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June
2008
I enjoy the LOLcat macros a lot - they never fail to make me grin. Basically they’re funny pictures of cats (and other animals) captioned using really bad grammar and spelling. Several internet speak phrases have been coined on that site (like the ‘let me show you it’ used in the subject line).
Anyway, I found a cute picture of a porcupine I took at Basel zoo a while back and decided to try my hand at creating my own macro. A friend provided the caption, because I’m just not that funny. 
moar funny pictures
Posted: Links, Memes
4
October
2007
Posted: Memes
1
October
2007
From here, International Bloggers’ Day for Burma on the 4th of October.
About “Free Burma!”
International bloggers are preparing an action to support the peaceful revolution in Burma. We want to set a sign for freedom and show our sympathy for these people who are fighting their cruel regime without weapons. These Bloggers are planning to refrain from posting to their blogs on October 4 and just put up one Banner then, underlined with the words “Free Burma!”.
Take part in this action for a Free Burma!
Taking part in the Free Burma! campaign is as simple as possible:
If you are a website owner or blogger you just have to post one entry on the 4th of October 2007 on your website/blog with the title/text Free Burma! and include one of the graphics from this page or from our Flickr group to sync our global voices. Please use the tag “free burma” if possible. For bloggers, our slogan is: “One blogpost for Burma”, for website owners: “One text for Burma”.
If you have no website or blog we need you even more: Please help us to spread the word while commenting on other blogs with our message/link, posting on forums, guestbooks and message boards, tell your neighbours, friends or kids and first of all: Sign our list of participants! Furthermore you can visit our Wiki for more information and organisation.
Further links:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/stand_with_burma/t.php
http://www.bpf.org/html/whats_now/2007/burma_peace.html
Posted: Links, Memes
10
November
2005
This sounds like a good project for 2006…
Read 26 books in 12 months by authors you haven’t read before. One for each letter of the alphabet (going by the first letter of the last name of the author).
I’ll add to the list in my reading log as I get recommendations for writers I don’t know already!
In life update news: Yesterday I finally showed my family (and my brother’s girlfriend) the photos from my Japan trip. Afterwards we went to dinner at the only ‘real’ Japanese restaurant in Basel, where the manager was a bit too much of a snob but the food was excellent (and prepared right at the table):
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Tomorrow I’ll get some driving practice in: Our neighbours are on vacation, so we have the use of their car, and my parents suggested that we do a daytrip, to the Papilliorama. Looking forward to it, although I’m a bit nervous, as always when I get a chance to drive.
Posted: Life, Memes, Photos
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April
2005
So normal life has me again… All my classes have started and it looks to be a good semester. Don’t have a lot of hours anymore - I only needed four to fulfill all requirements but took 12. Because I’m a good student like that. 
Good thing about the few hours is that it gives me time to think about the last two papers I have to write as well as give some more thought to my thesis topic. This uni thing is going pretty well at the moment. I have to do some small things for several classes, but managed to have them either now or at the end of the semester, giving me free time for when my friend Bronwyn comes to visit for two weeks in May. That’s going to be so much fun!
Anyway, here’s this week’s Unconscious Mutterings:
- Horrendous:: experience
- Home video:: not something I’ve ever done
- What a girl wants:: what a girl needs…
- Grounded:: American teenager thing
- Trusting:: implicitly
- Simplistic:: simple
- Buzz:: cut
- Balcony:: Romeo and Juliet
- Roar:: lion
- Hooker:: prostitute
Posted: Life, Memes
21
March
2005
My break is over in two weeks, so I thought it was time to put together my schedule for the next semester. Go me!
The coolest thing is that I went through my notebook and realized that I’ve got enough classes in all three subjects for my degree! So all I have to do is go to that one Oberseminar in German Lit and finish my papers, and nothing should be in the way of me signing up for my Masters thesis/exam after this semester… Okay, so that won’t be before January 2006, because of the stupid deadlines, but still - another step in the right direction!
The classes I’m taking (just to make sure and because I’d feel strange not taking any *g*):
Cultural Anthropology
- “On the African Occult. Religion and Witchcraft in Historical Perspective” (seminary)
- “Picture - Image - Media” - the anthropology of media (seminary)
Medias
- Popular culture and the medias (proseminary)
- Classics of media theory (proseminary)
German Lit
- Literary ethnography (lecture)
- Early mass medias and the beginning of the novella (”ober”-seminary)
And this week’s Unconscious Mutterings:
- Stink:: Wscheklammer (clothes pin - in my nose *g*)
- Renewal:: domain
- I remember…:: the good times I had while traveling
- Loneliness:: is the worst feeling in the world
- Ooooh:: aaaaah
- For real:: most definitely!
