Okay, I guess I need your help - again. You don't happen to have any recommendations for mp3-players, do you? I know it sounds weird and awfully retarded, but I don't have an mp3-player yet - or more exactly the one I got as a present once never worked at all.~_~ And except for long trips in the train or plane or wherever else, I never felt like I desperately needed one until now, I haven't been in that walk-around-with-earplugs-for-24/7-per-week-phase since high school where the cool kids still had Discmen after all. But now I have been fancying for one for a while now - and funnily enough, the main reason why I want one NOW is because of my comprehension exam on friday next week. And I feel desperate for listening to japanese radio shows, radio dramas, whatever, for as much time as I can afford now, and staying near my laptop (my only source for music for years) isn't a serious option comprehension-wise. (And of course, I wouldn't mind listening to music as well as soon as that exam is over...;))

When I want a new electronic toy, I want a really good one, no less. Especially because, yeah, I did mention that the last USB-stick mp3-player never worked at all, don't want to risk that again. I'm currently fancying the ipod nano because a friend of mine told me that other players often weren't able to display Chinese (or Japanese) characters, and although my japanese (or chinese. or anything not roman letters involving) playlist isn't exactly that big yet, but it might grow a lot beginning from september after all. And ipod nano because I was under the impression that ipod shuffle doesn't display anything at all...?
Do you possibly have any alternatives you can warmly recommend me, or is ipod not only scarily popular and expensive but teh very best indeed? Any kind of help or personal rec is very welcome as I want to go shopping tomorrow at the latest.:-\

...or in English: "Great, Someone Else Is Doing The Work".

Which is why I don't like the kind of work you're supposed to do as a team, especially not if your final mark depends exclusively on your common effort. And you're stuck with a team member that you have to remind multiple times in two weeks that he shouldn't forget about the translation we have to turn in next week on tuesday at the latest! Which is an awful lot of work because this translation is in the first place a transcription of a short video, where the guy who is talking not only uses a broad variety of honorific language (yes, in Japanese of course), which is always difficult to understand per se, but also speaks like it were a speed contest. And my wonderful partner hasn't even begun yet while I'm waiting for weeks to compare my transcription with his so that I can finally begin with the translation.

And for another translation we have done several months ago and we have to improve and correct before handing it in, I realize that not only hasn't he corrected that many former mistakes, but that his style, grammar and spelling are simply horrifying, and I'm saying this as a person who isn't exactly perfect in French either! Huzzah for correcting both of our versions to create a final common translation!

Why, yes, I am frustrated, why do you ask?

And no, this entry doesn't have any other purpose than to vent a little of my anger because I don't have the time to go outside and kick some innocent tree trunks today.~_~

This is not true, this can't be true, this is way too good to be true! I checked the website of the Baphomet's Fluch/Broken Sword/Les Chevaliers de Baphomet fan game out of pure boredom to check on their progress, and what do I read in the news? Another fan game, Zak McKracken 2: Between Time and Space has been finished four days ago!

Zak McKracken. Zak McKracken! IT'S ZAK MCKRACKEN!!!1111:DDDDDDD *bounces around like a super ball*

Don't anyone dare to say that they don't know Zak McKracken, otherwise I'd feel very old. THIS IS PART OF MY SPRINGTIME OF YOUTH, DAMMIT!!! *shakes fist* And when I think that it has only been a week or two ago when I talked about our first pc games with some friends and we became all nostalgic about Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle, Simon the Sorcerer, Monkey Island and last but not least Zak McKracken. Aaah, the good ol' days, when pc games were still pixelized but had so much more spirit than their 3D sequels like Monkey Island 4...^__^

But why, why are they taunting me with that game now when my exams start in mid-May??? This is so not fair!;__; *starts downloading anyway* And if only I had a microwave, I would SO put an egg in it right now, just for the fun to watch how it explodes!

