Ghostbuster

Today is awesome because I know that somewhere, sometime about now, Tom Felton is walking around dressed as a Ghostbuster. I SO want to see those photo's.
Not celebrating Halloween, I've spent my day making myself do homework, to which my brain has protested fiercely. I couldn't focus on anything for longer than forty-five minutes. An all-time low, I think. One more paragraph of contemporary history and then I'm calling quits. I hope I'll be a little (ok, a lot) more productive tomorrow. I'd better.

Z's. Lots of them

Today is awesome because I slept in. That's really all. I spent most of the day studying for Middle Ages, which wasn't bad at all. Is it weird that I enjoy homework so much? I am rather glad about that, saves me a lot of agitation.

Dunno

Today was awesome because... You know what? I can't remember. I'm sure today was awesome, but the alcohol in my bloodstream and brain isn't letting me remember why. Too bad.

Moses

This is why today is awesome:


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Seneca?

Today is awesome because I had another class in History Introduction and it's still awesome. Also, I read some Seneca, who has a pretty relaxed view on life and death (I don't care if I die, I don't care if you die, I don't care if the world ends tomorrow because I'm mentally at peace with the world). That's a pretty relaxed (and stoic, I envy the stoics) view on things, but to me it seems very hard to accomplish. I am a rather emotional person and I can't even emotionally detach myself from my books, let alone my family and friends. I did bear the ruining of my Rosenwein (Short history of the Middle Ages) by coffee quite stoically, if I say so myself.

New classes

Today is awesome because I had my first History Introduction class. And it's awesome. So far, it's more social studies that history, which is really interesting. Generally speaking, they're teaching us about the history of history. I mean, how cool is that? No problems there. It was a really interesting lecture, mostly about Luhmann's social theory whatchamacallit. It's way complicated, but all the more interesting and a proper challenge because of it. A challenge! I thrive on intellectual challenges. Not that everything at university should be really complicated or anything, but some proper mindblowing what-the-fuck-is-this-supposed-to-mean-ednes every once in a while doesn't hurt.

gliding

I seriously need to remind myself to blog.. My excuse is that I have been very preoccupied this weekend, but even I find that a very lame excuse. Friday was awesome because I had the day off for the first time in two months. I still did some homework, but the point is that I didn't HAVE to, which was a very good feeling.
Saturday was awesome because my aunt and I co-celebrated our birthdays. Sunday was awesome because I went gliding for the first time since university started! It was really great. I flew for a total of twenty-five minutes in two flights, the first one a check-flight with an instructor and the second one solo. I loved every second of it, it was so quiet up there. It was also kind of sad, however, because this was probably the last time in a very long time that I flew. It might even be years before I fly solo again: university is taking up all of my time and therefor I have decided to put flying on hold for now. A painful decision, but a necessary one.
And now I've arrived at today. Class was rather boring (Medieval History anyway, Contemporary History was better), but today is awesome because I finished the book I was reading. It was a really brilliant novel about a woman who sort of learns through her relationships with seven different men (not all romantic) about life but mostly about how messed up she is in the head. She reminds me of myself in some respects, but I hope my psyche isn't as screwed up as hers... She ends up with a psychiatrist at the end, because all the philosophizing has driven her nuts and chased her lover away.. My life may be boring, but at least it's not as screwed up as hers.

bday (not mine)

Today (technically yesterday, but it's not tomorrow in my mind until I've gone to sleep and woken up again at some decent hour) was (a concession) awesome, because it's my grandmother's birthday (happy birthday grandma!!). I couldn't go visit, however, because today was also the day of my second and final preliminary of this half-semester whatchamacallit. It was on ancient history, in a class called Foundations of Western Civilization (very fancy). I think it went ok? At least I'm done with the prelims now, that's definitely a relief. I think I did well, sort of, but I'm not sure if I did well enough..
I also decided to check my class schedule, and they've changed it! I now have this weird class on Thursday's from 3 'til 6, which means I can't eat dinner at any normal time unless I eat junk. But they did give me Friday's off instead of Thursdays which I guess is cool. Long weekends!

btw. I was completely stressed out for today's prelim yesterday, that's why I forgot to post. But yesterday wasn't awesome anyway.. Except that a classmate sent me the most amazingly short summary of our textbook, that was pretty awesome.

ps. really awesome video: You're gonna miss me.

first prelim & Truth or Fail

Today is awesome because my first preliminary exam went great!! Ok, so I didn't ace it, but it went really well and I feel pretty confident about it. Never mind that all this confidence will evaporate during the coming hours (because that's what it always does. The reason I'm writing this blog now and not later tonight), right now I feel like I pwnd that exam beyond recognition. Which is of course no less than it deserves. I even finished an hour early. So I'm really relaxed now, which means I won't have so much difficulty concentrating on studying for Ancient History I, my second prelim (Globalization I being the first). Yay!

Another awesome is that I helped write the script for Hank Green's next episode of Truth or Fail, on hoaxes. It was hilarious. I was going to study tonight, but I'm glad I did this instead. It's really nice to work on something like that with some like-minded people, making up wierd hoaxes.

"In 1997, Hitler's evil baby clone (who we thought was in the Evil Baby Orphanage) escaped, and terrorized the small town he inhabited, killing all but 3 people.

