January 2012
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Sgt. PEP-ers lonely hearts club party
Can you believe that somebody thought of this name for a party (explanation: It’s shortly after Valentines Day, right after exams and organized by the PEP-students [Politics, Economy, Philosophy]) but nobody thought of making it Beatles-themed? Or at least 60s themed? Somebody just thought of the pun and left it at that? Horrible, right? These people with their seriouspants...
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So I was entering the staffs vacation data into...
This sounds like the most boring post ever and let me assure you - this is a boring task and this post won’t be interesting at all for you but it is very interesting for me because it turns out, I got new vacation days for 2012! I thought I only had 1.5 left but I got some new ones and now I can take six days more off, if I’m so inclined to!
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mostdangerousmime replied to your post: Grumble
My name is ALWAYS mistaken for a man’s name so I frequently get addressed as “Mr.” It’s frustrating so I added “Ms. A— Mimes” to my signature line in my email. It’s politely professional and maybe a tad passive-aggressive.
I thought about doing that in my signature with Mr. Executive too but it sounded too weird in German. And we have a corporate...
mymissus replied to your post: Grumble
Someone on the executive board gave you a personal title? If my executives emailed me they’d be like “Hey you - “
Yeah, I’m important!
The real story is this: A few weeks ago I wrote this article about facebook for them so they can publish it on their newly launched marketing app thingie (I don’t know what it is exactly but I’m sure it...
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Google
Y’all. I just heard a presentation about SOLOMO (Social + Local + Mobile, my work is fucked up like that) and I now know some of the shit Google is up to. Sooooooo evil! I mean, convenient! But invasive! But y’know, making things a lot easier! But sooooo evil!
Google has a patent to put ads into Google Street View pictures. Meaning, that you could book a wall in a picture taken by a...
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I got an email addressed to a Mr Isis H. and I don’t know if it’s okay to reply to him that Isis is a female name. I usually would but the dude’s on the executive board of mothercompany and I have to put my bosses in CC, so there is no space for some passive aggressive education.
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One again though, Germany:
Hire Austrian actors to speak Austrian roles. You. Can’t. Fucking. Do. It. Yourself.
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Of course I'm making a red-orange-yellow sauce...
Of course I am.
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“Der Bart als phylogenetischer Terminalhaarrestbestand unserer ehemaligen ...”
– I found this dissertation on the cultural history of beards via facebook and when I’m too stressed out and frustrated (like now), I read a bit in it. This is the first sentence.
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Shitty things starting with P I have to deal with...
PowerPoint
Photoshop
Period Pain
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They were playing Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want as I approached the cashier so I went ahead and got it.
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Well, that wasn't difficult.
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konradpaul-zwiespalt replied to your photo: It’s as chocolate-y as it looks (Taken with…
looks like the best kladdkaka ever!
It’s something else. It’s a chocolate cake crust filled with… compressed mousse au chocolat? Yeah, that’s as close as it gets.
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I'm not talking with my best friend
This title is more dramatic than it sounds. My best friend is a guy I know from kindergarten who lives in Sweden at the moment. And we don’t talk right now because we never talk on the phone, we never email and we never communicate in any non-personal way. Occasionally one of us comments on the others facebook status. That’s just the way it is and it doesn’t matter. We...
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Mr W. will be in the hospital for another one or...
His daughter just came in and told me that they at least found out that he hasn’t cancer (he used to work with asbestos) but there is still water coming out of his lungs (or something). This puts my whining about possibly-getting-a-tonsillitis-but-probably-just-a-bad-cold into perspective.
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I'm in the slow café
When my sister visited me she swore the service wasn’t slow but it is. so. extremely. slow. I like it here, though. They have wi-fi and good cake, they play nice music and I’m about to get soup and a hot lemon. Eventually. I ordered five minutes ago and there is only one other guest that needs anything right now and two waitresses.
The most exciting thing right now is that I’m...
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I don't have tonsillitis
I might still get it though because tonsillitis is one of the bitchiest of the -itises (the meanest being urinary tract infection) and you never know! It might show up! My tonsils are swollen and it can go either way now! Life’s a rollercoaster like that. I’m supposed to continue drinking tea and eating oranges and they prescribed me some sort of echinacea mouth spray that is not...
