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SleepyWitch
08-18-2007, 04:01 AM
...Litnetters.
hope it hasn't been done yet... tell us about a day in your life, what you did, when you did it etc. try to pick an average day, neither a particularly interesting nor an extremely boring one.
this way we can learn more about each others' life (hopefully)
you can do it more than once, but please don't describe every single day in your life.
I'll start with yesterday (coz it's only 9.30 a.m. here and I haven't done anything yet today)
Friday, August 17, 2007
8.00 a.m.: got up and had breakfast
10.00 a.m.: boyfriend returned home with shopping, helped him unload the car (we live on the fourth floor/ fifth floor for Americans)
remembered that I needed a letter of student status for the summer 2006 term because my dad's doing his tay return thingy.
I said "Let's tell dad there was a looooooong queue of medicine students enrolling, we couldn't get through"
10.45 a.m. boyfriend drove me to Erlangen (where my univ is), because Academic Office closes at 12.00 and it was too late to catch the train.
there's a bike race in Fürth (our town) and we have to go the long way round because half the town is cordonned off by the police)
11.20 there is a loooooong queue of medicine students waiting to enroll. I turn on my heels and go back to the car because there's no point in queuing.
12.00 lunch at the refectory in Nuremberg. forced to eat fish (I'm a veggie and a fish is not a plant in my dictionary!) because the veggie meal consists of three tiny pies (about an inch in diameter) without any sidedish, sauce or other fancy trimmings
13.00 - 16.00 sat around at the fair trade shop (boyfriend volunteers as a shop assistant there) and tried to read some stuff for my thesis... it was boring so I tried out the African instruments and bought a tiny knitted whale.
16.00 drove back home, the long way round again, had a lovely tour of the southern part of Fürth, looks even more dodgy than our "ghetto", lots of "used-car dealers" there, and people live in pavilions and weird constructions.
will take pics someday, if the camera doesn't get stolen there.
17.00 boyfriend and watched an episode of Star Trek-The Next Generation on DVD
18.00 went back to Nuremberg by tube (without boyfriend) to go swimming with best friend.
19.00-21.00 swam 2,000 metres, splashed around a bit
21.00 - 22.30 Doner Kebap and Starbucks with best friend. went home by tube
SUMMARY: an exceptionally lazy day *guilty conscience*, it's the summer break, though
Pensive
08-18-2007, 04:18 AM
What an interesting thread! I wish everyone here would like to tell us about her/his day. *pries* :p
But how can you keep track of time during summer holidays? :p
SleepyWitch
08-18-2007, 04:23 AM
What an interesting thread! I wish everyone here would like to tell us about her/his day. *pries* :p
But how can you keep track of time during summer holidays? :p
hehe, tell us about yours then, Pensy :)
dramasnot6
08-18-2007, 04:46 AM
Great thread idea!
Well, my day thus far:
7:30-10:30 - woke up, realised it was my first whole day(excluding all of last night) for 40 Hour Famine, lounged around the house and watched 2 hours of the news to keep my mind off breakfast
10:30-11- attempted to study but felt dizzy, surfed the net and wrote my emails
11-2 - Went to the mall and bought some much needed new jeans, sipped giant water bottle while eyeing mom's lunch
2-4:30- engaged in my all-time favorite activity, SECOND HAND BOOKSHOPPING, and ended up with a bit of Kant and D.H Lawrence
It's 4:44 now here, I doubt I will do more than walk my dog and call up a friend for a chat for the rest of the day, just anything to keep my mind off food!
Sounds like quite a day Sleepy! Too bad about that fish incident, too many restaurants aren't very good at catering to vegetarianism.
SleepyWitch
08-18-2007, 04:53 AM
hey drama, what's 40 Hour Famine?
dramasnot6
08-18-2007, 05:47 AM
It's a fundraiser going on this weekend in which you get people to sponsor you to not eat anything for 40 hours to raise money for children in Laos
Pensive
08-18-2007, 08:13 AM
hehe, tell us about yours then, Pensy :)
You would get bored. :p
Barlo
08-18-2007, 09:15 AM
This thread is great! What a nice idea...
