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:

1. Stink:: Wäscheklammer (clothes pin – in my nose *g*)
2. Renewal:: domain
3. I remember…:: the good times I had while traveling
4. Loneliness:: is the worst feeling in the world
5. Ooooh:: aaaaah
6. For real:: most definitely!
7. Titanium:: steel
8. Get down:: get down, and move it all around (Backstreet Boys flashback! lol)
9. Rupture:: tearing it down
10. Dramatic:: personae – but no, that’s dramatis, isn’t it?

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:

1. Shape up:: shake up your life
2. New Orleans:: Mardi Gras
3. In the bedroom:: I live my life
4. All the time:: forever
5. Philosophy:: Nietsche
6. Tyler:: Vince (QAF UK)
7. Disturbed:: dazed and confused
8. French kiss:: Meg Ryan
9. Solidify:: liquid
10. Furtive:: stolen moments

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 18°C 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:

1. Coroner:: CSI
2. Mystify:: myself
3. Corroborate:: elaborate?
4. Misinterpret:: happens much too easily sometimes
5. Humorless:: old bore
6. Calculus:: totally superfluous
7. Eye for an eye:: old testament
8. CPR:: 1-2-3-4-5 *push*
9. Stitched:: needle
10. Facility:: free

Is there anything more fun than watching ‘Diet Trials’ while eating chips and chocolate?

1. Yoda:: it isn’t easy being green… 😀
2. Mensa:: uni cafeteria
3. Pink:: pretty in
4. Text message:: better than the phone
5. Galactic:: express
6. Chicks:: love flicks
7. Quesadilla:: something Mexican?
8. Backpack:: the only way to travel! *g*
9. Socket:: plug
10. Compromise:: is the key to a successful relationship – or something

Haven’t been feeling too great – headache and a cold. So I’m mainly hanging around at home, not really doing anything (except going to work later today). BUT one good thing has just happened: I booked EasyJet flights to Glasgow! For five days at the end of February, because Regina didn’t want to go by herself and I have no willpower when it comes to Scotland. *g*

And unrelated – this week’s Unconscious Mutterings:

1. holiday:: glow
2. fault:: line
3. beep:: beeeeeeeeeep… (too much ER *g*)
4. bubble:: bath
5. needle:: thread
6. fare:: well
7. treat:: trick or
8. express:: post
9. webcam:: and cheese! 🙂
10. capital:: of Switzerland