know that feeling?

you finally have eliminated all distractions, jobs, telephone calls and chats that keep you from studying. Everything is ready for relaxed studying and reading textbooks.

Of course this is the point on which the neighbour above your appartement will begin renovating his kitchen again (with a pneumatic hammer – don’t ask me what kind of kitchen that will become)

it’s pretty funny actually because by the sounds above me I can somehow picture where they are working at the moment and what they are doing.
The drilling/hammering has stopped and they seem to be dragging things around..

ohwell :)

at least Anna is back, that makes it all irrelevant. :D

tolerance

sometimes.. it’s difficult to be tolerant.

For example if the ones that live above you are installing a new kitchen and the one below you has his Karaoke-Machine on (again). And you are supposed to study :P

The problem is not that he has it set to a high volume, mind you… but he can’t sing!
Every time he tries to sind Bryan Adams or Robbie Williams my toe-nails begin rolling themselves up.

I wonder if he is unemployed.. or a student himself.. doing karaoke at these times.

Anything else? Oh, Siepke snores. Such a weird cat. :)

the importance of sports

these days I work out in the evening just before the light is away for the air is nicely chill then.
I promised Anna to take the bike and make one hour trips through the waterland every evening but I decided I’d better work out one hour and really get me all tired, sweating and painful the next morning. I basically do warming up, crunches, pushups, then stretching and when I am really warm I do some KungFu training. Whatever I can recall from the time in Maastricht is being done: Basic stands, punches, blocks, kicks and forms.
Somehow I want a sand-sack badly to have something to beat up :P

Why am I doing this? Because it makes me feel good. Balanced. Happy.

Well, I am a lazy person. I don’t like to do things that I don’t feel like doing.
But when I only sit around and [s]waste time[/s] do what I feel like doing I get melancholic and thoughtful. I begin questioning my existence, life, the universe and everything. Noone likes me when I am in this mood – especially Anna :P

It’s a downward spiral that can only be escaped by hitting it – hard.
In that case, I have to fight myself in order to help myself. Pretty ironic ;)
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cruel

it’s cruel having to wake up early in the morning.

but it’s _really_ cruel to wake up early in the morning and just as you are fully awake the alarm goes off and you wake up early in the morning.
Actually it made me laugh for it’s reference to the Matrix or “Groundhog Day” but it sucked nevertheless.

Anyway: off to my first exam for this summer. seven more to go :P

(predicted) semifinals

just imagine: Iran – USA in the semifinals.
can you imagine more tension and excitement?
As Matt said: “probably there will be only a few players left in the end”

the other combination I’d like to see it Germany-Holland. Problem is: I would have to hide myself somewhere because I don’t belong to either side ;)

water melon

I had almost forgotten what a messy fun a water melon can be ;)
Some things are funny only when it’s summer.
Anna, I am so jealous that you are in Bulgaria right now, where these things are (as everything) 3 times more tasty… :P

14 of june is my bioanalytics-exam; I will get through all the slides once again before I can enjoy this summer, too.
Unfortunately I couldn’t arrange with Arno that we come along and introduce us to him.. that means no big cats this summer :(

rock paper scissors…

found on UPI:
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060608-111059-4770r

ORLANDO, Fla., June 8 (UPI) — A Florida judge frustrated by two bickering lawyers has ordered them to settle their spat with the children’s “Rock, paper, scissors” hand game.

The unusual decree was issued by Judge Gregory Presnell of the U.S. District Court in Orlando Wednesday when two lawyers couldn’t agree on where to take the sworn statement of a witness in an insurance case.

Calling it “a new form of alternative dispute resolution,” Presnell ordered the match to take place June 20 at 4 p.m. at a “neutral site,” ABC News reported. He said if the pair couldn’t agree on a site, they would settle it on the courthouse steps.

Matti Leshem, co-commissioner for the USA Rock Paper Scissors League, praised the move, but said he had concerns over the rules the lawyers will use.

“We will make sure that rock, paper scissors is not made a mockery by the legal system,” he said. “When people take rock, paper, scissors into their own hands, mayhem can occur.”

Florida.. huh? ;)

lazy summer

On my university there are so called “excursion-weeks” this week.

A good opportunity for me to go to Amsterdam “study-camp” to prepare for the exams in bioanalytics which I gloriously failed last time :P

As I look at my schedule it seems to become a hot summer for me.
I registered myself for 8 exams, spread over the period july-september equally so I will be busy all the time. Nice!

Actually there are some very nice events that I want to attend this summer.
The one is the kaboom-festival in Maastricht, featuring electronic music (takes place 31st of June in Ipanema Maastricht) – Ximen will be performing, too.
All hail, Sander.. you seem to have the ability to turn everything you touch to gold! :)

And the other is rather unexpected: a festival in france called “eurockeennes” which features Depeche Mode as the saturday headliner.
Now, tell me where else you can get Depeche Mode for 36 euros this summer :D

Back to the books for me.. one more week to prepare.

Anna is leaving on friday for a 2 weeks trip to Bulgaria, leaving me here with Siepke and the house. I won’t be in Aachen much…