Friday, August 17.(all my days are basically the same, so it doesn't matter which one I describe:D )
10:15 Woke up due to the intense sound of LOUD drilling coming from a neighbour. Tried to sleep a bit more but the noise was too loud. Got dressed went to buy some clothes...
12:30 Got back home, started studying for an exam I have in september.
14:00 Finished studying, went online, checked my mail, visited the forum for a sec. Listened to some music and played a game on my pc(dont judge me I was BORED:) ) after which I got something to eat.
17:00 Got a call from my girlfriend(she lives in a city that is really distant), we didn't talk to much, I was kinda nervous...
19:00 Got dressed, said hello to two of the baby pigeons that made residence on my terrace, and went out to go to my friend by foot.
19:30 Got to my friends house, we played the guitar for some time and then went outside so that he could smoke. We sat there and drinked coke for a while.
00:10 After phoning everyone and realizing that no one wanted to go out, we went to hang around in the park(there was a band playing latin music on a stage there), and finaly ended up siting on a stone block next to the river talking about the usual things...the fact that time flies and that we are getting older all the time.
3:00 Went home and hit the sack...
SleepyWitch
08-18-2007, 09:21 AM
hi Barlo, nice to meet you :wave:
sounds like a typical student's day :)
Virgil
08-18-2007, 05:28 PM
19.00-21.00[/B] swam 2,000 metres, splashed around a bit
What a great idea for a thread Sleepy. I'll have to pick a day you might find somewhat interesting. I highlighted that from your day Sleepy. I wish I could do that. That is s impressive to me. I can swim, but I bet not very efficiently. I bet I couldn't swim more than 100 to 200 meters in all. 2000 meters! Wow, and you consider it lazy. :)
barbara0207
08-18-2007, 05:29 PM
Hi, Sleepy, nice thread! :D
Erm, Barlo, how are you going to pass your exam if that's your typical day? :lol:
One of my typical days: last Thursday.
8:00 coffee and a cig for breakfast, read the newspaper
8:20 cook lunch
9:00 get ready for school, teach four lessons of English
13:30 say hi to my husband, have lunch
13:35 say bye to my husband (he has to be back at the company by 14:00)
14:00 check my e-mails, play a little game
15:00 grade papers, prepare the lessons for the following day and the songs for the choir
18:45 go to choir practise. (Boys only today) Tell three boys to choose a different class (completely out of tune). And there are so few boys interested in singing! I was so hopeful when the new ones came!
21:15 have supper, talk to my husband a little
22:30 go litnetting
All right, that was my day.
SleepyWitch
08-19-2007, 03:23 AM
What a great idea for a thread Sleepy. I'll have to pick a day you might find somewhat interesting. I highlighted that from your day Sleepy. I wish I could do that. That is s impressive to me. I can swim, but I bet not very efficiently. I bet I couldn't swim more than 100 to 200 meters in all. 2000 meters! Wow, and you consider it lazy. :)
heheh, I meant, I did 2,000 and AFTER that splashed around with my friend a bit :)
I used to do 3,000 metres a week in one go. no I do 2,000 on my own and another 2,000 with my best friend on another day.
