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The power of the written word ... and its occasional drawbacks
While researching sex and gender for my book on ancient Egyptian love songs that's in press ATM, I came across a book entitled The Sexual Paradox by Susan Pinker ( Read more... ) -
Random stuff
Indulging in one of my (many) obsessions, I bumped into badfic_quotes and spent an unhealthy amount of time laughing hysterically at excerpts from (bad) Torchwood fiction. There's everything, culminating in Jack Cannibal Harkness. Go check. It's tagged for the various fandoms ( Read more... ) -
Still alive ... and well
Yes I am ... I've just had to cut down on my internet presence due to basically having two fulltime jobs. And tried to avoid English in order to Germanize my mind. Which I've done to such an extent that I now feel like a Hottentot writing English ...
Perhaps it's time to revive my English LJ or I'll turn into a German alltogether. -
Exhausted, but happy
First boxing lesson today. Everything hurts, but it was fun and I kept moving far beyond what I though possible. I just hate how much I sweat afterwards ... But yeah, that is definitely coming into my training plan ( Read more... ) -
I guess I am running mad
I was reading ancient Egyptian magical texts today, searching for a parallel to a love song that I am translating for my book, and reading stuff like "Baal will hit you with the pine tree that is upon his hand" I could not help but seeing the Sexy Stargate-SG1 Baal ALL the time.
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My first real gym lesson over here
As I am, until Thursday, incapable of doing the machines, I wanted to go to "power workout" lesson today. Unfortunately, my landlord decided to start fixing my phome line just at the moment when I was preparing to leave, and as he's doing this for me, giving me a phone free of charge for calls free of charge all over Germany, I kind of felt it ( Read more... ) -
I've got gym membership, finally
I missed trainig so much, despite the fact that I cycled a lot ... I guess I needed the three weeks of getting to know the new city and extablishing a new lifestyle and paying a mebership much longer before today would not have been wise ... but the moment I entered the gym today, I knew I had to buy the card and start going ( Read more... ) -
Library behaviour
I'm probably too conservative as far as behaviour in libraries in concerned. Today, in the wonderful Egyptology library here in Berlin, there was a girl whom I wanter to strangle. Literally ( Read more... )