Just a random thought: Cooking is fun!:D

Not for everyday of course, but sometimes, when I want to relax a little and simply take the time to make something different than your average daily food, it's really fun to prepare all the little extras to pour them together in the end, no matter how much time that takes and how many dishes I have to clean afterwards. And then, the best part, is to set the table, pour yourself a nice aperitif, while the salmon and spinach lasagna bubbles in the oven and your whole room smells nice. It's the first time I make myself a salmon lasagna and I can't wait to know whether it's tasty or not.^__^
Like my aunt told me, cooking can be relaxing. Especially because you use all of your five (or maybe even six) senses: your hands of course, your eyes, but also your nose, your tongue and your ears (to listen whether the water is boiling, if the food in your stove seems to bubble too much and therefor you need to reduce the heat...) I'm not really a good cook yet, and I almost never came to cook for anyone else than myself before, but I'm looking forward to have - one day - a real kitchen with all the place and tools I need to invite lots of people and to cook for them.^__^

That's all. My lasagna is ready. Have a nice day, and thank your for your attention.:D

That's it I guess. I'm now officially into holidays, for two weeks.
Well, to be honest, I haven't done anything for uni for a while now, especially this week where I struggled anytime I had any homework to do and got done nothing at all in the end, plus I missed a few classes and went to uni only to meet with my tandem partner. Partly because I'm still sort of ill (still trying to break through without getting really ill after all, this is so tiresome!), partly because I didn't have any motivation left. But that's okay, my program for today is to clean up my room, do the laundry and maybe some cooking, and then movies, Naruto, writing fanfics, going out for the walk, sleep as much as I want... you name it, and this for the whole week-end.♥ And I won't even think of my homework! WOOT!
I suppose I'll go into exam mode anytime soon though to catch up all the work I haven't finished those past weeks, but that's also okay. That will mean less time on the internet and the such, but I hope a stricter working schedule will motivate me for the exams that will begin in mid-may, everything will be fine!:)

( Speaking of Naruto... )

( Also, dear Bleach-Fandom )

Finally, I bought the air tickets for China a few minutes ago. Which merits a post on it's own and a positive Thumbs Up! My mother and I will leave july 11th for Beijing and return to Germany on august 1st, that will give us about 3 weeks to discover Beijing, Xian and the terracotta army (this has probably been the most important dream for a journey my mother had like... forever), probably also Hong Kong and another region whose name I can't remember while writing this.^^; Anyway, this will be so cool! But I guess you won't be able to escape a lot more details when the time has come anyway... *eg*

Not so cool: I've been a grave victim of spring fever these past weeks. Plus the little virus that the physician discovered in my throat last time I went to see her a few weeks ago although I didn't feel any throat ache at all tried to make itself noticeable. Tried. I never fell really ill, instead I felt groggy and drained and my throat ached for a whole week now, same for the cold that tries to break through but doesn't for real for some odd reasons. As if I ever needed that. Give me one or two days of fever and then let me go, dammit!

...and that resulted in almost not working at all for maybe two weeks now. *headdesk* Instead I stared at my homework, the homework stared back at me, accusingly so, but was never to be done. Great. I'm so glad that some of my friends told me they had the exact same problem right now, that helped me to feel a lot better. Has anyone else a total lack of motivation to work, spontaneous depressions for two or three days and you never know from where those came from anyway? Or you feel just soooo tired and that won't go away never mind how much you sleep? *yaaawns* Yeah, talk from the devil.

Naaah, one more week and I'll have two weeks of exam preparation time holidays, I just have to finish my homework for this week. And try not to watch more Naruto or read more fanfics because I can't concentrate on anything anyway.~_~

Did this entry have a point? I'm sure I intended to give it one in the beginning. But using my brain is such a demanding task in my actual state...=_= I'd love to crawl in my bed SO BADLY now and sleep for a whole week or two, non-stop. A girl can dream, eh?

Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum 18. Geburtstag, rhagi!♥


Ich wünsche dir alles alles Gute, viel Erfolg bei deiner Matura, Glück im Leben und... nein, nicht einschlafen, ich hör schon auf! *g* Wie auch immer und ohne wie deine Oma klingen zu wollen, aber ich bin trotzdem gespannt zu hören wie es sich anfühlt eines Morgens aufzuwachen und festzustellen, dass man plötzlich über Nacht volljährig geworden ist. Tolles Gefühl, oder eher völlig unspektakulär?XD
Ich hoffe du hast schön gefeiert oder feierst noch, egal ob im kleinen oder großen Kreis und lässt dich schön verwöhnen. *g*
Gooott, und wenn ich dran denke, dass ich dich schon seit fast vier Jahren kenne...;>_> *fühlt sich alt*



Dein Geschenk wirst du zu meiner großen Schande aber leider erst mit ein paar Tagen Verspätung bekommen, ABER: Die Fic existiert inzwischen! Sie braucht nur noch einen Schluss, einen cooleren Titel und einiges an Korrektur, und vielleicht etwas mehr Slash.~_~
Während ich dabei bin und noch ein paar Sachen ändern kann, hast du da irgendwelche besonderen Wünsche, was den Slash-Gehalt angeht? Derzeit beschränkt sich das nämlich eher auf deutliches UST, aber ich kann versuchen noch mehr einzubauen wenn du möchtest.:)
Und ja, ich weiß, ich hatte ein Jahr Zeit und hab's nicht rechtzeitig gebacken bekommen, es tut mir wirklich Leid deswegen, auch wenn ich die Schuld größtenteils leider ganz unoriginell aufs RL schieben muss, vor allem was die letzten Monate angeht. Aber dieses Mal existiert sie immerhin...^^; *duck*

Naruto Anime, I have few complaints against you.

First, you are too thrilling. I can't do any homework if you won't stop making me want to know so badly what's happening in the next episode.

Second, you may be thrilling in whole, but your flashbacks and key scenes replays? Are not. They're annoying. They make me want to throw my laptop out of the window at times. They make me think that their only purpose is to fill more viewing time. You could have spared at least two complete episodes without repeating yourself over and over and over again, and the fights wouldn't last at least three eternities each either.

Third, I didn't want to ship SasuNaru (or NaruSasu, really, I couldn't care less about that), for serious. I mean, hey, it's mainstream and I like my weird pairings, it's almost boring to ship a pairing that everyone else ships. And I'm sorry to say that, but your SasuNaru fandom has a bad reputation as far as I can tell.
This does not mean that all fans of this pairing are crazy or bad or whatever, it's just that some of the crazy ones are very loud and end far often as a wank feast on Fandom wank, I can tell so far. Which is a pity. Because, why, oh why do Naruto and Sasuke have to behave like the other one were the only other being in their own little world most of the time? Yeah yeah, I know I know, Naruto likes his "Sakura-chan" and Sasuke doesn't stop to think about his brother, but honestly? Except for words? Both of them are only looking and caring for each other, every other person becomes almost non-existent when they go into Rival Mode again.
And then... there was episode 16. Where Rival Mode gained a lot more obvious meaning than just "I just look at you because you're my rival and that's it". Dammit. That episode definitely wasn't fair at all for someone who didn't want to ship you!Uh, recs anyone?

Fourth, let's talk about Sakura. Other than a lot of people it seems, I do not hate Sakura. I have probably been very lucky that the first time I saw her was in her fight against Ino, where she definitely kicked asses! If I had followed the right order of episodes right from the beginning? I would probably hate her. So fortunately I knew that she wouldn't stay that obnoxious pink grrly girl for long, like she was introduced in episode 3.
But still, I'm really annoyed at the way she is represented, even though she isn't the bitch of episode 3 anymore. Did you ever notice that we never saw her fighting before (that's before episode 18 for me)? Yeah, it's great to tell us that she had the best marks ever in ninja academy, that she can use her chakra in the most efficient way ever, that she doesn't need to practice because she gets the idea right from the first try, but I'd love to see her doing a few more things than just stay in the background and admire Sasuke and Naruto fighting, or covering someone even though we know that covering them won't change a thing if ever she was being attacked. They're a 3-person team, so why on earth are the only ones working as a team only Sasuke and Naruto? Why is she always left outside, is never involved in their plans and has no clue whatsoever what kind of strategy they intend to do???
Seriously, Sakura deserves more than just being an annoying and very useless caricature of a love-sick teenager girl, including the pink color and everything that makes clichés squee with glee. Because otherwise I might start to think she's nothing more than a trick from her creator to make also girls read a shônen manga, with no other utility than to make fangirls happy. And that thought is most disturbing!

