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Deep Blue

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I just went to see Deep Blue with my mom. Regina and her mom, as well as her brother with girlfriend, came with us. A really great movie – those images of sealife were absolutely stunning and accompanied by beautiful music.

Now I want an underwater layout – something beautiful, with fish and corals, all in blue… Someone stop me, as I just got my lovely chocolates and love them still! 🙂

Less amusing is the amount of spam comments I’ve gotten lately – at least one or two every day. But I don’t want to turn off the comment feature, I really don’t… Any suggestions?

New weblog

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On my pretty new Raspberry Kisses domain I just installed MT and created a reading log. Bookish will be an attempt to keep track of what I’m reading. Mostly books, but I might also add links to fanfiction (which I enjoy a lot) from time to time.

I couldn’t be bothered creating my own layout at the moment – I had physical therapy this morning, and my whole back is aching. Plus, I’m a bit down, so I think I’ll get off the computer and curl up on the couch…

A meme – and a new domain

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Unconscious Mutterings, this time a bit early…

  1. Dogma:: Alanis Morisette as God
  2. Spirit:: Spirited Away
  3. Voodoo:: Doll
  4. Demon:: mask (I went to an exhibition about carnival today)
  5. Digital:: camera, a lovely toy!
  6. Ceremony:: wedding
  7. Research:: New Zealand
  8. Career:: not for me
  9. Penis:: strange object, that! 🙂
  10. Film:: Lord of the Rings

I also bought the raspberry domain I was talking about – it’s only my personal site collective at the moment, but feel free to have a look… 🙂

I can now offer free hosting on six domains – wow! But really, that’s enough! Should I start talking about getting another one, someone stop me please! LOL

And now the bath tub is calling me… Have a good weekend, everyone!

PHPCurrently with Mood Add-On

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There’s a new PHPCurrently version (2.0) available, which has a mood add-on, similar to the mood icons on LiveJournal. Moodthemes are downloadable here.

I’m using ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ at the moment, because the Billy Boyd theme was using huge pics. But I sent in my existing two LiveJournal moodthemes (LotR and Dom/Billy), so maybe I’ll switch soon – or someone else makes a LotR moodtheme for me to use. 🙂

More Fasnacht

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Fasnacht is over for this year – but oh, was it fun! I got sick after Monday, but still managed to have a little walk around after work on Wednesday with my brother. Took some pics, but most of them didn’t turn out so great. These are my favorites (click for full-size image):
cliqueheadsWaggis
The first pic is of a ‘Schyssdräggzygli’, a band of people just walking through the streets playing their pipes and drums. The second one just struck me as funny – a clique (band) took off their headmasks and went for a beer. And the last one shows two Waggis, which are probably the most typical costume, making fun of our Alsace neighbours. They can be quite scary, because they sometimes grab you and proceed to stuff you with confetti or hit you with their paddles – but those were friendly. 🙂

If you still haven’t got enough – Shelly, an American friend of mine who lives in Basel now, posted about her first visit to Fasnacht and took some really cool pictures: one, two, three.

Basel Fasnacht

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Die drey scheenschte Dääg (‘the three most beautiful days’), that’s what carnival is called in Basel. It’s a really big thing, with tenthousands of people participating and hundredthousands of people attending. Normally I go to the Morgestraich, the official beginning at 4am on Monday morning, and a couple more time times to see the brassbands and take in the atmosphere – but this year I showed Adrian around, so I’ve done a bit more… And it’s not over yet – tonight is the big brassband concert, which I never miss, and the exhibition of the big lanterns, which are always worth a closer look.

He took pictures at the Chienbäse in close-by Liestal on Sunday night, where people carry burning brooms and huge burning wagons through the town streets, as well as during Morgestraich, and has posted some of them on his site. Here are some of my favorites from Chienbäse:
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Another week over

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This week has been pretty emotionally draining. Obviously I have to find something in addition to my daily light-therapy, because it really can’t go on like this. So I called first the hospital where I was diagnosed, which was not very helpful, because I’m not quite ready for anti-depressiva yet. Then I called my doctor, and he recommended a shrink to me. I guess I’ll call him on Monday and see what he has to say…

That is, if he’s open on Monday – it’s carnival time here in Basel, die drey scheenste Dääg (the three most beautiful days) are starting Monday morning at 4am. And I’ll be there, together with Adrian, for who I’ll play Fasnacht guide. Is going to be fun – freezing, though.