- Titanium:: steel
- Get down:: get down, and move it all around (Backstreet Boys flashback! lol)
- Rupture:: tearing it down
- Dramatic:: personae - but no, that’s dramatis, isn’t it?
Posted: Life, Memes
17
March
2005
Oh dear, I’d conveniently forgotten that the arrival of spring, long-awaited as it usually is (and especially this year, which was the longest winter I can remember experiencing here in Basel) unfortunately also means the arrival of my hayfever.
I shouldn’t be complaining, I know, since a) a lot of people suffer much more from it than I do (like Sandra, who has to take cortison against it) and b) I’ve already gotten a late start, since normally I’m already starting in late January, with the first hazel pollen… But still, it does kind of ruin the pleasure of going for a walk - I’d been really looking forward to it, but when I was outside, my nose started feeling all ticklish and my eyes and throat went all scratchy, although I had armed myself with nasal spray and eyedrops before leaving the house.
I guess it’ll be another month or two, when all the early bloomers are done, until I can truly enjoy the lovely sunshine. Achoo!
Also, haven’t done the Unconscious Mutterings in a while:
- Shape up:: shake up your life
- New Orleans:: Mardi Gras
- In the bedroom:: I live my life
- All the time:: forever
- Philosophy:: Nietsche
- Tyler:: Vince (QAF UK)
- Disturbed:: dazed and confused
- French kiss:: Meg Ryan
- Solidify:: liquid
- Furtive:: stolen moments
Posted: Life, Memes
15
February
2005
For the last week I’ve had a visitor from England, which explains my quietness, since Amy and I had quite a full program. I got to play tourguide through Basel, we did a day trip to Zurich - and then there was the Fasnacht. The ‘three most beautiful days’ were of course the high point of Amy’s visit, especially the Chienbse in Liestal on Sunday evening and the Morgestraich at 4am on Monday. A cousin of my father’s and my brother came with us, and we had a great time.
I’ll probably post some of the photos taken in the last week once my life has calmed down again (tomorrow’s another full day, after that I only have to write on my paper in the week before going to Glasgow with Regina) - but for now, here are some fantastic photos my friend Jill took. Much better than anything I’ve got!
And last but not least - Unconscious Mutterings:
- Judge:: Judy
- Detroit:: industry
- Hyphen:: -
- Get it right:: or get nothing
- Pulsating:: heart
- Yoga:: meditation
- Memorable:: event
- Financial advisor:: accountant
- Ten million:: dollars
- I:: dream
Posted: Life, Memes, Photos
7
February
2005
Been having not-so-great days/hours more often again. Think I might start the St. John’s Wort pills, since I talked it over with my shrink and he thinks that it’s justified if my mood noticably deteriorates. Still, the decision doesn’t come easy, but I really don’t want to go back to where I was this time last year - down, down, down… I need to be able to function. And I just feel so out-of-balance much too easily.
But no use to dwell on this - so let’s change topics, to this week’s Unconscious Mutterings:
- Shelter:: from the storm
- Karate Kid:: yi-haw!
- Andrew:: that guy from Buffy?
- Rib:: pork
- Push it:: Salt n’Pepa
- Creep:: me out
- Chainlink:: chink in the chain (’Meet the Fockers’)
- Squash:: the pumpkin or the sport?
- No mercy:: silly popsongs
- Superhero:: complex
Posted: Memes, SAD
30
January
2005
I mean, I love snow, don’t get me wrong - only it hasn’t really snowed all that much and I’m supposed to be writing on my paper…
We have the heat up pretty much as high as it goes, but our radiators don’t seem to work properly (plus our windows are 30+ years old and badly isolated) and it’s only about 18C in the apartment. My preferred room temperature would be more like 22-24 degrees… Have I mentioned recently how easily I get cold? I mean, I’m wearing two pairs of socks, my poncho, and am wrapped in a blanket drinking hot tea most of the time - and still I’m cold… It would be funny, except how the hell am I supposed to type and be focussed when my fingers are turning into icicles?
I guess I’ll just re-read the novel for my paper, so I don’t feel like a complete cop-out. Bah.
Also, this week’s Unconscious Mutterings:
- Coroner:: CSI
- Mystify:: myself
- Corroborate:: elaborate?
- Misinterpret:: happens much too easily sometimes
- Humorless:: old bore
- Calculus:: totally superfluous
- Eye for an eye:: old testament
- CPR:: 1-2-3-4-5 *push*
- Stitched:: needle
- Facility:: free
Posted: Life, Memes
