Experiences Nighty made once again while repressing more urgent matters going on retail therapy. (Also known as 'buying books'. Who needs clothes anyway...?)

( Nighty also likes to write longish texts that require lj-cuts. )

[/procrastination end]

*exhales*

The resume of the plan for my report (on the work I'm doing in Japan on my master's thesis) is done, and even one whole day before the deadline. How very uncharacteristic for me, but who am I to complain?@_@ I'd have to check the grammar once again before I send it in, and I'm still really unsure about whether it will be enough to fill the required five pages before end of july, but if I'm honest, I don't even really care for that either anymore. This is a completely gratuitous and unneeded work after all (as it's for the japanese uni and not my french uni), and I don't even have a clue what they'll do with the report in the end, except than to show it to all their friends and comment on how nicely we can write kanji of course, like one of our tutors did recently instead of doing her fu**ing work and correct our mistakes. Nevermind that I'm writing this with a pc.

ANYWAY. Now I can concentrate on learning the grammar and kanji for the nikyû next sunday and it feels GOOD not to have to do all that annoying stuff last minute for a change. Well, except that I still suck at the nikyû stuff of course and have all but five days left, but I can't be completely out of character for everything in the end...

Still working on replying to old comments, I'm really sorry about that, but I currently try to be the less possible on the internet, and especially livejournal. But I haven't forgotten about you guys, honestly.D:

Argh, I'm sorry to haven't been able to reply to most comments yet. For once that my computer did it's work probably, my internet connection completely broke down. And sitting in the same sinking boat with it's best pal the internet, my phone. And apparently, although I tried twice to post via my cell phone, my lj does not like my cell phone. Or my cell phone doesn't like lj, who knows, but in any case it didn't work. ORZ
Seriously, first my ac adapter, then my hard-drive, then the internet... I start to be seriously afraid of what will be next!Oo;

Ok, internet connection is finally back, hence this post, and I'm slowly going to reply to comments now.
And I'd like to emphasize the word 'slowly', I'm afraid. I have four free days starting from today, five days until I have to present the resume of the report about the work on my MA in Japan and I haven't really started yet, one week left to the Japanese proficiency exam... and a month until I have to hand in the report about my MA.
Not to mention that I have to kick my ass to organize my mom's holidays when she comes to Japan in a month (and considering that she wants to go to all kind of different places that are at complete opposite ends of Japan, this is going to be a challenge!) And I should start to send away the first boxes with stuff I won't need anymore.

In other words: FUN TIEMZ! \^o^/

Read: You see me on the internet and I'm not doing any kind of the stuff I'm supposed to do, besides replying to overdue comments? Kick me out. And show no mercy!



P.S. This week's essay I have to write: "Who do I want to marry when I'm all grown-up later, describe the family life you want to have." Good thing I blurted out between gritted teeth while my friends were eagerly watching me for a reaction that I have not the slightest interest to get married in near future, nor in far future if you ask me that now, so our tutor told me that "my future life in general" would be fine too.
Uuuuuh, how old am I again? *stares at her fingers, confused*

Reply to this post, and I will list three or more things I like about you. Then repost to your own journal to spread the love.♥

Snatched from kegom so that I can give her back some of the love she so generously overwhelmed me with. And because I love everybody on my flist period. And want to prove it!~♥

No need to repost this by the way, I'm just happy to be able to give you some love for a change.:D

If only possible of course, to check Wikipedia articles in more than one language. You might notice that occasionally, the differences can be terrifying!

Not so interesting trivia: The German speaking folks are usually way more lazy than the French editors (and not to mention the English speaking people of course, as they have the most detailed articles most of the time it seems.) Go figure. I guess this follows the usual trend that Germans will more often read a text in English than French do and slowly forget about their own language? *scratch scratch*

( More interesting trivia: )

Like to step out of the bathroom (in pajamas), with a towel wrapped around your hair, phone in hand with your mother on the line, and to notice a guy in front of your window, on the balcony of the building opposite to your own.
A guy wearing a motorcycle helmet so that you can't see his face, and who is obviously looking in your direction. And who for once doesn't look away, a bit ashamed, when you start grinning and waving at him to signal him that yes, you did notice and it would be appreciated that he'd stop staring inside someone else's home.
And then starts opening his pants. While still looking at you.




*goes puking all over the place*

Unfortunately for him, he lost, I won! At closing the curtains at light speed, while he was still fumbling with his zipper. He did stroll a little longer on this balcony because in the heat of the moment I failed to close them completely (although he couldn't see me clearly from where I was while I could see him moving) before I corrected my mistake and he finally gave up.
Too bad, I had just told my mother I'd call her back in five minutes so that I could call the guard of the residence. And had I not been on the phone with my mother, I should have opened the window and yell at him in German.
German is a fine language for yelling at people. French can be wonderfully gross too against all popular belief, but I'm real bad at choosing the right tone and vocabulary in French for the maximum yelling effect. And English... he might even understand if I'm unlucky, which takes all the fun of being the rude Gaijin Superwoman.

