Dreaming with the wind

I just wanted to let you know that my Spanish course is a lot of fun but - as expected - a hell of a lot of work as well. I’ve hardly found the time to go online during the last week because I was pretty much constantly studying. I don’t think that’ll change much for the other two weeks of my course.

I’ll try to skim through my flist every few days or so but I probably won’t be able to read everything, much less comment. So if anything important happens just tell me in a comment.

¡Feliz fin de semana!

I don't believe it!
The registration for my Spanish course starts tomorrow. 3 days before the semester starts which is on pretty short notice but I can live with that. Signing in of course doesn't mean that I'll get in this time. I just have to try.
But when I looked on the website today they had changed the courses dates. It was supposed to take place Tuesday and Thursday from 8:30 to 10:00. And now it's suddenly Tuesday and Thursday from 10:00 to 11:30.
I already have another course Thursday at 10:00. It's computer science, my major, so I can't just drop that course for Spanish without substition. I'm trying to change courses around right now but that's not exactly easy since I already had to sign in for some weeks ago.
Of course all the VHS courses have already started. There's another Spanish course at uni in the evening but that's rather inconvenient since I live a 20 minute drive away from my uni.
I had my schedule worked out so well and now it's completely messed up again.

Thank you once more, dear university, for your nonexistant organisation.

I haven't written about my personal life for quite a while now because there's nothing really exciting going on. But I still think it's time for an update.

The semester is coming to an end soon - two more weeks to be exact. That's usually the time when things get crazy but since I probably won't take part in a single (written) test the semester is rather dying away this time. There's one lecture where we'll be able to write a test just to see what questions could be like at our diploma examination but that'll be very relaxed since it doesn't count for anything. And there's the presentation for my practical course which looks like a pretty big deal with being public and the press being there and stuff but I don't have to do this one on my own plus I'm fairly sure they're just trying to make it look important. Either my team thinks it really is a big deal then one of them'll probably want to do the presentation and I'll just attend for moral support. Or they think about it like I do and then I don't really have any problems with doing half of the presentation or something. I don't really like speaking in public but as long as I can figure out exactly what I want to say beforehand it's okay.

Future plans other that I'm still dreaming about owning a small house somewhere at the Irish coast - Southern England'd be fine, too: I have this idea lately that once I have my diploma I want to get my Master as a professional translater or something like that. Of course I want to finish my diploma in computer science first even if that may just be because I want to prove that I can and I already spent so much time and energy on it. Plus I need the diploma for my Master if I don't want to spent another 2 years on the Bachelor first.
But starting right with the Master means I'll need a really good basis. I don't think that'll be too big problem with English but I'll need at least one more language. I'm afraid Latin won't count. Not that I still know that much Latin. Actually I never did since I used to hate that language. Stupid me. Now I'd love to know more Latin. Why didn't anyone tell me that back in school? Anyway I'll need another living language and I have about two and a half years to learn it properly if I start now. So I did start. Yesterday. With learning Spanish. For a start I went to the local library and got a book. Funny thing I figured out today when I tried to remember the first bunch of vocabulary that consisted of short sentences: I tried to figure out the grammatical structures without even realizing it first. I guess that makes things much easier for me. I always was much better with grammar than with memorizing vocabulary.
Next step will probably be a Spanish course at university and maybe an English language course either in Galway or Cambridge. I'm thinking about next year early spring or around August/September for the latter.
I'm not saying I'll really go through with this plan. Who know's what I'll be doing and what I want in two and a half years time. So much can happen till then. But I want to keep all my options open. And fortunately learning a new language never is for nothing.

What else? I'm not even sure I ever mentioned I'm learning how to ride. So in case you don't know: [Bad username or site: dimturien / @ livejournal.com] has been giving me riding lessons for... more than half a year now. Once a week. Okay, sometimes it's only every other week because other things intevene. She's doing an awesome job, by the way. It's going... well, some things go quite well, some don't. But there's not really any pressure since I'm not planing on doing a test in dressage or anything I'm mostly doing this for fun and getting my mind off everyday life. So as long as Dim and Marietta are not annoyed with me not figuring some things out I'm fine. Of course I want to be able to go for a ride and feel safe because I know what I'm doing one day but I'm not in a hurry.

By the way: Sorry for hardly commenting lately. I'm not online that much at the moment. That seems to happen that time of the year that I suddenly lose interest in going online a little. I always thought that was with spending more time outside but obviously it happens during rainy summers as well. I'm reading all your entries though. And I'm sure there'll be times when I spent almost every waking hour in front of my computer again.

Erm... I admit I didn't listen to the radio but how bad exactly do people think that this storm is going to be?
My mother just called to ask if I had to go to my seminar today or if it had been canceled because of the storm. Well, it hasn't (as far as I know) and I have to go because we have our finals there today and if I miss them all the work - seminar paper, presentation, two weeks of taking part in the seminar every day from 6p.m. to 8:30p.m. - would have been for nothing. So my mother told me in that case my father'd drive me to university and back home tonight. WTF?

It was pretty windy when I drove to the uni this morning but it was fine. Actually I completely enjoyed walking from my car to the building feeling the strong wind and during the lecture I spent about half of the time looking out the window, watching the trees move and listening to the sound of the wind and I really had to resist the urge to squeee.

So, at about 3 p.m, right? *sits at the window and waits*
Yeah, I just love wind and storms. Maybe a little too much.

