date: 1105261927

mood: part nostalgic, part wine-happy, part relaxed, part enlightened
listening to:…my shining satellite… (the scarf song, played on radio!)

date: 1098752960

mood:
listening to:

it is 3 am.
i helped julien with his paper. he helped me with mine. i had a cup of tea and unpacked, brushed my teeth and settled in my bed to read some /. articles i had saved for reading.

accidentally clicking a link i find out that

i somehow have internet from my bed

i am not breathing. i pray this stays.

date: 1095176962

mood: horrible headache
listening to:

allright, time to write the blog.

first off, i have a killer headache, and i didn’t have time from last night to write anything. soo, this might be a bit convulated.

okay, so we left off on sunday evening.

monday morning, i woke up around 11, made toaste with milk and the last egg left, for myself and simon (who donated the egg and some bread). drank tea, ate that, then went shopping to the cheaper supermarket with simon and mirjam.
bought:
milk, juice (some new kind), SOURCREAMYAYFORCOOKING, apricot jam, eggs, bread (shared price and content 50-50 with mirjam), 2 packs of spaghetti (it was 15 cents, and its not like it’ll be a problem to have spaghetti twice over the next 4 months :) ), TOMATOES (YAY). i think that’s it.

anyway, after coming back, i did some reading, and just plain time wasting (tv, chatting, stealing other people’s chicken nuggets – not that they were good, mind you). then i went to univ, around 3 (an hour later than i thought). checked prices for hostels in amsterdam.

next weekend i’m going to amsterdam, with simon, thomas, and jerome. mirjam and her friend possibly will join us as well (likely). francesca can’t go, so can’t other people, but we’ll see, its not like we’re setting the plans in stone.

after that checked emails, quickly replied to some, ran to class. had 2 hour class of social psych – god, i love that class, so much fun. then an hour break, then 2 hour class of chinese.

maan, the prof is funnie.

we learned how to pronounce the 4 basic vowel sounds in mandarin, and how to draw some basic characters. one of the characters is horse (pictured on the left). he was walking around the class, looking over the shoulder and telling us what was wrong:

“that’s a might thin horse you’ve got there, olya”

at the end of the class, i asked him something:

“shut up olya or you have to write nin hao 1000 times!” and then he smiles. he seriously didn’t sound like he meant it in a bad way, more like a joke. but the rest of us just went and looked at eachother like, “WTH”.

also. he shows us how to write some character. difficult.

from the classroom: “oh god…”

him: “nono, not god. just me. who am i? i am teacher. got it? yes. good.”

at this point i just looked across the room and found someone else giving me the same “caught in the headlight sof a car” look. seriously. funny, but.. yeah. he is also very unorganized, but its still fun.

what i learned: nin hao (hello, polite version, pictured on the right), ni hao (normal version). other stuff. i have like 33 characters to memorize for next week. but it sounds sooooooo weird to hear myself speaking chinese! because, the prounciation is so distinctive, that its just… instantly recognizable as chinese. fun!

after that i biked home. it was dark, cold, 9pm, and it was raining. needless to say i think i caught a mild cold from that.

the rest of the evening was shitty. i had a rotten mood, i felt sick, and life just sucked (as it does sometimes). some people went out, i stayed in, did some of the reading for tuesday’s class (philosophy).

went to sleep at 2.

tuesday, woke up at 8, ate musli with milk, made a cup of green tea, studied more philosophy (i didnt finish the reading the night before). at 10:20, i finished reading, biked to school, sat online for a bit, just relaxing, then i had my lecture at 11.

tried to not fall asleep. the classrooms are tiny, 5 people today were in class, we are all sitting around the table, and i want to sleep. it really, really, suck. diny, i took a photo of the room for you, i’ll upload later.

more photos

there. its not mine, just uploaded from thomas’ camera last night, but still, fun for you to see.

uhm… after class (ended at 3:30), i wasted time (YAY FOR RELAX AND TIME WASTE) online until 5:20, when i decided i need to do the blog. so, here i am, 5:40, i’m done.

next: check if anyone replied to my emails, if not, go home. rest, eat, relax. no classes tomorrow, w00t!

date: 1094487880

mood: thrilled
listening to:italian

i’m sitting in a stone laid courtyard, with 3 floors, surrounded by brick walls. a pigeon just flew over me, j ust like in americans movies about europe. there’s grapewine on the wall behind me (i’m kidding you not), and huge doors to the right of me (like, 6 meter tall), with huge glass. the brick is peeling and its red, and the grapewine is spilling onto the ground. however, i’m sitting here, and i have wireless internet from my laptop!

life is just awesome. i just had my first real class, social psych.

we will have no lectures.

i repeat, there will not be a single lecture during this class. i will have 12 or so tutorial meetings, where we sit around a desk (10 people, and the PROFESSOR too), and we all just chat about a problem that is posed for that day’s class. then we come up with further detailed questions about the problem (it is called learning goals), and we research for the next class.

my schedule is different from week to week. this week i have no classes on wednesday, and i will have an 8:30 class on thursday.

everyone in the guesthouse speaks poor english. i have became a teacher to everyone on our floor.

my floor is now full, and it has the following people:

myself
francesca: italian girl, became an awesome friend
french guy whos name i dont remember
jerome, another french guy
spanish girl
estonian girl
girl from kosovo

okay, 3 italian girls (2 of them i know, not from our building, but friends of francesca), are standing in front of me talking really fast italian. aah, it is awesome, they talk with such expression, and they are discussing classes with SUCH emotion and SUCH hand gestures!

okay, back to list.