2,000 metres isn't exactly a piece of cake, but it's not too much either. the problem with swimming is that your (or at least) my muscles only warm up after 1,000 metres, so once you've done 1,000 it gets easier.
some people do 5,000 metres (front crawl) at a time.
basically, it's all a matter of breathing technique :D
8:00 coffee and a cig for breakfast,
what a great role model for your students :D
hehe, I usually have the same for breakfast :)
My last 4-5 days (can't even remember) have consisted of sitting at the computer trying to finish my dissertation taking too many breaks :rolleyes: The only variation was the change of location when I went to do it in the library (oh and Friday morning I went to a shop to return something), but in the weekends it's closed. This also consisted on waking up at 8.30 every day, including Saturday and Sunday, and well that's early for my standards :D (especially because I can't seem to be able to go to bed much before 1am lately...)
stephofthenight
08-19-2007, 03:15 PM
4:30 am- barrel training
6:00 am- shower nd plaid hair
7:00am-litnet/myspace
8:00 am- feed the animals
8:30 am- start brekfast
8:45am-litnet/myspace
9:00 am- clean house
11:00 am- cofee break
11:30am-litnet/myspace
12:00 pm- excercise the horses
1:00 pm- timetrials 3 sets
2:00pm- cool and feed horses
3:00pm- work on poetry
5:00pm- work on debate cases
7:00pm- fix dinner
7:30pm-clean house again
8:30pm- work horses
9:00pm- feed all the animals
9:30pm- shower
11:00pm- eat dinner
11:30pm- litnet/myspace
12:00am-coffee/poetry
2:00am-bed
verrys depending on the day of the week, this is scedual for tommrow. normaly there is less with the horses, and more with the poetry and work.
:eek: you never sleep? I mean 2 hours? :eek:
What's with all these animals, do you have a farm or something? :)
stephofthenight
08-20-2007, 02:34 AM
lol no, coffee has become my best friend.
and the horses i run barrels on arnt mine, as for the others, well im a softy and animals love me...daddy cant resist the crawling in lap and the tears of the poor animal so i normaly keep, name, and feed anystray i can fine. :)
Barlo
08-20-2007, 10:58 AM
Erm, Barlo, how are you going to pass your exam if that's your typical day? :lol:
Well I am counting on my charm:D . Being as you are a professor yourself I would be glad to get some free advice on how to improve my "suck up" skills and score better grades(but please without having to sleep with my professores, they are all old crones :lol: ) without having to change my day habbits(or more precisely the lack of my day habbits).
My apologies for this post's unrelatedness with the thread...
barbara0207
08-20-2007, 04:37 PM
Easy - either rely on your charm entirely (chance of failure: 90 percent) or put some serious work in (0 - 10 percent). ;)
I know from my own studies that self-discipline, not the curriculum, is the hardest task for students. If you are serious about wanting better marks, make a time-table for the following week. And if you have managed to put in all the work you planned to do (about 5 - 6 hours a day, some even have to do more), reward yourself with a little something. See if it works. :D
But we don't want to hijack this thread :sick: , so if you should have any more questions, feel free to PM me.
DeathAngel
08-20-2007, 04:45 PM
woke up
watched tv
made grilled cheese sandwhich
bothered people over the phone
watched movie
bothered more ppl on the phone
stared at the wall for some time
tried to watch the passion of the christ, but i got somewhat bored of it
played with my ipod
and then i died...
Granny5
08-20-2007, 05:06 PM
Woke up late, but we're on vacation so who cares?
Played on the computer a while
Started throwing out anything we hadn't used in 6 months
unless it was pictures, books, or sentimental stuff...
Still working and will continue till we're free of clutter.
It amazing how much clutter one can collect in 33 1/2 years but
we are taking MH advice and tossing it all.
Found my wedding dress!!!!
Now it's break time!
Shalot
08-20-2007, 09:05 PM
woke up at 4 am ish
Prepared a healthy breakfast of eggs, oranges, toast and ham and sat at the table to eat it with my coffee.
Folded a basket of laundry I didn't get to yesterday and logged on to LitNet for a minute
Went to the gym for 20 mintues on the elliptical
Went home and showered
Went to work.
