traffic jams as expected.

Tragic things about today:
# Got up at 5:30 AM.
# Spent 13 hours in car with very funny ideas about how air conditioning should function, i.e. alternating between FUCKING FREEZING YOU TO DEATH or not doing anything to stop the 5 million degree heat outside from getting in and BOILING YOU TO DEATH.
# 13. HOURS.
# Am no longer in France D':
# Had to abandon plans of seeing Louis XIV with electricwitch because am FALLING ASLEEP AS WE SPEAK. 5:30 AM holy god.

Anyway, uh, more coherent posts will follow when I have recovered from my current state of DEATH BY CAR. Also when I have acquired approx. five million textbooks I still haven't looked into buying even though classes start this week? Halp D:

Ughh, sorry guys, I have a whole slew of things I want to post about that are actually interesting, but for now I just want to get this off my chest:

MY STOMACH FEELS LIKE AN ALIEN IS EATING ITS WAY OUT OF IT. OR POSSIBLY PRACTISING ITS DECORATIVE KNOTTING TECHNIQUES ON MY INSIDES, I CAN'T REALLY TELL. BUT UH, PAIN.

ALSO SINCE IT IS 4AM NOW MY CIVIL LAW EXAM RESIT IS TECHNICALLY TOMORROW, AND UH, I HAVE NOT DONE ANYTHING. AND DID I MENTION THAT I MY STOMACH FEELS LIKE IT IS BEING EATEN? BECAUSE IT DOES.

Ugh I just want to go read smut or watch a film or something to distract me, but I get these STABBING PAINS that make me have to stop breathing for a bit and that kind of mars my enjoyment of, uh, everything in the world. I guess I'll go lie in bed and pretend like falling asleep is an attainable goal?

OK END OF WHINY POST. Fun stuff after Monday because I will be DONE WITH MY RESIT, hell yes.

Soo, there's this band I love called The World/Inferno Friendship Society, whom I love because a) I dig their music (lol yes rly), b) they wear awesome suits, and c), uh, they have written an entire album about Peter Lorre. No, for real.

And now, apparently, they have taken that album and constructed a multi-media theatre performance-slash-punkrock opera around it, with texts inspired by Bertolt Brecht.

And they are totally performing over here in less than a month.

Sooo basically? THIS IS ME EXPLODING.


And because if I'm going to explode I like to at least do it in a vaguely useful way, have some of their music!

# Peter Lorre Overture - the first song on the album, as you might've guessed. First part of the song is orchestral, in the second part the World/Inferno Friendship Society wonders where Peter Lorre's money went.
# Ich Erinnere Mich An Die Weimarer Republik - I LOVE THIS SONG SO MUCH. It is insanely groovy and danceable and it references the Threepenny Opera! And "Cabaret"! If you only download one song, it should be this one.
# "M" is for Morphine - This one starts out kind of.. ominous? but is actually also quite groovy.
# Addicted to Bad Ideas - The title track! Which, uh, I also like. Idk what to say about this one besides that! Clearly I would make a great PR person.
# Heart Attack '64 - lol this one is so hokey yet SO CUTE! It is so cute that when they sing a line like "but the dope and the girls and the wine, oh hell they were so fine," I'm still going "AAAWW PETER SO CUTE!!!"

So, yes. I think you should download these and hopefully also dig them!

Aaaand that's enough of my music and Peter Lorre-induced brand of crazy for today, I think. Back to studying for my civil law re-exam next Monday, hell yes!

Oh noooooooo I have to schedule all my Law classes tomorrow morning at 9:00 am, on the internets! This is problematic because:

a) I need to schedule around my English timetable, which is a fixed schedule.
b) I do not actually know when my English classes are, because I do not yet know which lecture/work group I'm in, and the schedule online looks something like this:

Monday
10-11 Lecture Middle English
11-12 Workgroup Middle English, group A
11-12 Workgroup Middle English, group C
12-1 Workgroup Middle English, group E
1-2 Workgroup Middle English, group D
2-3 Workgroup Middle English, group B
3-4 Workgroup Middle English, group F
4-5 Workgroup Middle English, group G

And so it continues ALL WEEK. Except for Fridays which are free.

