At least I’ll be trying not to. 🙂

The last few days have been either very busy or very lazy — maybe I’ll get the mix right one of these days…

I could finally talk about my paper and got my ideas pretty much shot down. So it’s going to be literature work — comparing Wilde’s Salomé and another text (Johannes by Hermann Sudermann). That text was published 1898 and it’s impossible to buy it anywhere (believe me – I’ve looked), so I spent some time at the German institute’s library, photocopying the whole book. Presence libraries (where you’re not allowed to take books home) suck!

Much less frustrating (on the contrary!) is that I got my travel documentation, the bill for flight and Australia visa, and bought guide books for NZ and Australia. Can’t wait – only six weeks to go!

This weekend has been busy — and very heavy on movie watching. On Friday several friends came over and we had one of our semi-traditional movie nights. We watched A la folie… toujours (with the actress from Amélie, Sleepy Hollow, and Nightmare Before Christmas, so it was almost a Tim Burton night, and a lot of fun! And last night, after work, we went to see The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers at an open-air cinema, which makes it five times that I’ve seen that movie on the big screen — still can’t get enough of it. And sitting in the grass, under the stars, surrounded by trees and with a swimming pool right behind me, gave the whole thing a special appeal — I adore open-air cinemas (we have two every year – one at the pool and one next to the cathedral), I spent way too much money on them every summer…

These days I enjoy that kind of evening spent with friends more than going out clubbing — I’m getting lazy in my old age, I fear! *g*