I have, like, no money. It's quite interesting. I have 99 pounds to last until 21st October. Of that, at least 50 will have to go on travel (by which I mean, if I don't make a single journey that isn't to or from work). From Saturday until Wednesday AM, I'm going to be in Germany and the company pays for everything, but that's still 12 days during ( Read more... )

Afternoon, folks. It's been a while. This journal is way, WAY overdue an update, but I've mostly been too busy doing the stuff to write about it, and in the gaps in between, I've been daunted by the realisation that there's so much to update on. Last time this particular part of the internet heard from me, I was driving myself insane revising and ( Read more... )

Think of that tiny hut in Iceland (where you dream of being in peace to do as you wish and enjoy your own company ( Read more... )

I interrupt what has probably been an intensely boring procession of angsty uni-work-related posts to bring you the news that I have just made cakes. They are pink. They have mashed raspberries in them. They have icing piled on top which is just as high as the cakes themselves. They have little sugar stars on. They are made with this recipe: Read more... )

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*not one of the brightest students in Cambridge. There's a level of alacrity, a level of sharpness which I just don't quite have. The ability to make a connection, think of an answer, process some information, like a snap of the fingers. I can't do that. I know I'm not stupid. I'm in Cambridge, and I stopped feeling like I'm not meant to be here a ( Read more... )

I think it says barrel loads about the German mentality that a friend of mine was taking part in Ju jutsu at a German national level and weighed a kilo too much to enter for the weight category she'd been weighed as at the start of the year, and was so instructed to jog the kilo off over the course of the day. When she was 100g off the weight limit ( Read more... )

I was talking to a German friend who briefly spoke to my dad on the phone today, and when I asked, he said "Sorry, but your Dad speaks better German than you ( Read more... )

I think I know what I want to do when I graduate. I want to move to different countries round the world teaching English and German as foreign languages. It's not a pipe dream, but something which has slowly materialised and clarified over the past few months ( Read more... )

So, ich hab mir heute eine deutsche Tastatur gekauft- 12€, und sie ist übrigens bequemer als meine Laptoptastatur. Heute früh hab'ich ein bisschen verschlafen, aber mein erstes Seminar ist sowieso langweilig. Zumindest sind die Seminare für dieses Semester schon fast vorbei. So schnell läuft die Zeit! Dann war das zweite eigentlich sehr ( Read more... )