Did work, flipped through the avon catalog, did some more work, passed on Milkshake Monday, which is one of those bs moral boosters that doesn't do anything but boost my blood sugar, plus I am lactose intolerant, did some work, put off dealing with a collections letter from a Law Firm (because it was BS and too hard to explain just yet)
Went home
Sat on the couch with cats and watched a show
Went back to the gym for 20 more minutes
Went back to the office for my Ipod which I left there by mistake
Came home
I am watching reruns and posting on LitNet
SleepyWitch
08-21-2007, 01:52 AM
4:30 am- barrel training
woke up at 4 am ish
riiiiight! what is it with you guys? insomnia?
how can anyone get up at 4 unless they really have to? booooohoooo, i always feel totally knackered in the morning, no matter how long I slept or what time I get up :bawling:
what time do you go to bed Shalot?
kilted exile
08-21-2007, 10:25 AM
Ok, this is yesterday.
5:00 - Get woken up by infernal ringing device of torture (aka alarm clock). Hit snooze and go back to sleep.
5:30 - Actually get up, Triple S.
6:00 - Make breakfast (English Muffin, bowl of frosted flakes, glass of Pomegranete juice)
6:45 - Get dressed (meeting today so have to wear tie:sick: ) pack overalls, work boots & hard hat change for site visit.
7:30 - Leave for work, listen to Modern Scholar Audio CD about "The Epic" whilst driving in.
8:15 - Arrive at work, check e-mails etc and BBC site/Lit-Net
8:40 - Double check powerpoint for meeting
9:00 - Meeting with municipality regarding a contract for design/build of a new watermain.
10:30 - Discuss status of my current projects with boss
11:00 - Start work on a new GIS map required after morning meeting, try to get aerial photos for overlay layer.
11:30 - Get aerials from contact, import into ArcMap.
12:00 - Lunch (crisp sandwich, blueberry yoghurt granola bar, can of sprite), annoy people on Lit Net
12:30 - Leave for site meeting (new sewer we are overseeing construction of.)
13:00 - Arrive at site change into overalls etc. Have meeting.
13:45 - Go into sewer to check joint grouts.
15:30 - Leave jobsite
16:00 - Back at office, write up report on meeting while still in my head
17:15 - Send report to boss.
17:20 - check e-mail again, reply to urgent ones. Forward joke e-mail.
18:00 - Leave work and head home.
18:55 - Back home after stopping at sushi place to pick up dinner.
19:30 - Washing up
20:00 - Sit down watch Blue Jays lose to Oakland, scan internet.
22:30 - Off to bed, to sleep, perchance to dream
applepie
08-21-2007, 04:21 PM
My days are pretty boring but here it goes:D
7:30 Get up because both kids are insisting I get out of bed. I also let both dogs out for their morning potty break.
7:45 Make breakfast for my son, normally a bowl of cereal some fruit and milk. I also sit Victoria in the highchair to eat some cereal and fruit as well.
8:00 both kids are eating so I use this time to put away the dishwasher and clean up the kitchen.
8:15 Check school web site and see what I need to do for the day. I also will pop in here for a moment or two.
8:30 Make sure my son feeds both of the dogs. Victoria is normally finished eating by now, so I clean her off and clean up the food mess from breakfast as well as feed her a small bottle.
8:45 I let Garrick watch cartoons so I can finally make some coffee and eat breakfast. Most days all I have time for is a cup or two of coffee and a yogurt.
9:00-10:00 is play time with the kids. Garrick watches cartoons, when he isn't grounded from the TV (which is almost never these days) and we all play toys for a while.
10:15 Victoria sits down for a snack. I normally start a load of laundry and I will pick up the living room. The majority of the toys get picked up and I will also vaccume the floor to get up the dog hair three or four times a week.
10:45 or 11:00 depending on when I get to it. I start to wake my husband up so that he can see the kids before they go down for naps.
11:30 I start to prepare lunch. It is our big meal of the day so it takes a while. Today was a pasta salad with chicken and roasted peppers.