Fifth, dear Naruto. Stop saying Dattebayo all the time. You know the english comic strip where everybody (and especially Sasuke) get annoyed because you say "Believe it!" all of the time? Same in Japanese. I am annoyed. (But then I'm also very delighted because I finally begin to understand a lot of what they're saying, and I don't even pay that much attention to subs exclusively as before anymore!♥ Better late than never, eh?)

Sixth, while we're at it, stop being stupid, dear Naruto. And to say stupid things. See, I haven't seen Sasuke emoing over his brother for a few episodes now, but you never fail to say or act stupid even once. I still like you very much, but for heaven's sake, I can't wait to see if your future and more mature self in Shippûden has improved in that matter!

Seventh, uuuh, Kakashi, please use your ninja dogs more often. I like your ninja dogs.:)

Eight, I should go and finish some work now so that I can watch a few more episodes later today...;>_>

Ninth, work faster, torrents!

And tenth, why don't I have a Naruto icon by the way? I'm sure I had a few some while ago... And I want a Gai Thumbs-Up icon, including breaking waves in the background and Shining Teeth™! Badly!

Aaaargh, hab's gestern vor lauter sinnlosem rumemoen vergessen!^^;

Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag nachträglich, Styko!♥


Dieses Mal ohne kitschigen Glitzer. Wenn du trotzdem kitschigen Glitzer haben möchtest, hole ich das natürlich sofort nach.;)


Other than that? I decided to ignore today's change to summer time. Because I can not. Otherwise it would be way too late now for me to still feel that totally drained...=__= *wants to crawl back to bed again*

Okay, I think it's time to say good night and baibai for a few days now. I'm going to crawl to bed right now, read the Spirou comic I bought today ♥, and I won't go anywhere near Livejournal tomorrow. For this reason, in case anyone still missed that entry. I'll still check my emails though, or at least until my mother arrives from Germany to pick me up for the week-end.
And then... I'll be away until monday anyway, somewhere in the Normandy at my late grandparents house, ô the joy. I hope the heaters will work while we're there, otherwise I won't be able to turn back online at all, you can't type or even move the mouse with frozen limbs after all.^^; But it may be for the last time I'll ever stay there over night, so I might just as well enjoy the last nostalgic moments of the back-torturing mattresses. *wry grin*

Good night, behave while I'm gone, and take care that SUP won't break the internets once for all while I'm away.^^;

Ah, and in case anyone is interested in reading that, Happy Eastern of course!:)

I want to put the copypasta of my latest brother's email in here. I must admit to my greatest shame, I haven't been seriously watching any news for almost a week now, and I usually rarely take the time watch more than two news channels per day (Euronews for a global world view and BFM tv to know what's going on in France), and let's not even talk about buying a newspaper like the Frankfurter Allgemeine and actually read it. That's why, well, this came quite as a shock to me:
(By the way, as some of you might know or not know, my brother is studying economics and chinese in Germany, but he has been an exchange student in China for more than one and a half year now, and for the moment he's in Kunming in Yunnan, the south-west of China.)

( Cut for lenght )


And now I'm going to watch the news on tv and see if I can take some time to read the papers. *sighs and ogles at her homework*

There are also news on the LJ board, but I'll just link you to read them by yourself in the the_lj_herald and the ljspeaks comms, I'm not in the mood to even scowl at what those jerks are finding as sad excuses concerning their actions those last days.


And by the way, feel free to link and or to spread the word if you want to. I can't guarantee being capable of involving in long political discussions, but I'm still interested in spreading the word.

I originally wanted to write how good I felt today.
I wanted to write that I feel so very light and free because I have done all the translations for this week and I can now finally relax a little. Not that I don't have any homeworks left of course, but it's just way more relaxed now.
I wanted to write how much I enjoyed finally being able to walk to university instead of taking the urbain train, I've been ill long enough.
I wanted to describe how beautiful the new walking tour to university I took today was, with splendid old parisian houses everywhere, and how amazing the rays of sunlight were on those buildings even though it was that cold I had to snuggle in my favorite scarp again.
I wanted to tell you how much I missed to have the time and energy to spend almost two hours preparing my lunch, yummy japanese chicken curry rice!♥
And just wanted to write how much in general I liked the day today.

