I’ve been feeling a bit left of center, although I haven’t been exactly sick – spells of nausea and dizziness, but other than, not much. Yet I’ve been doing not a lot this week – didn’t finish my internship report (barely started it, truth be told), and therefore still haven’t started my German Lit paper. And uni starts again in a week’s time.

Well, but if I suppress my bad conscience, it’s been a pretty nice week. My parents have been in Berlin for the past two weeks, so Michi and I have been living on our own, which works pretty well. Except that we don’t eat enough veggies and salad. *g*

Tomorrow my friend Cindy will come to Basel – she’s been in the US for the past three months, so we haven’t seen each other in a while and I still owe her her birthday present from July (which I bought in Scotland). Not that that’s anything unusual, as we manage to go quite long stretches without meeting up, despite living only one hour apart most of the time. Yet I’m definitely looking forward to tomorrow.

There’ll also be a Zündstoff meeting, which we’ll both attend. Sadly, Zündstoff is at the moment only being published online, because we can’t get enough funding to get it printed. But we’re hoping to go national next spring, which would open up a whole new set of sponsors. I think it’s a pity that it’s impossible to publish a high-quality, independent youth mag in Basel – we were doing better and better with each issue, and I was really hoping to reach some people with my article about SAD.

Oh well, just stay positive. The only reason why I’m up writing this right now is that I watched ‘Halifax’ on TV. It was only the second time I saw that show, but I should have known beforehand that it’d freak me out. My imagination just runs away with me when I see scary movies and stuff. And all the psychological stuff on ‘Halifax’ feels really scary. But I think this post has accomplished its task – I’m not frantically glancing over my shoulder anymore… So good night! 🙂

Sitting at the STI – my very last day and I’m basically done with no intention of starting something new for the couple of hours before the meeting about the internship paper, etc.

So I’m just dawdling about, feeling bored and kinda restless. I think all the decisions and discussions about the future, both with Sandra and Michelle and with employees at the STI, have unsettled me somewhat. It’s all coming together, but still very vague and uncertain, which doesn’t sit too well with me and my inner balance.

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The internship still rules my life. I missed having a weekend and am feeling a bit under the weather. But it’s only a couple more days, so I won’t die of the boredom and repetiveness of what I have to do…

Today after work I met up with Sibylle. We wanted to watch the first ep of the last season of ‘Sex & the City’ (which Sibylle loves) on German TV. But Sibylle isn’t feeling well (like almost everyone else, it seems – must be autumn…), so we just had something to drink, chatted and then went and bought me some new shoes. They’re so elegant (for everday shoes) that they hardly seem like mine… *g*

Now I’m back home, which suits me just fine, as I cherish my free hours these days. Had the first season box of ER in the mail, so I’m currently enjoying the pilot. Wow, I used to watch this show religiously for years – pretty much until Mark’s death. I discovered that new episodes are shown in English on the French channel on Thursday, so I’ve kind of gotten back into the habit. But my heart will always be with the first seasons (the new ones are just a bit too crazy for my taste), so I’m quite happy right now. 🙂

Quite tired and not in the mood to be online much. But I just want to wish Déborah (a lovely girl from Brazil that I met via this here blog) a very happy 18th birthday! Hope you have a great day, sweetie! (That’s what you get for adding your birthday to my list… *g*)

Edited to add: Aww, someone sent me the best song I’ve ever heard about one of my favorite things of the world – Chocolate by Getaway People. This random (and anonymous) act of kindness just made my day. <3

That internship at the STI has taken over my life. I spend my day there and then go home and recuperate until the whole thing starts again…

The good news is that it’s only two weeks, because apparently I only need three weeks, not four, for my major, and both Sandra and I already did one week when helping out at an Epidemiology workshop two years ago. Also, they don’t seem to expect too much of us – I can leave early on the two days that I have to work in the evening, and no one checks how many hours we make.

The not-so-great news is that, although at first it looked as if my job (each one of us does something completely different, all stuff that they don’t normally have time for) would be really easy, it’s turned out quite demanding. They have me translating the website of the German Medical Anthropology work group, from German to English.

At first that was quite good although tiring, because you know me and my love for all things English – but then they liked it so much that they told me to do the whole site. Which includes a great number of scientific abstracts of conference lectures and stuff – the absolute horror! Those things are difficult enough already in German, and translating them really takes a lot out of me. Managed about half of them today, so it’s at least another full day – and I have no idea how happy they’ll be with the results.

Oh well, I’m home now. Need to get off the computer – no energy for nothing and very tired eyes and sore shoulders. I think I hear my TV calling… 🙂

Finally Media Studies has published its classes for the next semester, so I sat down and put together my timetable.

This could be either a pretty interesting or a dead boring semester, depending completely on how the classes will be taught. And I’d much prefer not to have so many classes in the afternoon and hardly any in the morning. Oh well, no different from any other year… I’ve been studying for eight semesters so far, and there’s always been reason to complain. *g*

Monday
10-12: Social Change – Cultural Anthropology

Tuesday
14-16: Psychological approaches – Cultural Anthropology
16-18: Criminal studies – Cultural Anthropology

Wednesday
14-16: Brecht and America – German Lit
16-18: Reading and Writing – Medias

Thursday
12-14: Literary theory – German Lit
14-16: Postmodern knowledge – Medias

Friday
10-12: Prague – German Lit
13-15: Nerd Culture – Medias

Well, that’s what I’ve decided on for the moment – I still can change my mind, since the semester doesn’t start until the middle of October. But I don’t think I will. Except the class that will be preparation for an 8-10 days excursion to Prague. I love Prague – it’s high up on my list of beautiful cities – but I’m just not sure whether I’ll want to spend such a long time with complete strangers. But the temptation is definitely strong. 🙂

A cousin is getting married, so I’ll be in Germany over the weekend, together with my mom and dad. I’ll also use the opportunity for a short visit with Märrie, because it’s on the way. I’ll spend the night from Sunday to Monday with her and then rejoin my parents when they come down on Monday evening.

Sure it’ll be a lot of fun – a good weekend to all of you!