12:00 The hubby finally gets out of bed with much grumbling
12:15 Lunch time for the whole family and Victoria eats a bottle after
13:00 Garrick and Victoria take naps
13:15 I come here for a few minutes of unwind time
13:45 I start any housework I need to do. Today is laundry, reorganizing the book shelves, sweeping and mopping the kitchen, doing the same in the laundry room, bathrooms, and cleaning up from lunch. This normally uses up all of nap time.
15:00 or 15:30 The kids wake up and if the hubby is working he leaves at 15:30 to go to work
16:00 Snack time for the kids and I normally do another cleaning pass in the kitchen while they are eating.
16:30 More play time. Sometimes we go out to the park, but today I think it is going to have to be inside.
17:30 I start to prepare dinner.
18:00 Me and both the kids sit down to eat a light dinner.
18:30 Clear the table and get the dishwasher running
19:00 Bath time for the kids and also time to clean up the toys again
19:45 Victoria get a final meal and bottle as well as a short story before going to bed for the night.
20:00 Story time for Garrick after brushing teeth.
20:15 or 20:30 depending on the length of the story is bed time for Garrick
20:45 I start working on any homework I need to do for the day. I will normally work untin midnight and then watch the weather channel and go to bed.
SleepyWitch
08-22-2007, 02:18 AM
wow, mkhockenberry, sounds like a very busy day!
kilted, I wish I had a decent job like you :)
applepie
08-22-2007, 02:22 AM
wow, mkhockenberry, sounds like a very busy day!
kilted, I wish I had a decent job like you :)
I had to laugh after I saw everything that is included in a normal day for me. That doesn't even take into account the days I have to run errands and such. I'm thinking I should print it out for my husband to see. Maybe have him live a week in my shoes:D Then he can quit teasing me about the "ease" of being a stay at home mother:lol:
aabbcc
08-22-2007, 10:02 AM
This is actually directly taken from my journal, but there is no date - it was sometime in the July. A typical summer-break day when I am not on some travel, the only exceptional thing about it was the unplanned dinner with father (but always something exceptional comes out, so it is hard to choose totally "average" day).
6.30 - An early awakening due to, finally, having had a decent all-night sleep. The evening before I returned home from a long travel and, for a pleasant change, went to bed as early as a decent child should do. :D
Got out of the bed, uncurtained the windows and opened them, letting fresh air in the room, put on Vivaldi (Winter, my current favourite :)), drank a glass of water with lemon and did my morning stetching routine (roughly fifteen minutes long).
6.50 - Went to the kitchen, put on a water to boil, and returned to my room in order to get dressed. The typical morning routine in the kitchen, dressing, and meanwhile preparing tea (my drug :D usually I start a day with green tea) and letting it to cool off.
7.10 - Bringing a cup of tea to my room, by the way drugging myself with its beautiful smell, thinking what to start my day with. Sipping tea, slowly, whilst staring at my little personal library. And the winner was - che sorpresa! - Dante. Recently I have been reading a lot of Paradiso. So I take De Santis, and the entire Commedia, and that book of illustrations inspired by motivi danteschi. Of course, it is morning and I always end up staring more at illustrations than actually reading, but, sipping tea, thinking about big questions of life (:D), skimming Paradiso and De Santis, I slowly begin my day. Meanwhile I also change music.