Instead, I will just have to annoy you once more with an angry rant. And because I'm still that utterly speechless, I will just link to the posts in question:

First of all, this post in ljspeaks for a very good overview of what's very very wrong with SUP. And if you're still not nauseated yet, Here you go for the complete version, translated from Russian.

I am still speechless. I have absolutely no idea what I should say. I still can't stop shaking my head in disbelief, that users, never mind whether they have never dropped a single cent to support the site financially, watch ads or have directly paid for their right to stay and enjoy their time here, some of them for lots and lots of years, are called "the enemy". Because they dare not to be happy with whatever the god-like owners of this site are doing in the past, present and future. And express their unhappiness with acts of terrorism, like actively trying to destroy the business, blackmail them with a strike threat and... yeah. I'm beginning to wonder why they didn't just ban permanently everyone how had the bad idea to leave a comment on the last news post to express this criminal unhappiness.

Once again, I will not leave LJ now and today. My paid account will still last for a while now (and now I'm not only regretting that I renewed it only recently, but literally slapping myself for that now!), so unless they kick me out, I'll stay for that while. And try not to lose hope that miracles may happen after all. But I think I'm going to mirror my lj probably on InsaneJournal anytime soon, because that's what everyone seems to recommend most at the moment, or in case I find another blogging service that's even better create another backup journal. It's not only that I don't want to give LJ any single more cent, but I don't want to stay here either for any longer time than necessary if users (customers!!!) are called the enemy and that they fucking don't care whatever we think or say as long as we don't behave like happy little sheep who won't follow the sheppard or the sheepdogs blindly and no with not one single meeeeh of criticism.

I don't know if some of you might think I'm overreacting. As a disclaimer, I will once more repeat that I think it's a perfectly valid business decision to make new accounts ads-only unless paid. I hate it, but it's their business, it's their decision, they can do whatever they want. But what infuriates me is the way they're treating their custome... no, wait, the little internet parasites that are lucky enough to be tolerated here - as long as they say yes and amen to every change (whether for the good or bad, no, scratch that, there is no bad since everything is for the good) and certainly don't protest when they don't like a thing.

And in the (unlikely) case anyone missed my last post, here be the post about the strike.

Second post for today (ignore me, I'm not really here sitting at my computer, no really!), but I thought this was definitely worth posting:

Ganked from tanrien, although I see that there are more posts coming from other people as well now...?

For one day, Friday, March 21, make no posts. Make no comments. Let there be NO new content added to LJ. SUP obviously does not realize that Basic users have given something of value to them, that it is content that drives the site. So, for one 24-hour period, from midnight GMT to midnight GMT, let's see how many people we can get to pledge to contribute NO CONTENT. This will create a permanent downward spike in the daily-posts statistics, a permanent reminder of the power of the userbase. Full information at The Fox's Den. (Also have a look at other related entries in her journal.) SPREAD THE WORD.

Of course the best thing to do would be not even to load any livejournal page, to ignore lj for the whole day. Because viewing ads also is a form of activity, especially the one bringing money, eh?

I hope that schattenstern doesn't mind if I link to her excellent summary of last and this years' lj wanks? I'll delete it otherwise.


I'm posting this because, yes, I'm pissed off with lj. I was pissed off last year as well, but both for the Strikethrough and Boldthrough I still hoped that I would never be concerned personally, it was more a general anger for the way 6A treated the users. Because, hey, it's their company after all, they bought LJ, they can do ads as much as they want, they can ban users if they don't like having their stuff on their site yadda yadda yadda.
But. They can't hide things and hope that no one will ever notice, they can't not answer to uncomfortable questions, they can't treat their customers like complete retards.
And SUP seems to be doing possibly even worse. If you don't know what I mean, just follow the links or read the latest news posts, or ask me if you still don't know what I mean.
And, okay, I will admit, I'm also majorly pissed off because they disabled the option for new basic accounts, I fucking hate plus accounts, pardon my french there. If someone has no problems to see ads on their journal, that's fine for them, I'm sure lots of people don't mind, so why should I? Unfortunately, it's not their business alone. That's why ads on other peoples' journals? Okay, I don't mind, I don't need to see them anyway. Spying on other peoples' journals? You'll wonder why I don't like that at all...

