So I’ve been home for a bit more than a week now, and it’s starting to feel normal again — but not completely, because uni only starts next Monday. I’ll have to go and pick up my Salome paper then, which seems to have been accepted but needs some corrections done.

Have not yet started to work on my fieldwork paper, because I discovered that my supervisor is in Africa until the new year, so there’s no hurry whatsoever. Not that there is a deadline or anything, we can take as long as we want to, but I have to finish it this semester if I want to keep to my schedule.
I have difficulties as it is, because both in Medias and German Lit there are no interesting classes in which to write the second paper I was counting on writing this semester. Sucks — Salome was already a compromise class, not something I really wanted to do, and now it looks as if I have to write my second German Lit paper in something I’m not really interested in as well. Oi, I’m just so wrong for German Lit! (Can’t be helped, though, not without prolonging the time until I get my MA unduly… *sigh*)

So next week uni life will have me again, which means right at first to stand in line to sign up for yoga and ballroom dancing, because I totally forgot that it’s now possible to do so online and went to the website much too late. That’s going to be fun… But I’m hoping that Sibylle (who’s coming home from England today – yay!) will have to do the same, so I won’t be queuing there all by myself at 7am.

In other news, my little brother is writing his first uni paper, in Cultural Anthropology (one of his minors, at my prompting *g*). He didn’t do anything during the entire break (driving my mom crazy with it, of course), and now he hasn’t done anything else but write all week long. Problem is, he has a second paper due in History (his major)… Oh, he’ll learn that he has to take care of those things himself, that no one will make him do them. Eventually. 🙂

Tomorrow my parents will take Michi and I to a castle/hotel that they might end up having their 25th wedding anniversary at. You have to know that this won’t be until 2005, but my mom fell in love with that place and they’re obviously booked out already until Easter 2005… So we’ll take a little trip over the German border and have a look at it.

Another trip Michi and I are thinking of doing is to go to Gruyère (in the Romandie, the French speaking part of Switzerland) to the John Howe exhibition. After all, when will be the next time for us Lord of the Ring nuts that something like that will happen in our own country?
Speaking of LOTR — in November I’ll indulge myself and go visit my friend Märrie in Bonn, just when the big RingCon will happen there. The fan in me can’t wait to see John Rhys-Davies (Gimli) and Craig Parker (Haldir) and lots of other interesting people! I’m also hoping to be able to go in costume — I’m currently looking for an affordable dress to wear as an Elf… Heh, fangirling is fun! 🙂