7.45 - Breakfast time. Eyes still filled with heavenly illustrations and words, I almost fall over some tiresome Earthly thing in the hall on my way to the kitchen. I come to the kitchen, contemplating what I should eat whilst I am putting a cup in the dishwasher. Finally I decide I am too lazy to eat something "concrete", so I play with knife and some random fruit trying to make a fruit salad. Of course I am too lazy to do that properly, and I am so slow in doing things because my head is still filled with verses (meanwhile I pass from Dante onto Leopardi, reciting him to myself in my mind :D), so I end up eating quite "minimalistic" breakfast. Nevermind, not that I care ;)
8.10 - Having cleaned the mess in the kitchen, I prepare myself for meeting with a friend for "morning coffee" (that is, coffee for him and another tea for me - to each their drug) and going to the library with him afterwards. I braid my hair, and thank God that my face is clean enough not to need any make up today. I hate make up, and I am probably amongst rare 17-year-old girls to say so ;)
8.30 - after a very short walk, I meet a friend who is already waiting for me in caffé, and find out that he had already ordered our drinks. Whilst we exchange friendly kisses in the cheeks and the usual "how are you"s, waitress brings his (strong, Turkish) coffee and my Ceylon. We take out our books and begin one of our pseudo-intellectual discussions wrapped with coffee, tea, smoke of his fine cigarettes which changes his form when I look at him through it, and the usual morning hurry of the metropolis around us. Not that we care, we are the still ones in that hurry, the world hurries around us and we argue... about Kundera (which we both discovered this summer), about Schiller, about his plans on post-graduate study of philosophy (he is about to graduate university next year), about Pirandello, about current events in the world, somewhere in-between of our discussions we take newspaper and read them, and minutes and hours pass between we get up and decide to go to the library to change our books.
9.50 - On the way to the library, we still argue about some unimportant things. Then the world before me suddenly goes black, and I get another one of those "you don't eat enough" lectures. I swear to him that I ate in the morning, but he doesn't want to listen to it and insists we eat something by the way, so he buys a few chocolate croissants which we eat on the way to library, which is now very near.
10.15 - in the library, we are returning books and carefully picking new ones. He spends an eternity amongst the Psychology shelves, whilst I play around "his" field of Philosophy. Literature we pick together, always by the way reading excerpts, if not whole chapters, of the books. Overall our library adventure lasts for a while.
11.30 - I look at the librarian with the most "angelic" blue eyes I can have, trying to get her allow me to take double as many books as I am allowed to by the rules of library. It works this time. A friend rolls his eyes on so me of the titles I took (mainly, the collection of fairy tales :D) commenting on what a child I am and laughing.
11.40 - Out of the library, we don't know what to do. He has got some duties, whilst I am free as a bird and on my holidays, so we part. He asks me if I want him to accompany me home, but I say I'd prefer to take a walk. So I do, I take a lenghtier walk, stopping on a few places by the way, and getting all chidishly excited over a new notebook I got :D
12:30 Back home. As usual, nobody is around. I put on Mozart whilst taking off my shoes and compiling a pile of books on my desk, but then I decide I need to listen to something more "worldly" at this moment, so I change music to Pyx Lax. Then I figure it was a bad idea because I am being eaten by the pains of remorse because I never study Greek, and I remind myself that I am off to Greece in September. I cast away the thought of how it would be advisable to study Greek, and indulge my whimsical fits of sudden desire to read Mann. I put water to boil, because I cannot imagine anything without a cup of Divine Drink, and read whilst preparing tea. Rosehip/hibiscus this time, with just a few drops of lemon. So I read, and listen to the music.
14:00 - Father calls, would it not be nice if you joined us for dinner, Nastja? I am here with my colleagues, restaurant... Macché ristorante, papa... non mi va di mangiare... non ho fame... sto leggendo un romanzo, sai... Then the usual comments of how "you do nothing but read" and his insisting on that dinner with his business colleagues, which is at 4 pm. I consult the watch, figuring out I still have some time. So I finally make him happy by accepting.
14:15 - I take a book of fairy tales trying to escape the dreaded dinner. Then a friend calls, asking me about my plans for tonight. No plans. Perfect, you'll go out with us to this new place we discovered, another friend is bringing his cousin from England... Gah, whatever. Ended the conversation I go take a quick shower, thinking what I did to everyone who doesn't leave me in my santa pace today. But it is always like that, always something comes up, some dinner, somebody's cousin, some concert, some something to ruin my plans of calm day spent reading. I sink in the waters of self-pity whilst picking a dress. Excellent, the red one, semi-serious. And fine, mascara, but nothing more than that. As said, I hate make-up.
