Out of sheer curiosity, I went along and watched HHGTTG - the movie.

It's the worst adaptation I've ever seen in my life, it captures nothing of the brilliance of the book, it veers off course so much it's painful, and get this, at the end, they have the nerve to say "for Douglas". God.

Why is it that I never want chocolate when I'm in the supermarket doing my weekly stocking up, but desperately need it at 11 at night? Sheesh...

I... just missed one of my IB classes O_O

You see, I was convinced we were having a tutorial today from 15:45, but apparently that doesn't happen every week, and the lecture, which started today at 10:45, is just about to round itself off in about 30 minutes.... ooooooookay.... I don't really think (read: hope) that there'll be any repercussions (well, you know, last week he mentioned that if we skip it'll be reflected in our grades, but since there weren't any attendance lists I'm pretty sure he meant that in an overall, roundabout way) but the main issue is - this feels Weird! And I feel pretty Stupid. And hey, I don't really have to read those articles now (even though I really should)! And and and this feels WEIRD.

Huh.

Also, the weather's been absolutely miserable the whole day, so I'm actually really glad I didn't got :D

OMG, 7.5 for both exams! (out of 10, but apparently you can't get more than 8 over here... I have no idea why, but what can you do except rant, right?)

And Yes! Results for the second exam too, yay, I can stop worrying, wheeeee~

So I just had my first orange over here/first orange after Summer ended, and HOLY SHIT ASDAGFDAFASSGHAFDGHFSAGHDFAS!! it felt completely like Christmas and New Year, with the tastes and the smells and the cold outside and my not-quiet and not-calm family and the dingy old plastic Tree in my room, and the green curtains and the carpet and the slight cold in my room (because it's always cold there, which is really helpful when Summer comes by again) and HOLY SHIT that hasn't happened in a long, long while.

I've been getting flashes of home lately, actually - my bed is near the window in my dorm room, and the door is at the same angle as compared to the bed and the window (and the table somewhat) from my room back home, and a couple of times, when I heard kitchen door from across the hallway it sounded like the door of my parents' room, and I almost expected my dad to come by and call me out to dinner. Or I'm reading in bed and for a slight second it feels like I'm home. It's disorienting.

I... just finished reading Written by the Victors by Cesperanza, which is basically the main reason why I started watching SGA. I am completely blown away and can't recover. Seriously, my day is completely broken up because how can I do anything with myself after this? It will take me hours to recover. Wow. God. Incredible. I have no words. I can't even start reading/looking at the art/additional.... things... stuff, call them whatever, I can't think right now, the things that were written to go along with it, right now, because

My. Mind. Is. Shot.

How can something like this even exist? I... can't.... even....

You know you're sort of a Trekkie with no hope of redemption when you're reading an article about "The Logic of Intuition" (hardy-har-har) for school, in which, I quote:

"those skilled in the use of intuition tend to have particular decision-making skills not normally possessed by others. Thus managers with good intuition can see new possibilities in any given situation. They have a sense or vision of the future and thus are better equipped to move their organization in response to it. These managers are particularly adept at generating new ideas and providing ingenious new solutions to old problems; usually, they function best in rapidly changing environments or crisis settings."

and you can only think of Jim Kirk (and, more precisely, how badfic can ensue from the fic-writer praising this intuition of his in flowery, poetic ways.)

Hear ye, people! My Strategic Decision Making professor looks like Vetinari! I can so easily imagine him in a robe, it's silly. He's nothing like the man, thank god (oh, it would have been amazing and incredible and I would have worshiped him for ever and ever, for sure, but I need at least one nice-guy teacher this block and I'd rather have it this way) and he has great potential to become my fave prof this block. And I might say more, but I'm afraid of jinxing it :D

- The presents are in the mail, yaaay! Now to hope they reach destination in one piece.
- I'm trying not to think about all the shopping I'll have to do for Christmas, for the whole family. *cough* It'll be fun, right? *wails in despair* I don't know what to get theeeeeeem
- I continue to be really really tired. I give it another day *shakes fist*
- hot showers are the absolute best
- my International Business prof. is a complete idiot *sigh*
- *sings *oh baby it's cold outside. No really, winter's almost here. *shudder* I need to invest in hand cream and something for my lips, pronto
- I'm still gathering energy for the post of posts re: Amsterdam and DIS (the name of the latter still makes me laugh like a geeky idiot)
- still working on the fst (how hard is it to find 2-3 more songs?). Still need to gather energy for finishing the Shura fic, may it rest in peace already
- still need to pick up HHGTG again
- still need to refocus my attention on school, now that it's begun again 
- zacusca! cozonac! dulceata de visine! Cata is my mom's new favourite person, for she has fed me things from home (well, no; but knowing mom, she might be :D)

 

( The weather and the exam ) 

This is what Babel Fish did to an email (in Dutch; they're all in Dutch; bastards yeah, I know I'm wrong, sue me, I like venting) I got from RaboBank, my lovely, orange bank:

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Sniffing to the top of the world, FTW!