The legendary conbini*
let's go search for it
the legendary conbini
let's go and search it

In this wide world
in this ordinary house
the bread of courage and
the tin of wisdom
that's what they sell

The clicketyclick of life
the stew of wonders
and don't forget the magic eraser

And while we decipher the map of adventure
it's the begin of the quest of heroes
let's go search for
the legendary conbini


The conbini of heaven
let's go search for it
the conbini of heaven,
let's go and search it

Somewhere in this world
in this ordinary house
the bubble gum of force and
the chocolate of healing
that's what they sell

Flying socks
Mystery panties
and don't forget the fireworks of ice-cream

Pour of the hot water of adventure three parts
and it's ready, the instant carriage

Let's go and search for it
the legendary conbini


*Short for convenience store

For more laughing (at the original song), please download here (the link under "Play for PC")


And now that I've had my good share of a laugh, I should kick my butt and translate the (less fun) rest of my homework for tomorrow and maybe rearrange the song text a little more yet. I'm sure there are also a few grammar and translation mistakes left, but it's still fun as it is now I think. *g*

I want this print. Badly. And this one too.
And while we're at it, I wouldn't mind this one as well. Or this one, this here and (SPOILER) that one, although he's not quite pale enough in my opinion.
And even though I'm wondering what the hell the wolves are doing there, I wouldn't mind this painting either...

*goes swimming around a little more in her little puddle of drool before going back to work*


Will reply to comments later (probably not before tomorrow or in two days, at the latest on thursday), I came back home only a few minutes ago from discussing the translation for tuesday with my team partner at McDonalds (because spreading out sheets, dictionnaries and laptops between Royale Deluxe burgers and french fries is so much fun &hearts) and will have to do the rest now. *sigh* And because translations alone are not fun enough, I just heard that our kanji exam isn't supposed to be monday in a week, but probably this tuesday!
One word: Shit!

Has everyone seen the newest news entry? I know several of you guys on my friendslist don't read them, that's why I'm writing this probably gratuitous ranting entry.

The news in a nutshell: There will be no more new basic accounts (since yesterday or two days ago) and no one from SUP had the mere intuition that it might be a good idea to tell LJ users before doing so. Because "it wouldn't affect existing users anyway" so to speak. The best part? Like 6A, they just pretend that they're merely doing what the mysterious entity aka The Users want and welcome. *headdesks*
All the basic accounts created before will still be basic (we'll see how long that statement will last...), every new account will either be plus or paid. I'm curious when I will have to see the first ads on my paid account though...;>_> Viva la Adblock!

No, seriously, I more and more thinking that renewing my paid account in december was a huge mistake! You might say that my accounts and communities are safe (for now), my paid account will still last one year and a month (don't ask...) yadda yadda yadda.
Except that creating new communities with a plus account? Not cool. And I'm certainly not willing to pay for communities when I don't need any more features for them.
Creating an extra journal with ads for my travel year in Japan like I intended to at first? NOT COOL AT ALL! I wanted to create a new journal because I wanted to give the link to my family and non-fandom friends and I don't really want them to read my fandom entries and fanfics. If they do so because they found them on their own, fine, I'm not paranoid at that point, but I don't want to make their search easy like that by giving them the links.
The point is, I wanted to pay for this new journal anyway. Call it silly, but I wanted to add a new mood theme, some beautiful icons, have a nice layout... etc., you get the picture. But I wanted to do this because of my own decision, not because I have to avoid ads at all cost! I don't whether everyone can understand what I feel, but I refuse to pay for an account under such conditions, it takes away all the great feeling when you decide you make yourself a nice gift with a paid account. Or that's what I felt the day when I decided to upgrade this account here anyway...
Of course I could use my current (totally dead) japanese account sayonakidori for that purpose, that one's still basic and the choice would be completely mine whether to upgrade it or not. But right now, I'm angry enough with LJ not to want to do anything like that! Sooo, I know we had that discussion before, but of all the LJ clones or other blog services, which one would you recommend me? Most of the clones have ads and I don't like ads, because while I have Adblock and won't be bothered by ads possibly ever again (have I mentioned how much I love this feature?♥), my family and friends who don't know anything about Firefox and Add-Ons will have to bother. And if this block gives the possibility to add your own mood-themes and several icons, that would just be the greatest thing ever! Even if I have to pay for that, as long as it's not too expensive of course.


