The plus side of being insanely busy

This week has been pretty heftig, and stressful. But tonight is going to be a good night (to misquote the legendary Black Eyed Peas who I heard in the shower this morning).

Lack of a computer has meant that in my rare free time I have been able to catch up a bit on correspondance. I am WAY overdue in replying to letters. To my shame it has taken my almost 2 months to reply to a good friend of mine. No idea where the time flies.

Yesterday Philippe arrived from Paris. He was meant to arrive on Tuesday but because of a job interview delayed his arrival a day. He got the job so he’s now in proper celebrating mood. It’s lovely to see him. I made a massive stir fry last night, 1kg of rice for 6 people (gonna be having rice for lunch and supper today…)

AND he gave me a box of Ladurée macaroons, apparently the last word in macaroons. They were delicious. He certainly knows the way to a girl’s heart.

All my student friends had their last exam today so tonight we’re going to go to the Oktoberfest to celebrate. This will be the first proper outing of my Dirndl.

Gasoline

This song stuck in my head as soon as I saw Inglorious Basterds and I just HAD to hear the full version. Enjoy Bowie in all his glory.

Short update

STILL haven’t had time to properly sit down and blog. And have a totally kaputt computer so can’t blog anyway even if I had time. A is still in full exam season so in my role as best girlfriend of all time I have been feeding him. Making sure he gets his vegetables and whatnot. His computer has also recently died, but not due to an evil virus like mine, but because of some essential hardware problem.

The beginning is the end is the beginning

This song isn’t actually in the Watchmen soundtrack, only in one of the trailer versions. When I watched the trailer, AFTER watching the film I just thought that the music fit the mood of the film so perfectly. To listen to if you having dark thoughts about the world

Watchmen

I have this movie in my head. I’ve watched the first hour and 4 minutes and can’t WAIT to finish work so I can go home and watch the rest…

This film was Alex’s choice. Back in March I wanted to see Slumdog Millionaire and he wanted to see this. We went to see Slumdog but didn’t manage Watchmen. When he suggested it I was like, meh, why not.  But…when we started watching it last night (far too late) I was gripped from the beginning.

Visually, it’s stunning, as can be expected from Zack Snyder (300), with a good storyline, cool characters, heroics and an awesome soundtrack. I mean, 99 Luftballons as the music to two old friends meeting in a chic restaurant? Would never have expected it, but, strangly, it worked. Lots of music from the 60s, I’m going to have to get hold of the soundtrack now.  It’s not a nice film, and there is plenty of violence with a dark view of humanity and it’s great.

Now I just have to see if the next hour and 40 minutes live up to the beginning.

Broken Computer

I currently have a major hurdle to any blogging I’d like to get done – my computer is broken. My laptop has contracted a really nasty virus (some rootkit Trojan) and is vey ill. Not even internet works. This means that the only time I have to blog is surruptitiously in my lunchbreak at work. It’s not been well for a couple of weeks now meaning that I have been neglecting my friends, my family, my blogging and general internet enjoyment. Alex installed some extra-powerful antivirus thing this week so I’m going to try to cure it at the weekend. At the moment I’m just counting down till October 22 when Windows 7 comes out so I can get a new computer.

In the meantime if anybody out there knows how to get rid of one of these, please feel free to leave a hint!

Kommunikationskongress 2009

This week the Kommunikationskongress 2009 is taking place. It is the annual Conference put on by the Bundesverband deutscher Pressesprecher.

I have been listening to the livestream at work, which (if you speak good German) I can thoroughly recommend for all PR professionals and anyone interested in how the communication landscape is changing, because it is, really fast. This is mainly due to the internet but any changes have been speeded up by the credit crunch. The news, and therefore communication landscape will never be the same.

Teenie Blogs

I stumbled accross a brilliant article in Freitag online today which talks about teenagers being the new blogging royalty. This doesn’t surprise me at all as  more than anything teenagers have more TIME than aynone else to do things. When I was a teenager (sooo long ago ) I remember I would spend whole evenings reading or chilling or whatever. Now I have a billion other things I need to get done / want to do in the precious few hours between work and sleep. Teenagers are familiar with technology and can easily access tools to create relatively sophisticated blogs. It is also REALLY easy nowadays to insert picture, video, audio and interactive material into a space online, without having to learn complicated computer languages. Nevertheless I take my hat off to these blogs :

Style Rookie: A 13 year old fashionista. I actually love this blog at the moment. It’s really refreshing and reminds me a lot of me. I used to make loads of scrapbooks of stuff and was (and still am) an obsessive picture horder. My old room was covered in pictures I’d cut out of style magazines. Dressing up, obsessing about pretty things and taking photos were (and still are) high on my list of things I like to do, but she’s already a lot better than I ever was on the actual fashion.

Foodie at fifteen: food, food and more food

Ultra Culture, films, culture etc

Platform, young peole’s stuff (:)) , grungy, diverse and cool