15.00 - last check if I look alright before going out.
15.50 - Coming to the restaurant, seeing my father amongst a bunch of unknown men. Putting on a smile of a well-raised child, which must leave a weird impression with that so adult-like outfit. Then the boring procedure of "how are you"s, "you look so like your mother"s, "so, what are you going to study at university"s, "have you got a boyfriend"s, "oh, you look so lady-like"s and other boring things people say when they don't know what to say, intervowen with typical business conversations. I spot a son of one of my father's colleagues, poor creature, who was also forced to join this dinner and share my tragic fate.
16.30 - Bored to death, and sick of excessive quantities of the food served. I eat only fish with vegetables, and get lost in my thoughts. From time to time I get asked some expectable, stupid questions by the people who are next to me, and equally expectable comments. I refuse wine, which they indulge themselves with after the dinner, and look for an opportunity to ellegantly disappear.
17.10 - Out, on the not so fresh, but still air, in freedom.
18.00 - Home, finally. I change my clothes to something less "lady-like" (:D) and turn on Mozart's Requiem. Put water for tea, make mint tisane instead, and return to my intellectual pleasures of reading. Sometime in-between I also log on the internet.
20.30 - A quick preparation to go out with friends. Change clothes, black dress, let my hair be free in its great lenght, self-pity again, because I so feel like going to theatre tonight. I think how many weeks have passed since the last time I was in theatre. Three, four? Gosh. I come to conclusion that I urgently must go to theatre, and I ask my father to find something nice we could go together to. He agrees, asks me for how long I plan to stay out. I have no idea. Will sleep over at a friend, I say. Alright take care of yourself. Yes, I will. You look awesome in that dress, by the way. Thanks, dad. Have fun, and don't drink. I never drink, dad, maybe a drop or two of rum in tea.
Before leaving I drink vitamine C, and take a few with me in my purse. Just in case I must stay awake longer than expected.
21.15 - Meeting with my friends, exchanging kisses, meeting that new English guy who crept into our company for tonight. So, we go out together.
21.50 - In a pub, together round a huge table. Per Lei, signorina? Tea with rum.
22.00 - The beginning of a chat. I am, as always, the youngest amongst my friends. And I always lose on cards, and somebody takes them out to play. And I am in pair with that new guy. Oh well, we are so going to lose, I think. But we don't, the guy actually has some strategy. I like his accent. We chat about all sorts of things, he studies English at university, which is a signal for me that he likes literature. Soon everybody ends up discussing literature, great for me. Of course, themes soon melt into other stuff, and I end up chatting about universities and school systems with the Englishman, as I call him, because I already managed to forget his first name.
23.30 - Second drink for them, but I do not feel like taking anything more. We all end up in hot discussion of world politics and the usual "apocalypse is near" conclusions, and we go on, and on, and talk, until we have nothing more to say, then we fall into the silence, listening to the music and watching the world go by, contemplating our miserable little lives and the absurdity of all that long into the night...
SleepyWitch
10-08-2007, 11:58 AM
wow, I loved your detailed description, Anastasija
here's another one of mine (today). not exactly the most typical day either, but not as lazy as the last one i described.
7.30. got up, breakfast
9.30 left house to catch train to Erlangen
10.00 picked up books from library
10.30. visited my boss and gave a brief report of a conference my bf and me went to (about English around the world); gave him the handouts to copy.
renewed some books at the English library, had a chat with library assistant, brought my ex-boss a book she'd ordered
12.30 lunch at refectory in Nuremberg (after a trainride from Erlangen)
13.00 got some books and audiobooks at Nuremberg public library
14.00 bf and me did some grocery shopping on the way back home
14.00 up till now: corpus research for my graduation paper... i mainly clicked about some documents I'd saved and doublechecked some stuff. very mechanical
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