Grraaaah, and now I should start to finish my translations, I have until this afternoon to do so.>_< And although I had the whole week to do that, of course I got sick since monday and couldn't concentrate enough on any day to finish them any earlier. *sigh*

One more post for today, because I obviously can't sleep even with that stone-like weariness. Or more exactly, I can't really shake off that weird feeling I have since my cousin's wife drove me back to Paris from the Normandy while listening to several radio plays for the kids.

Does anyone know The Little Prince? I guess so, it's one of the most famous books on this planet and short enough to quash the excuse that this takes too much time to read.
How did you feel when you read it? Or even better, how did you feel in case you listened to the radio play in any available language?
I don't know how to describe this... It's a wonderful book, but listening to the play caused a weird mix of happy sadness in me. Happy because of several beautiful scenes, sadness for obvious reasons for those who know the story. And it's not a good feeling in this particular case. In fact, it makes me want it to Go Away NOW! Pretty please. Please please please?

Oookay, and how can I forget about this right here right now so that I can find some sleep??? Maybe I should listen to one of the Bleach drama cds instead, though it seems like a sort of sacrilege to me to use Bleach crack to counter The Little Prince...Oo;

OH NOOOOEEEEZ! I just noticed a few minutes ago that my very favorite streaming site, Stage6, has been shut down on february 28th or 29th. Why, oh why???D: *drama*

Ok, I've seen a few reasons with some googling, on the one hand the official reason that the site was way too expensive (1 million USD bandwidth per month???), on the other hand the unofficial reason that there was too much drama amongst the owners. Or something like that.
Anyway, this is serious business for me that Stage6 doesn't exist anymore, they had the best quality ever and a lot of highly interesting series/movies/anime I've been watching lately, and while Veoh seems to accept .divx-movies as well now, I'm still not convinced at all by their quality and often annoyed by their wannabee-exclusiveness.D:

*makes some more drama while making a notice to delete all her Stage6 bookmarks at occasion*


On another topic, I want to give a short notice that I won't probably be very active in answering any comments or posts this entire week, I'm sorry for every past comments I still wanted to answer. Yesterday has been a very tiring day because first my flight to Paris had been canceled, then the substitute flight had quite a long delay, same as the urban train back home etc. Ô Joy. And today I had to go to my grand-mother's house in the Normandy because we had some sort of a family distribution party for the legacy. Well, the party was mainly because of the picnic in the garden (quite cold, but outside was still warmer than inside of the house because the heaters had only been turned on when we arrived this morning and didn't really warm up the rooms for the whole day *freeeeeze*). The distribution was more like "You sure you don't want to take some more of this stuff?" I'm glad my family isn't greedy and grasping at all, we do rather fight each other to force the others to take more, but then... there's so much stuff in that house that hasn't any value at all. And I refused to take a lot of stuff anyway, especially furniture, because I don't even know where I will decide to live when I finished university one day. *sigh* Anyway, I'm glad I could finally return home, take of my jacket for almost the first time today and have a hot shower to warm me up again.

Uhm, yeah. I get off the track. I have a few more stupid translations to do for this and next week, and since I haven't been able to work today at all (aside from some stupid attempts to work for my translation in the urban train this morning), I'll have to catch up tomorrow until next week's tuesday (march 18th). Holidays? Never heard, that word has a funny sound. Anyway, I hope that I will have a little less stress as soon as this big translating and explaining in front of the class thingy for next week is done, I should really have a few other things done than just homeworks, homeworks, homeworks. And maybe even go out, do some obligatory and very necessary shopping... but that's asking too much I guess.~_~