More about Fasnacht (hopefully with pics) later. Have a good Oscars weekend everyone! 🙂

Of memes and domains

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This week’s Unconscious Mutterings:

  1. Angel:: wings
  2. Birth:: day
  3. Logic:: Mr. Spock
  4. Stars:: in the sky
  5. Nursery:: rhyme
  6. View:: point
  7. Hart:: to Hart
  8. Creation:: of the world
  9. End:: of all things
  10. Fortune:: cookie

I was supposed to go to work again today, but for the first time since I started there I found a replacement on short notice because I didn’t feel up to it. But I’m feeling better than yesterday, especially mentally, so that’s good.
It’s all grey and rainy outside, so I guess this’ll be a lazy day spent drinking tea and resting… And maybe I’ll even get some reading done for my fieldwork paper.

I’m also thinking of getting another domain for myself and for hosting. That stuff is addictive! 🙂 It’ll probably be raspberry-kisses.net – what do you think of it? I’ve also been kind of tempted to get fandomish.net, as a purely fannish domain for fanlistings and stuff, but I’ve always dreamed of a raspberry domain. Chocolate only won out the first time, because well… it’s chocolate! *g*

Actually I came up with a whole list of names – I had way too much fun with GoDaddy. My third favorite is probably faerie-wings.net. Tell me what you think of my ideas – maybe I’ll change my mind about the raspberries…

  1. raspberry-kisses.net
  2. raspberrykiss.net
  3. fandomish.net
  4. fan-nish.net
  5. faerie-wings.net
  6. dance-with-me.net
  7. sun-kisses.com
  8. butterfly-kissed.net
  9. empty-pages.net
  10. pen-and-paper.net

I just thought the last two up, as a matter of fact, because besides chocolate, raspberries and fannish things, I’d also kind of like something to do with writing, with books and pages… Sadly enough, bookish.net/.com/.org is already taken, and I don’t want a .us domain. If only Swiss domains (.ch) weren’t so expensive…

But now I’m starving and am off to breakfast. 🙂

Another life sign

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I’m a bit sick today, which doesn’t go very well with having to work. But so’s life, right? Haven’t done much all week, despite the break and the many things waiting to be done – just didn’t have the energy. Don’t know if it’s SAD or the flu or whatever, and it doesn’t really matter, does it? These six weeks will be over much too quick in any case.

But I haven’t just been sitting around – I’ve reorganized my site collective and I’ve gone to the movies a couple of times. Too many good films in the theatre right now – three more I have already agreed on going to see with people, and there are some more I’d be interested in. I wish we had 1$ cinemas like they do in the US! 🙂

Now I need to get ready for work. Hope it won’t be too unbearable – will take more meds with me, just in case, because there’s no going home early in that job, as I’m all by myself at the reception.

Wishing everyone a good weekend!

I know that it’s Monday…

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But anyway – here are the Saturday Senses:
[taste]:: If you could no longer taste any liquids/drinks, which liquid/drink would you miss and which would you be happy not to taste anymore?
I’d miss the fresh and comforting taste of peppermint tea, which is just about my favorite drink in the world. I would not mind not being able to taste coffee, truth be told.

[touch]:: If you could no longer feel physical pain, which kind of pain would you be happy to never feel again (I know all sorts of pain are bad, but choose one that is specifically the worst for you).
I’m not good with pain in general, but seeing that every month I’ve got cramps (although not so bad anymore, thanks to the wonders of the pill) I definitely wouldn’t mind getting rid of those…

[sight]:: If you could no longer read, which part of your life would be most affected? Additionally, look around you and try to imagine how many things you wouldn´t be able to do in the room you´re in if that ever happened.
Not being able to read? That would be the most awful thing in the world! No online anymore and, even worse, no books? My room is filled with shelves and shelves of books — it’d just about kill me not to be able to read them anymore…

[smell]:: Which food´s smell is so much “part of the food” that you´d miss smelling if you could no longer smell anything you eat?
Oh, there are so many things where the smell is an important part of it — but I think I’d miss most smelling anything with chocolate, vanilla or honey in it, because those give the food so much more of a comfort factor.

[hearing]:: If you could no longer hear people´s voices, whose voice would you be glad not to hear and whose voice would you miss hearing?
There are some voices that grate in my ears, mostly when people have the habit of yelling instead of speaking. I’m mostly thinking of some of my old people at the retirement home here. And miss? I’d miss the voices of anyone I love, because the voice is so much part of them…