a leaf

rama lama ding dong – muppet style

cut out the singing blue people and i’m loving it

on to mundane things

i had a yearning for fanta all day long, not some cheap taste-a-like orange lemonade, but real, sweet and sticky fanta – so on my way home from work i bought some and luckily a small bottle because instantly after draining the last drop, i was disgusted by it – sweet, sticky stuff – but sometimes you just gotta have it

shockingly so

our possible new foreign minister? – washington post says:

will a schoolboy in a caravan be germany’s new foreign minister – what shall become of that?

and even though we all feared this was going to happen, it is slightly shocking that it is now about to happen – germany, dear motherland, i believe i must abandon you and fly to better coasts – but there is no flying from a foreign minister, is there? – he is bound to be everywhere – ahhh, o horror, horror, horror – better look at my soothing picture

not long now

chestnuts

why does nobody collect chestnuts anymore? – when i was little, it was my favourite sign that autumn was here, dig into the fallen leaves and rummage around for lovely, smooth, silky chestnuts – the things you could do with them – stick animals or just feel them laying smoothly in your hands – or feed them to the wild boars in the city reserve – so many possibilities and just the thrill of collecting and possibly climbing up in trees and shaking them so more would fall of – but today i saw bunches of chestnuts just lining the streets, forgotten and never picked up by a happy child – a sad sight, somehow making childhood, mine and nowadays, something unforgivingly melancholic and despreate, as if it isn’t really there at all

hamlet on dvd

to be released december 28th 2009 – too bad, i won’t be able to import it directly – ah well, wherefore have we amazon?

here she goes again

literally being the elephant in the china store – just dropped my favourite mug (the one with the dragon head as a handle) and it not only shattered to pieces beyond repair, it also spilled half a litre of chocolate milk on my kitchen floor and over my kilt – the kilt was my first worry, should have been my least, it’s made to resist dirt and filth, so a little chocolate milk didn’t matter all that much – the floor was my second worry, but it cleaned up nicely – and only then i realized i had lost my dear mug and am now for evermore drinking chocolate milk from a plastic cup (won’t break when it falls) – at least i had enough milk to make some more and chocolate helps, it really does!

short daily catherine tate # 3

did you hear about our john – daily catherine tate # 2

he’s gone with the wind

my radio wakes me in the mornings, usually with nice music, but sometimes that doesn’t quite work out and i absolutely hate waking up to bad news (bombs in iraq, suicide attempts in afghanistan, atomic accidents etc.) – today it was just half a sentence and a waft of music, but this combination of “…like the wiiiind” and “partick swayze dead” made it immediately clear that i wasn’t still dreaming and what a rude awakening it was

childhood idols are not supposed to die – i say this quite clearly, i  never fancied him all that much, but he was classic and i cannot remember a time without wanting to watch “dirty dancing” and feeling like anything is possible and having the time of my life

this year’s end of the year death summary will be so sad – it feels like everyone is dying – and even if some are delivered from long suffering like patrick swayze and perhaps also michael jackson, it is still very much like seeing good friends vanish and a part of childhood and teenage years go forever – but i’d be a fool to believe life could go on forever and so yet again we have to say goodbye – and definitely watch “dirty dancing” a lot!

daily catherine tate # 1

kiss me…

… i am an enchanted scholarship – to me it seems like all scholarships are enchanted and especially so i won’t understand how to dechant them – kissing? who? and when? and where? and how long? – doing a phd seemed so easy, but needing money to support myself and my not even extravagant life-style is a drag, so a scholarship is inevitable – it’s just a question of enduring

hippie makes happy

i feel like dancing naked in the rain, like singing loudly and smoking weed, like being part of something and making love in the fields – woodstock has definitely taken me with this wonderful movie – go watch and be taken yourself

it includes good music – a great plot – wonderful scenes full of humor, tragic and absurdity – moments that make you giggle so hard you just want to stop because it starts to hurt – and my new favourite ever smiling boy actor jonathan groff – that hair, oh delicious – see for yourself

this day has been a happy one from the start – i was in a continuous good mood and nothing, not even work, could bring me down – it was like being on drugs and whatever that drug is, i want it all the time – so this movie completed my day to perfection – i am happy as a hippie

random ramblings

after having been in semi-depression for the past few weeks, life seems to be getting back on track

i manage to get things done, get up early and start bright and fresh into the morning

last weeks crisis at work has been smoothed over, but i’ve taken an overdue decision – i need a new job, quickly! – started looking and applying

the apartment-hunt has a new twist, no longer intensively looking to buy, but rather to rent and share with two friends

barbaro’s been tame like a lamb and i’ve started to reconsider my feelings – i know, i know, i’ve said so before, but this time it feels like i am slowly making progress – and if he no longer acts barbaro, he might not be interesting anymore – perverse, but if it helps

theater life is a charm, it all works out perfectly and i feel very appreciated for what i do – i only can’t say no and there’s too many projects at once which makes me feel like a juggler, but i think i can handle it, somehow

phd work is also coming along nicely – reading, reading, reading, as if that would be bad, huh?

i’ve been sporty, going swimming once, twice, thrice a week and running occasionally – tonight i’ll see the national football team play azerbaijan in the world cup qualification and i am excited to be at a real stadium again – hoping for loads and loads of great goals

my career as agony aunt has developed into strange new directions – and, same as always, i give help to everybody else with their complicated love lives, while my own stays pitifully twisted as always (okay, there’s hope, but that comes and goes) – but, never mind, it’s okay, i’ll be fine and as much as i love to help, it all works out in the end and everybody is happy, even if it’s twisted and absurd and strange how life and love works – it’s really not all that natural to me that the guy, who seemd hopelessly in love with me not six months ago, is now dating my best friend and talking babies and weddings with her and she only having split up with her ex a couple of weeks past – that’s soap material, not real life, isn’t it?

so, as the leaves start to fall and autumn comes around, i am perfectly content with things once more and ever so glad to be over that depressingly depressive phase – that was hell!

wonderland, naughty!

as mad as a hatter – smirk – and would you like some tea?

berlin story

be there – 24 h berlin – amazing – if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere – a mosaic of a city – 24 h filmed last september and aired this september – tomorrow morning, 6 am – what a great project – and having lived there, the city has this amazing thing, it grabs you and never lets you go – you’ll always be part of it and it will never be the same – i wish i was there now

london

christmas shopping in london – here i come – i love cheap ryanair flights – o my, booked without luggage again, just carry-on – ah well, it’s winter, i’ll just bundle up and wear a whole lot of layers – it’ll be fantastic – hope it snows

you invade my space

cute-ish

apart from the music, this is about the cutest thing i’ve seen in quite a while