Well, whaddaya know, I'm logged in again. ;)

I'm still alive. Struggling, juggling responsibilities, completely fed up with the stupid thesis and the stupid translation... I am so horrible at translating. I am ashamed at how many words I still need to look up, though in my defense, this is an academic text on Arai Hakuseki's view of historiography. Fun stuff. All thirteen pages of it. :p ( Read more... )

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I used to pay for my LJ-account. I did so gladly and it was worth it: $5 bought me two months of membership, hardly a big bite out of my budget. It's probably the only site I ever paid to be a member of. I think I was a paid member for over three years easily ( Read more... )

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I like magic. I was never a serious magician, though as a kid I was trying to learn for a while. I was a rather bad magician, and I make no illusions about that!

I always loved performing, and I am fascinated by weird stuff, especially religious and spiritual weird stuff. I love watching astro-tv, a Dutch infomercial-program where one of the ( Read more... )

Onni is moving back to the girl who got him for me. She's a certified veterinarian who has a lot of rats, a couple of older males too. I'm a bit blue that I have to send him away, but it's for the best I guess. I can't take proper care of him and it's sad to have him live on his own.

Onni (my surviving rat) has a large bump on one of his flanks. He also seems to have lost weight. I need to take him to the vet. Real soon.

At last, good news from the studying department ( Read more... )

Everything sucks. I am trying to work as hard as I can on my thesis and I still only manage to work between 0:00 and 4:00 am, I do shoddy work, I don't get it, I feel lonesome and desperate. I have to have the whole text analysed by thursday and I'll never for my life make it. I cannot concentrate for more than 10 minutes at a time. I feel so ( Read more... )