I laughed myself to tears, I'm not kidding =DD

Hear ye, hear ye, I have now started to panic (vaguely) due to incoming study deadlines. This is a very good thing, since it means I'll actually start studying in a sustained way. Not good for the poor nerves (why oh why did I feel that need to waste my time a few days ago? It could have gone so great overall) but damn' efficient.

*goes back to studying, for real this time* 

You are the Hanged Man

Self-sacrifice, Sacrifice, Devotion, Bound.

With the Hanged man there is often a sense of fatalism, waiting for something to happen. Or a fear of
loss from a situation, rather than gain.

The Hanged Man is perhaps the most fascinating card in the deck. It reflects the story of Odin who offered himself as a sacrifice in order to gain knowledge. Hanging from the world tree, wounded by a spear, given no bread or mead, he hung for nine days. On the last day, he saw on the ground runes that had fallen from the tree, understood their meaning, and, coming down, scooped them up for his own. All knowledge is to be found in these runes.

The Hanged Man, in similar fashion, is a card about suspension, not life or death. It signifies selflessness, sacrifice and prophecy. You make yourself vulnerable and in doing so, gain illumination. You see the world differently, with almost mystical insights.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

My take on all this? Oooh, shiny and interesting, and also *omgsqueeflail* I remembered American Gods and that amazing chapter, and for that reason, if anything, this got pasted in here. 

Months and months ago (oh god, this was in the beginning of July!), when my lovely Senpai had been bitten by the Kuroshitsuji bug as well, we sat down for some tea on a rainy afternoon (...I think it was rainy) in in the red tinted Rendez-vous to discuss the wonder and vagueness that is the relationship between Sebastian and Ciel, and the various ways in which it can be interpreted. I tried to explain and/or construct on the spot my take on Sebastian, eventually resorting to a cake metaphor - I don't exactly remember the crux of the metaphor, just that it was weird and possibly made no sense at all (and Senpai listened and made sense of it, wheeee~ *glomps Senpai*). The chatting continued, and Senpai explained why "Running up that hill" would be a perfect audio for a Kuroshitsuji mmv, and in the process there was light, and it all made sense, and Sebastian made sense, and the planets aligned themselves wonderfully.

I started the mmv, placed all the panels and matched them to the song, was incredibly proud and excited - and then August happened, I quit my job as planned, got home, started worrying out of my mind about going to The Netherlands for the Master's, and the mmv was abandoned. Until last week, when the mood hit just when I had the time, and lo and behold, now the mmv is complete!

Without further ado:

Title: Displacement
Manga: Kuroshitsuji
Audio: "Running up that hill" by Placebo
Dedication: for Senpai (lemming_land), for she rules and is amazing

Spoilers until chapter 43. Remarks on the mmv below.




( About the mmv )

It's 5:22 am. I just somehow stayed up all night reading This Fic (which is... god, I don't have the words to do it justice. This must be read. By everyone. Now.) Against all plans and odds and scraps of reason. I'll be a wreck tomorrow/today (oooooh boy) (also, keep in mind that I haven't actually started studying, that should have been done all day tomorrow/today, with me fully rested) but I still think it was worth it.

...Sometimes I seriously worry about my priorities...

I'm in my pre-exam session week. What am I doing now, you ask? Watching Stargate Atlantis, of course (I'd say "finally", but the slightly guilt-inducing situation won't let me :D) What is awesome about it, apart from the wonder that is Rodney McKay? They have a Star Trek reference every other episode *squees like a mad fangirl* (Isn't it awesome that I've waited until I got through TOS and the TOS movies before starting with SGA? Now I can not only get all the references, but squee like a mad fangirl (see above) too~). Also, Dr. Beckett's accent is adorable and melt-worthy. I'm so sorry about him :(

Also, the cold is almost entirely gone now. Shortest cold in my medical history :)

I am officially sick right now, common cold and all that. Damn, and things had been going so nicely for a while. (Should prolly have a McCoy-related userpic, since he can almost cure the common cold (trufax), but this one seems more representative (ignore the caption?)) Meh, whatever, I'll prevail. If not, Nat and Masha have promised/threatened to stuff me full of strong medicine on Thursday :D

In other news, I love my Corporate Strategy professor to an Andras 2.0 degree. I mean really, today? He was having slight problems expressing himself (though he was still making sense, of course) and so at one point he goes: "I spent the weekend in France, and after four days my English is gone" What can you do except want to squee and cuddle the man? *shrug* (in case I haven't mentioned this before, he's Swiss, and speaks English with a strange meld between a French and German accent (though for the life of me, I can't hear the German part), and while usually the French accent and pronunciation would make me want to die (and actually did, in the beginning; he's a very special case, in that I grew to fangirl him in time), I simply can't get enough of the way the explains and links concepts - it's uncanny. So, the fact that he pronounces "wholly" as "woolly" (and therefore, wholly owned companies => woolly owned companies, and furthermore, "woolly" makes me think of woolly mammoths, ie Manny the Mammoth from Ice Age) actually makes me smile endearingly and want to cuddle him and bring him tea and/or coffee and the morning paper even more *is a fangirl*)

Right, back home for me now, off to start working on the Microsoft case study - I'm handling it, mwahahahhaha.

== edited to add ==

I LOVE TEA! *heart*