Fortunately, I'm not grossed out or anything, I've seen my share of exhibitionists in Paris already, although this was the first time it happened to me at home. I'm more angry than anything else, because you always regret not to have reacted like this or that in the heat of the moment. And that the rumor that perverts love to hang out around girls' only residences, steal their underwear from their balcony or stuff like that is true after all, despite us living in near Big Brother-like conditions to "protect" us from those perverts and it doesn't do a thing in the end.
And, of course, that up to this date, I didn't mind that my neighbors could watch me in my room if they wanted to, because they always had enough decency to look away whenever they noticed that I noticed, because I couldn't bear living with closed curtains 24/7 like my African friend did, as in her case, people couldn't stop staring at her! And I'm seriously afraid now that this is one laissez-faire state of mind I won't be able to keep up from now on.~_~

Always when I think that I can't be more frustrated by my laptop, it proves me wrong.
This time the task bar is going all crazy - again. It did that to me a few months back already, completely out of the blue, and while I didn't manage to get it entirely right again, I achieved some damage control at least. Now when I booted my computer today, every open task was displayed twice on the task bar - like last time - and everything pressed in the right corner while the left side of the task bar is completely empty (except for the icons like Firefox, Thunderbird, WMP etc.)
I restarted the computer and at least it doesn't display anything twice anymore, but it's still like this:

( Cut for large size )

Earlier, it was like this, just doubled. Including the little scroll bar next to the open task.
You wouldn't happen to know how to get this fixed? (Read: Avoid that every task aligns on the right side with a scroll bar. And yes, I did try to fix this in the settings, but nothing would work. *sad face*) It's really annoying, and while I got used to it, with the doubled version this morning I couldn't even change the keyboard (to Japanese) anymore, because the icon for the keyboard got completely covered by the tasks and I don't know the shortcuts by heart (and I was too lazy to take the long route through the directory). And yes, I know I fail hard, but bear with me please? (I hope I at least got the vocabulary right...? *furious blush*) I'm thankful for every tip I can get!D:
This, and that my mouse will kill me one day because it confuses 'one click' with 'double click', but I guess I just have to find the energy to re-install the driver software for the mouse for that, like I had to with the touch pad two years ago. Or that's what I hope...?

I'd also love to bother you with a few more desperate rants about how much my classes suck (because this week's classes seemed to be even more full of fail to me, those seem to prove me wrong too each time I think they can't get more stupid), but rejoice, I want to use the last of my spare energy to finish my homework first. And while I don't have that much to do anymore, it might not have been one of my most brilliant ideas to choose Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum" of all novels for a book report in 400 signs after all.Oo;

*stabs her headaches and her circulatory collapse*

[EDIT] I found a freeware that "fixes" the task bar, and it worked!:D At least the task bar is fine again.^_^

I realize once again how much I miss the opportunity to just walk into any library, any bookshop I want, and to be able to buy whatever book I want.
Of course I could do this here too, but as I'm talking mostly about history books at the moment? I admit that I have other priorities than to learn about greek history (as an example amongst others) with japanese books, you can call me on my lack of motivation if you like. I don't even really want to read about greek history in English as it is, and I doubt anyway that they'd have some here, regardless how big some of the English book sections in some bigger book stores are. orz

I miss so many of my books, dammit!

( Long and boring text which resumes in a nutshell: I once used to be a history otaku. )

I R BORED.
And I have a headache. My report for my master's thesis doesn't show the slightest inclination to do itself while I'd be just happy to watch, and so does the grammar or the kanji I have to learn before the 5th of July. Which would be in not even three weeks time.
The Sachertorte is too dry (and wouldn't be comparable to Austria's even if it were the last piece of cake on earth), the cold Caffè Latte Cafe Mocha (not my spelling) disappointing... and I'm too lazy to make real (read: instant) coffee instead.

BUT OTHERWISE, THE WORLD IS JUST FINE. Thank you for wondering!:D

(Hey, I have done all my homework for this week's classes at least... except for the kanji for the kanji test tomorrow. Crap!)
Hmmm, I'm out of ideas which comm I haven't been lurking for hours already, Fandom Wank included. *kicks the stupid Hetalia wank* And don't you dare mention TV Tropes, thankyouverymuch! *growls* Maybe I should try with this Greece philosophical-musing-about-Gods-and-the-World plunny I've had trolling my head since yesterday, despite not having done all the research I wanted to yet. Or have a good day under my bed covers, with potato chips and soda and either my DS or the 3rd KKM novel. Oooh the possibilities...
...and none will help me with the really important stuff I actually should be doing.;__;

brb, writing bad poetry about the "plum" rain season here in Japan

I.. I hate having to call a call-center when I expect them to speak Japanese and Japanese only. Especially when it's about a big problem, like having to pay your flight ticket with a credit card... and it won't work!;_;