julien, french guy
switzerland guy
dutch guy
ireland guy

i THINK that’s it. obviously im having a hard time with names, but i’ll get the hang of it.

on thursday – sunday i went to paris, where i have spent a most fantastic 4 days. (more like 3 with the travel). i met skoey, AKA luke, who was absolutely awesome, and helped me get around and not die of starvation by speaking french whenever i got lost in their nouns. i speak french far better than a week ago, i keep practising both on our floor, as well as i did in paris (sometimes, he speaks excellent english).

i’ve seen the eiffel tower, champs d’elysees, arc de triumph, orsay, louvre (i liked orsay more, but i was lucky, i went to louvre at 9am on friday morning, it was absolutely empty!)

anyway, paris is a seperate story, i will post a bit later, in a seperate entry.

i’m going to run email stuff to people. to be honest, i miss individual people, and i miss my dog, but life became so much more exciting and … different, that i’m all in the experience right now. i dont think i have had such fun/time concentration ever before in my life.

until tomorrow cause i FINALLY have internet from laptop! wooo!

tell me what you wanna hear/see here.

date: 1089630032

mood: exceedingly pleased with the proposal
listening to:book: pride and prejudice chapter 47

sorry for not updating.
my days are spent working, and accordingly, relaxing after work.

the last hugest event on which i absolutely must write up a blog entry on is my going to colorado, however every time i’m home i don’t touch the computer as i’m too tired of it from work.

well a slight exaguration but still… too tired.

i have 5 gigs of photographs from that trip. some of them *gasp* not horrible. i still didn’t do anything with them! not even sorting. blah!!

http://www.neimanmar…ml?item=prod14510116
http://www.neimanmar…splayImage=alternate

date: 1084262793

mood: grand. http://www.striffler.com/images/p3d_12-03a-web.jpg
listening to:kosheen – blue eyed boy

i’m fixated on the song kosheen – blue eyed boy. can’t stop listening to the first 2 minutes of it. and then i rewind and repeat.

i lost wallet with all my money in it. no id. ~30$. i was saving money to buy stuff.

today i went shopping for an interview shirt.

interview got cancelled.

couldn’t buy non interview stuff since i lost wallet.

i’m so happy. i mean… small things. don’t matter. this bugged me greately about 12 hours ago. but now it doesn’t matter… i’m content.

*rewinds song agian*

i’m typing this and going to sleep. analyzing life is a tired task.

my mouse scroll wheel started working. it went all weird for a minute and opened a shitload of windows from a current page and then it started working again. it wasn’t working for like 2 days.

my favourites bar is functioning

i am going to sleep soon. did i say that? yeah, i did.

i started typing an apology to the many people who i could’ve hurt in the short amt of time i spent on the computer. but you know, i don’t mean harm.

whoa, today (i just realized) i tried to help 2 people and i think i ended up making life worse for both of them. i guess i shouldn’t meddle in whats not mine…

damn this song is addictive.

i’m finally going to go to my bed. no crawly thingies tonight.

date: 1082230175

mood: distraught, agitated
listening to:bryan adams, mel c – when you’re gone

see my new glasses here

alright. so i was studying for a few hours (amazingly i could concentrate). whoa, 2.5 hours come to check it out.

i come back, comments on glasses:
“EMO++”

i go to google and now i feel i am an unwilling part of a community. called emo. looking over things that symbolize emo… i have the glasses, and maybe (okay, fine, usually) i am an emotional person over everything. however i don’t match on any other level! geez, i don’t listen to that music, which is a #1 thing i suppose.

but now i feel like i have to …represent. its like, this is an elite club that i have just became a part of by getting these glasses.

but then i’m scared of becoming a stereotype. i want to be a blonde blonde blonde. i guess more pink for me. coming soon to an olya near you

date: 1080600598

mood: energized
listening to:tchaikovsky – swan lake – ballet suite

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that would be my noted pad. i vacuumed the keyboard. no keys lost but the metal bracket from under the space bar is gone – whooosh! i need to find an old useless keyboard and steal it’s bar.

to be honest i had much more extensive plans for tonight than “just” … 2 hours of cleaning. but i got carried away. i read that when people clean 75% of surfaces go uncleaned. so i vacuumed every surface, horizontal vertical and (well therewere almost no) diagonal ones.

windexed the floor, and all surfaces and dusted, finally hung hesi’s picture that she gave me on new years near the desk and also hung the other metal board to the right of old one.

so much stuff done! and open door to outside, loads of fresh air and tchaikovsky blasting. yay!

now i’m going to get cookies and finish my linguistics assignment! yeah!

date: 1078974846

mood: i love $user!
listening to:danceish – this is the time

this is so frigging interesting.

http://www.dcs.qmw.a…hms/merge+quick.html

saddest part is that … well, its not like i want to learn, i just like to read. blah, it just feels wrong.

paste me interesting links! and no links to like … movies. like, ads.

pictures are teh good.

date: 1076229175

mood: content
listening to:u96 – love sees no color

i had such a nice day.i slept until i woke up by myself. i cleaned a little. i did nothing a little. i figured out part one of my java assignment. didn’t finish it but i understood it and am on my way on being done. i did more nothing, walked my dog, drank coffee and generally had an amazingly happy nice night.

happy fun land.

my dog is adorable.

i want to be cute and cool like her.

spinning my happiness in a circle makes me a happy, content girl.

i have a clip thingie with a girl and a dog made out of wire. my dad has one of a programmer with glasses and my mom has one of a woman on a bike. they got them … somewhere. they are all similarly styled. and near our computers.

mine is holding up my todo list.

and for the first time in a while it stopped freaking me out.

because my happiness spins clockwise.