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Shit, my tonsils hurt.
I’m going to the doctor right now, I’m not risking anything.
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A sickday!
I was hoping I’d feel at least a bit better today so that I could do one of the million not work-related things I have to do but since moving anywhere farther than the kitchen is fucking exhausting, I won’t. I’m also starting to wish I had some real medicine. Tea and eucalyptus baths are nice and all but a chemical solution or even just some aspirin would be handy right now.
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One of my favourite things on German dubbings of...
(Actually the only thing I like because the synchronisations are almost always lazy and badly made.)
Accents usually get ignored completely which is a shame because I would’ve loved it if Hagrid spoke, I don’t know, Saxonian German. If the accent is part of the conversation, they have to build it in somehow and then they sometimes use Austrian accents to signify that a person has a...
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Oooooooh!
There’s a bit on super religious, right wing Americans on ARD. I love it when TV goes all “LOL America!” but has to try to keep a straight face because they’re serious journalists and stuff.
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I'll probably call in sick tomorrow
Depending on how crappy I feel in the morning. If I don’t feel a tremendous amount better and do go in tomorrow, I’ll drag this cold on for another couple of days and I wouldn’t be of much use at work anyway in the state that I am. I just remembered that I don’t know how to access my work-email from my computer because I don’t know the URL of the mothercompany’s...
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"Don't drink tea! Be patriotic and drink more...
- [paraphrasing of what 18th century politicians told the people of East Frisia]
The wikipedia article about East Frisian tea culture is a gem. It’s German, so here are some highlights:
The average tea consumption of an East Frisian was 290 litres/year in 2008, that is 12 times the average of regular Germans.
Before tea, they mostly drank beer. Tea was cheaper though so when tea started...
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I'm really exhausted after...
Complete success, by the way. Didier Cuche won (I’ve been misspelling him all my life, it turns out.) and two Austrian dudes are behind him so the world won’t fall apart just now. Nobody died, nobody fell into a coma (like last year), nobody even got hurt. There is a possibility that somebody of the last 30 contestants got hurt but German TV wasn’t showing them since they...
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So glamorous
I’m past battling my cold. I’m just sick now. Since I came home I
watched five episodes of Doctor Who
cried because I watched the latter half of season 4
drank insane amounts of tea
went to the loo a lot
ate a cheese toast and two oranges (although I have proper food at home but I wouldn’t enjoy it and it’s too good to just be eaten because you need to eat)
replaced...
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Because we're super Austrians, S. and I...
We’re doing a hahnenkammwatchingschnitzeleatingevent. The Hahnenkamm race is a yearly skiing race. It is extremely dangerous and people regularly die or get paralysed there, so of course it has great viewing rates. In Austria, where skiing is the most important thing in the world, the Hahnenkamm race is the Holy Grail (not the Holy Grail of skiing; the Holy Grail of Everything). People in...
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It's Friday so of course I'm getting sick
My nose started running yesterday evening and I got so mad at my body. So mad! I did everything right this winter. I dressed warmly enough although I’m in a place that is less cold than Vienna, I drank tea, I ate citrus fruit, I even went for the occasional walk. Nevertheless there I was, sitting in bed, watching Wednesday’s episode of Happy Endings for the second time (soooo good!...
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Today in terrible TV I watched for no good reason:...
Because I am watching Once Upon A Time (although I don’t know why I bother since the scruffy Huntsman died), I figured I also have to give Grimm a shot. It’s only fair. Let me tell you what it’s about:
A dude (a policeman) comes from a long line of Grimms (but his last name is not Grimm!) which means that he has a special gift. That gift is that he can see fairy tale monsters...
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“The EU is not a doormat on which you wipe your feet; it is a common house that...”
– Daniel Cohn-Bendit. If you have the slightest knowledge of French I suggest you listen to the original because it’s much more angry than the emotionless English translator. Also he says “mal à la tête” and I just like how that sounds in French.