I wasn't even half as afraid of it as I usually am, even when it's in my own language. Because I hatehatehate having to call people for business matters. I did it right away, and I didn't even play 2673673847 Solitaire games or browse the web for hours or stare at my phone like it will bite me if try to grab it or whatever I usually do before said phone calls.
And most surprisingly, it worked. I didn't stutter half as much as I usually do (especially since we're still talking about, you know, having to talk to them in Japanese. On the phone. Without any mimic or other body language to help you through), understood almost everything she told me at once, she understood me too as it seems since I got the email to solve my problem right away...

I'M SO FUCKING PROUD OF ME!!!11ELEVEN

And I'd add some glitter to that capslock if only I had the patience to search for the code.

That is all. I should have my plane ticket back to Germany for the 19th of august, with Air China, as soon as I paid the bill at the konbini. Because non-japanese credit cards obviously don't work (Whyyyyyy???) I could have chosen a german website and taken Thai Airways instead, but that would have been more expensive. Which is kind of sad, because I haven't been in Bangkok yet, even if it's just for transit, while I've been in Beijing before, but the flight via Bangkok would have taken 5 hours more anyway. And how stupid is it to "collect" transit airports anyway?oO; *headdesk*

Yes, stupid post is stupid. Sorry to spam you with such trivial matters, but, well, I don't think I have any neighbors I can annoy at this moment, and it sort of might hurt my dignity if I started howling like crazy when the window is open.:D ~♥

Okay, and now I guess I'm going to step away from the computer, try to be all there again and cool down my euphoria while going to the konbini, that way maybe I can get a nice cocktail and raise a toast to this this evening. Hmmm, maybe I should call one of the Swiss whether she's available for a drink tonight...

Why don't I have my YATTAAAA!!! icon anymore? That would have been so much more fitting in this situation.

Anyway, what is the code for the glitter text? I don't mean those fancy glitter fonts and backgrounds you can copy'n paste from other sites, just the basic html code.:)

This time, it's my external hard-drive. Which fell on the floor, not from an impressive height or anything, but suddenly my computer won't recognize it anymore. And as it was plugged in while it fell, the still open folder implied that every single folder I have on this damn thing was empty.

May.. may I cry now? I unplugged it, re-plugged it, twice, thrice, and it's still like it doesn't exist at all, besides from the sound it makes when I plug it in and the little light that confirms that the current is indeed passing. And damn, aside from some music and videos and scanlations and whatnot, I have all my pictures from Japan on this stupid thing! And if all those months and months of pictures are lost... I'm not sure what I'm going to do, besides hanging myself or jumping in front of the Yamanote or something!

Do you happen to know whether there is anything I can do? Anything? Or is there any hope that I can take the hard-drive to a tech-savvy dealer and that they can extract the data I have (had?) on it? I don't care for all the vids and the rest, even if that sucks big timez of course, but if I lose all those pictures forever, I can just as well throw my camera in the waste-bin because I know I won't want to touch it again for a looong while. What should I take any pictures for if I'm going to lose them in the end after all?

Anyway, any kind of help is appreciated right now, I can really use it.D:

brb, freaking out over my lost pictures

Fiiinally, my new ac-adapter cable arrived yesterday! Brought to me by the mother of a girl my mother is tutoring in French, said mother being stewardess for Lufthansa and who had a flight for Tôkyô yesterday. I had to go meet her at her hotel in the middle of nowhere in the Chiba prefecture (which is about more than two hours away from where I live), but I guess when one lives in Tôkyô, you get used to consider two hours of train ride as vaguely normal. I already need more than an hour to cross the city, it just begins to feel really weird when I try to picture where I'd be going with a two hours ride were I still living in my home town in Germany...Oo;
Also I didn't mind eating sushi with her in a nice sushi bar. At all!<3 I just noticed once again that I'm barely used to be with people who know so few about Japan anymore, it's been a looong while since I had to explain - again - that no, you don't eat sushi everyday in Japan, and yes, there are other dishes here besides raw fish. *le sigh*

( You gotta love the randomness: )



Gratuitious random experience of the week:

There is probably no better sandwich in the world than thin orange slices and smoked ham on walnut bread. Although I'm now eager to discover whether avocado/smoked salmon/orange slices may even top this... *is hungry now*

Short update:

My ac-adapter definitely died. Fortunately, one of the Swiss has a Dell as well, so I could charge my laptop, but as I don't want to bother her everyday (although she told me it wouldn't bother her), I'm going to use it only when really necessary or when I'm very bored.
I'm of course not going to wait until I return to Germany after all, although it hurts to pay about 50€ for an ac-adapter when I intend to buy a new computer in august anyway... *sigh* Oh well, shou ga nai as you'd say here, and even though I would have loved to prove that I can survive without a computer for three months, I headdesked hard when I remembered all the small things I need a computer for. And I'm not even talking about music or watching movies (or reading my friendslist), but simply about straight work.
So I just ordered a new ac-adapter a few minutes ago, I hope I'll receive it in two weeks time. As for you who suggested to buy a new one here, unfortunately I already tried that and (unsurprisingly) it didn't work out. The problem (as far as I did understand it [/newb]) is that the current strength here is different than in Germany, and while new computers do adapt easily and without any problem, mine is five years old and won't do it. Which is why I couldn't use my laptop when I first arrived in Japan, I had to buy an adapter for my adapter (argh) first. Which was quite expensive as it is by the way. Oh joy.
Can you tell I'm thrilled?
Oh well, at least I can better concentrate on working on my Japanese instead of my English, which isn't exactly a bad thing. At all. And by "working on my Japanese" I really mean learning grammar... and watching tv and reading manga. Which I haven't done in a long while. And now I just need to remember to learn my kanji and that I have to work on my master's thesis as well and everything would be perfect.^^;

The short notice of the day:
The laptop is now finally broken. Well, actually just the adapter cable is, the computer itself doing it's work bitching and aching like the senile old man it is, but it still works. I've noticed that it got more and more fragile at the base for a while now, but now I'm eventually working on my battery although the cable is safely plugged in. And currently with 44% left.
So if I'm lucky, I will be able to recharge the battery when I will put the laptop back on a stable surface (that isn't my lap) and overcome that loose connection.
If I'm not lucky... I'll have to bear with those 40% until mid-august when I go back to Germany and will finally be able to have a new computer. Because there is no way I'm having anything but a german keyboard, as stubborn as that may sound now. So in case I'm disappearing again for a few months time, I probably won't have jumped in front of the Yamanote, I'll just be short of a computer for a while. orz (Although I'll most likely invest in a few hours of internet cafe anyway, I've got a lot of work to do on a computer after all like writing that dreaded report in Japanese, for a start x_X)

( Also, have some gratuitous ranting about the Detective Conan fandom )

22% left. Ups! Not rereading this before posting, sorry, just for the simple reason I'm not sure when my computer might shut down. It won't last long either way.=_=
Uhm, wish me luck?^^; *hates on her cable*

Also, nostalgic icon is used for nostalgic reasons. While I still have it. Stupid basic account!

Ich liebe diche, muschi.*

This is not the most romantic way to confess your love to someone, trust me on that. Especially not in a slash fic, no really!
I almost miss Ye Olde Days when the worst that would make my toes curl was gratuitous fanthing Japanese, but this even dethrones my favorite Worst Confession Of Love Ever line, the classical declaration of strong romantic feelings for expensive ornamental fish in Japanese before kissing your soon-to-be lover. Now I know that no matter how bad fanthing Japanese can be, there is probably nothing worse than your own language butchered in an otherwise well written fic (even though the kink was definitely not mine). And here I was, thinking I were pretty cool and mellow with fail!German since I started to read Phoenix Wright fanfics... *weeps silently*
And now I'm pondering whether I should leave a nice, but informative comment about this or whether I would probably just be a nitpicking jerk who spoils someone's fun in a kink meme. Probably the latter.;__;

*For those who don't know what the hell the problem is, besides the tiny but mildly sigh-worthy typo ("dich" and not "diche"), the word "Muschi". Means "vagina". And not in the most eloquent wording, if you know what I mean. I for one know for sure that I'd love to break the guy's jaw who utters the word in my general direction, though there are even far more vulgar terms for that out there. Have I already mentioned this was a romantic confession of love? In a slash fic? Yeah, there's not much more to say about that, now is there?


As for your comments, I'll reply to them a little later, I'm sorry about that. I've been pretty much drained those last days (or not at home), and I should already be in bed. Liek ttly nao, for I still have homework to do before my classes tomorrow.=__= *iz a boring McSleepyhead and knowz it*

Radio Holy Roman Empire

brb, laughing my ass off.xD


But first, sleep. Lots and lots of it. A week or two should be fine. =_=zzzZZZZ *crawls into bed, snoring*

I seem to have a new kink.
Again.
Although this one surprised me quite a lot because it came quite suddenly (read: in a few weeks space), out of the nowhere as it seemed, and especially without any warning!

It's... Russian.

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Ahem. You.. wouldn't happen to have any recs for russian songs, now would you? Or alternatively where I could listen to them online, legally if possible? My Last.FM trial period expired about a week ago (I didn't even know it was just a trial period orz), and for some reason I don't feel like paying 3€ (or 3$. or 3£. What the hell of a kind of conversion is that anyway???) for them right now.^^;