Edit: Huh, looks like the seminar is getting canceled:
"Orkanwarnung: Aus Sicherheitsgründen bittet die Hochschulleitung darum, alle Veranstaltungen an der Universität heute ab 15.00 Uhr abzusagen. Dadurch soll es den Beschäftigten und Studierenden ermöglicht werden, vor dem für den späten Nachmittag erwarteten Orkan sicher nach Hause zu kommen."

So I pretty much studied for nothing all morning. *sighs*

Just a quick update on my life since I haven't written about it much lately:
University started again yesterday with a test I had to write to be allowed to take part in a course. It's not that important, I don't really need to do it but the description sounded interesting. The test was about a book I had to read and it was okay though I don't know if my answers were specific enough. I'll find out if I passed it in a few days I guess and then hopefully they'll also finally tell us when the course will take place exactly. It'll be two blocks but I don't know when yet.
I still have to do 2 more oral exams for my intermediate diploma probably somewhen between january and march and that's what I'll focus on this semester. I don't need any courses for that any more so my schedule looks pretty empty even though I'm already taking some advanced study lectures. Today it was "logistics" and so far I quite like it.

On the way home I drove by Spillner and Lehrmann and spent way too much money there. But now I have some new decoration for autumn, season 4 of Gilmore Girls because I lend dimturien my season 2 and 3 box sets and when I gave them to her I told her I'd probably miss my dose of squeee!Jared and then I'd have to buy season 4. and some movie about the Amityville Horrors. I think it's not even really about the legend but just someting connected to it and it's probably the worst movie ever - on the other hand it can't be much worse than "House of Wax" - but it was just 4 euro so I thought I'd give it a try.

I'll go to work again on thursday for the first time in about 4 weeks or something. And then - during our lunch break of course - my Mum and I'll go to some shop that has horseback riding stuff. So, Dim, I guess we can talk about when I'm going to visit you and Metta again. *g*

On a normal day it takes me about 20 minutes to drive to university. 25 minutes if the traffic is really bad. Today it was 2 hours.
There was some accident on the autobahn so everyone had to leave it and take the road I take. It was horrible. I admit, part of it was just me being stupid cause there's one possibility to leave the road at Rottendorf about 5 km away fom where I leave it anyway and I thought about driving there and trying to figure out another way to get to university. But then the traffic got much better till about 50 meters ahead of the slip road everything stopped again. But it was great how calm everybody stayed despite the heat and everything.
And there was this guy walking down the side-strip. I guess he just wanted to see what was going on - or he wanted to find out if he could reach Wuerzburg faster walking than we could driving. Probably'd have won that one. - but something about him just freaked me out and somehow made me realize that I really couldn't drive anywhere neither forward nor backward.

Where is Chris when I really need him to orb me somewhere?

Anyway: I wanted to attend a lecture at 9a.m. and had a rather important meeing for a project at 10a.m. I was 20 minutes late for the meeting.
So I rushed into the building and met my professor there who told me that our client just had left. I really thought I had driven there for nothing. But the prof managed to get our client's daughter on the phone and she promised she'd try to reach her father and after about 5 minutes I saw him walking back into the builing. When I told him about the traffic jam and about how sorry I was he was so nice and like "Oh my gosh! 2 hours? Poor girl." And in the end when we were done he insisted on giving me money for the fuel even after I told him that I didn't drive there just for the meeting but also for the lecture even though I had missed that.
I guess we were really lucky with this project and our client being friendly and really excited about it.
I'll still be happy when this is over after our presentation next wednesday.

Ich hatte heute meine erste Vordiplomsprüfung. Eine zwei Stunden lange Klausur in Linguistik. Und es ist richtig gut gelaufen. Wer mich kennt, weiß vermutlich, dass ich normalerweise sehr vorsichtig bin, wenn es darum geht Aussagen über Klausuren zu treffen, solange ich das Ergebnis noch nicht habe. Aber heute war ich ich einfach rundum zufrieden als ich - nach nicht viel mehr als einer Stunde - abgegeben habe.
Stand des Vordiploms: 1 von 5 Prüfungen hinter mich gebracht.

Und um meine gute Laune gleich noch mehr zu verbessern, habe ich auf IMDB gesehen, dass Chris in der letzten Folge von Charmed dabei ist. Wheeee! *freu* Ich habe zwar keine Ahnung, wieviel wir in der Folge von ihm zu sehen bekommen, aber ich freue mich über jede Szene mit ihm, die ich bekommen kann. Ich habe noch nach ein paar anderen Quellen gesucht um sicher zu gehen, dass das auch wirklich stimmt. IMDB vertraue ich nämlich nicht mehr, seit es mich bei 24 so verwirrt.

( 24 Day 5 Spoiler )

Anyway: Bei Chris könnte man fast meinen es war Absicht, dass ich ausgerechnet heute erfahre, dass er nochmal in einer Folge dabei ist. Immerhin saß ich heute Nachmittag bei einer Szene von Supernatural zum ersten Mal wirklich mit einem "Hach! *herzchenaugen*" vor dem Bildschirm.
Deswegen: Keine Sorge, Chris, du hast nach wie vor meine volle Aufmerksamkeit.
*hüstel*Realitätsverlust*hüstel*


*HAAs=HochAktuelle Amouren. Genaueres nachzulesen auf der Misfits-Homepage die pfefferminzchen so toll gebastelt hat.