So, basically, until I know which group I am in, 90% of my schedulable (lol is that a word?) time is tied up with English classes I might be in and as such cannot be used to schedule any law classes.

By some miracle, I have discovered that all my law classes that have mandatory attendance (uh, that's all of them) CAN technically be scheduled around ALL of my possible English classes by putting them all on Monday afternoon and Friday, but that would mean I don't get Fridays off (kri) and also.. that the moment I actually get a group assigned for English, my schedule will turn out to suck and have five million gaping holes in it. AH WELL I guess I will have to do that, because currently I haven't got much hope that I will find out what group I might be in before tomorrow morning at 9, which is when signups for law classes start.

Lol I love freaking out and playing at being grand master of scheduling while on holiday. OH THE JOY OF TAKING ON TWO FULL-TIME BACHELORS, I AM ALREADY FEELING IT

Then again my law classes for this year REALLY SUCK (business economics?! I don't even want to know what that entails halp), so I am going to need nerdy classes about literature to pull me through probably. fsdhgjdg

Oh PS obviously I have made it to Berlin safely. I have no idea why, but being in moving cars has been an increasing source of freakout for me over the past year to the point where now, every other car on the road strikes me as a HUGE THREAT and every little swerve means we are going to die. I've never had this before, what is wrong with me??

So I have decided that I am finally ready to own a pair of trousers. (No, seriously, I haven't got any.) I've even decided on a pair I like! Apparently our love is not meant to be, though, since they have been out of stock in my size for like a week now. >:( Also I am having fits because I can't even tell for certain whether they are, you know, nice trousers. I've gone without trousers for so long that the whole idea of me wearing them is already so weird that I can't for the life of me figure out how to tell whether they make me look ~dashing~ or more like the boring secretary who never gets a raise. I seriously just.. lack a frame of reference. My life: a study in tragedy!

However, I've decided that if I'm going to be wearing trousers, I want to look either like an awesome 1930s lady (wide trousers are wide) or like an awesome 1930s lady who stole her man's clothes. Because, uh, because. I don't want to buy jeans so this is my excuse? And also I can't stand the idea of not dressing up. Picspam of trousers/outfits that would only look good on me in my dreams possibly forthcoming.

Anyway, so much for my trouser-related woes. In cheerier news: I scored a 7/10 on my Criminology exam! This happened on approx. 80 minutes of actual revision on my part, so I'm currently trying to stop thinking things like "AH-HA I AM TOO SMART TO HAVE TO STUDY" and start thinking more along the lines of "but my grades could be even more awesome if I stopped being a twat and actually applied myself!". It is not working. I hope it starts working soon, because otherwise combining 2 full-time Bachelor studies next year will probably be the death of me. D:

Noooooo we're out of the running! Well damn. Russians played well though, tbh.

Anyway, I am done with my exams! This is pretty awesome. I was going to make a srsly festive post about it today but then I came down with an enormous headache so I didn't. Also I think I kinda hardcore failed yesterday's exam, but ah well.

Finally got a chance to see my nan again yesterday, after my exam. She'd been traveling for a month and then when she got back I had my exams, so I'd missed her a lot! I brought a bunch of films with me that she could choose from, we ended up watching M and Pleasantville (shut up okay I like it!) Srsly, I already liked M a lot but it was 100x better without my dad next to me going "JESUS CHRIST IS THIS EVER GOING TO END I WANT TO GO TO BED FFS."

Eerm end of disjointed post I think? I should probably grab an aspirin and go to sleep or something, lol.

ETA: No actually, I have to add this:

SUMMER HOLIDAYS FUCK YES!

Because I keep forgetting that "done with exams" actually means "summer holidays" this time. Lol self.