We know these people today as Jackie Chan, Chuck Norris, and Homer Simpson.

Yeah, I know, I suck at making hoaxes."

If that isn't made of awesome, I don't know what is.

studyday

*listening to the twitter song by Melissa Suzanne* Genius!!

Aside from that, today's really lazy. I guess today is awesome because the companies have finally decided amongst each other who's going to buy the line of stores that I work for. So that's nice. I read that the store should be redecorated before the end of the year.
Slightly less awesome is that one of the smaller banks was declared bankrupt this morning. The owner is yelling about how it's the ministry of finance's fault, but really, he's just talking out of his arse. And that's all, sadly, I have very little to share on these days when I'm home all day studying.

overstressed twitter

Today is awesome because I calculated my hours, and I've only spent 34 hours studying this week, which is shockingly little time. I haven't been below 40 (below 45, even) at all this semester. I actually feel a little guilty about it. Then again, it did have a lot to do with a few unforseen circumstances and the fact that my overworking myself finally cought up with me on wednesday.. and I crashed. I was like twitter when there's too many people online: everytime I tried to process information or someone wanted something from me, I freaked out.

potterpuffs

Today is awesome because I have found out that, despite what I thought, I am capable of slacking off. I had planned on doing a lot of studying today, but so far I have only done about three hours. I've been updating my profile page (meaning I've removed a lot and changed some other things) and took a long dive in the wonderful world of Potterpuffs! I love them.

bday!

Today is awesome because it's my birthday!
Slightly less awesome was that someone jumped in front of the train, causing me to get home an hour later than usual as I had to take a train, then a bus, and then a train again. I know, I know, I'm supposed to feel bad that I'm bitching about getting delayed when a person died and all, but I didn't know him/her. I mean, I can't care about everyone, right?
I didn't really celebrate my birthday. I have two tests next week which I should be studying for (not that I am, mind you, but I will be tomorrow), so I'm not entertaining any visitors this weekend. Everyone called though, that was nice. I'm just spending the evening relaxing, browsing a little on YouTube and reading some fanfics. A very good way to spend a lazy evening. I needed this.

Why today is awesome

I'm not doing this for anyone else. I'm doing this for me. This blog is a way for me to remind myself why my life is a good one, and there's good things happening to me every day. So here's what you (I'm talking to myself now) are going to do: every day, write down a reason why that day is/was awesome. That's all. Simple right? So let's start with today.
Today is awesome because I finished the 50 book challenge! Well, I finished my 50th book of 2009 yesterday, but I only realized it was my fiftieth today..

Here's the list of all the books I have read this year ([e] stands for English, [d] stands for Dutch):
01. George Orwell, Nineteen eighty-four [e]
02. Bernard Schlink, De voorlezer [d]
03. Harry Mulisch, Twee vrouwen [d]
04. Herman Finkers, Liefde is vreemd [d]
05. James Cogdon, A soldier for Eden [e]
06. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita [e]
07. Joanne Wissinger, Victorian details [e]
08. Laura Esquivel, Rode rozen en tortilla's [d]
09. John Benteen, Fargo #1 [e]
10. Madeline Hunter, Stealing heaven [e]
11. J.K. Rowling, The tales of Beedle the bard [e]
12. Ian Samson: The mobile library: the case of the missing books [e]
13. Jeffrey Archer, Shall we tell the President? [e]
14. John Green, Paper Towns [e]
15. Nora Roberts, Morrigan's cross [e]
16. Philippa Gregory, The other Boleyn girl [e]
17. Matthew Reilly, Area 7 [e]
18. Lee Child, Gone tomorrow [e]
19. Douglas Kennedy, Leaving the world [e]
20. William Diehl, 27 [e]
21. Richard Calder, The Twist [e]
22. Diane Carey, Enterprise; broken bow [e]
23. Mitch Albom, The five people you meet in heaven [e]
24. Erich Maria Remarque, All quiet at the western front [e]
25. Boris Akunin, Turkish gambit [e]
26. Sidney Sheldon, windmills of the gods [e]
27. Bram Stoker, Dracula [e]
28. Harry Mulisch, De aanslag [d]
29. De heilige Qor'Aan [d]
30. Patrick Süskind, Het parfum [d]
31. D.A.F. de Sade, De 120 dagen van Sodom, of: de school der losbandigheid [d]
32. John Green, Looking for Alaska [e]
33. J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone [e]
34. J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the chamber for secrets [e]
35. J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban [e]
36. J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the goblet of fire [e]
37. J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the order of the phoenix [e]
38. J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the half-blood prince [e]
39. J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the deathly hallows [e]
40. J.D. Salinger, The catcher in the rye [e]
41. Henri Stierlin, Griekenland; van Mycene tot Parthenon [d]
42. Jan Siebeling, Suezkade [d]
43. Roald Dahl, Kiss kiss [e]
44. Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina [d]
45. Ernest Hemingway, To have and have not [e]
46. Janet Frame, Faces in the water [e]
47. Aidan Chambers, Postcards from no-man's land [e]
48. De Koran [d] (very liberal translation by Kader Abdolah)
49. Gerard K. van het Reve, Nader tot u [d]
50. John Green, Paper Towns [d]

That's the list! I have started reading De wetten (The laws) by Connie Palmen this morning. I haven't gotten very far yet, but it seems to be a good book.