Hello there! I thought it was time for a kind of Welcome Wagon.

If you recently friended me please comment here and tell me something about yourself and why you think I am interesting enough to be friended. I will friend back almost everyone if we do have something in common or you take the time to actually talk to me. That's what friends do, right?
Friending might take some time because I'm paranoid I like to read people's entries for a while before adding. You really do not miss much, my contributions to fandom and quite random things will always be public, I mostly f-lock the personal stuff.


Thank you and welcome to this journal.

A happy Saint Nicholas Day to all of you!

'Tis the day of little secret gifts, so go out and make someone smile... this one's from me: David Tennant/Cookie = OTP

I am spamming again, I know, but the OG has Hi-Res promos for the End of Time. St. Nicholas Day is a day early! :D

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IS IT CHRISTMAS YET?!

Useless biologist facts: Ragweed is indeed an invasive species in Europe - a genuine alien! And a very harmful one at that... well, most of them are, but only a handful make you ill directly.

I am a very amused geek... just a bit late to the party.

Now go out and save the world!

I laughed quite a bit. SOMEONE NEEDS TO WRITE THAT FIC!

In other news, Mr. Newton woke from his winter brumination. Clever fellow... he woke up for Christmas, it seems ;)

Because my fic muse needs some love ^^

THE FANFICTION LOVE MEME

Also, I'd like to remind everyone of my Christmas card/gift exchange post as I'll probably start writing this weekend :)

a) DO NOT WANT escaped criminal who's known to hijack cars around my workplace. Although, the poor newsguy freezing in front of the local police station without any news made me lol. Bielefeld isn't that interesting, people. Still, helicopters circling around me all day (AND NOW NIGHT) is not cool.

b) Fuck you, Doherty. Fuck you so many times and then some.

3) - I mean c) David Tennant coin. Uhm... okay? That's on par with underwear and collectable plates, isn't it?

d) DW filming in Croatia - stolen from the OG. I wish I understood that blog entry, but the pictures are awesome on their own as well!

e) The Guild makes me want to play World of Warcraft again - it's scarily accurate.

I should get rid of that bag of FIMO leftovers, it gives me too many ideas. Still better than smoking, though.

So, after the Adipose project* I have now made the next glow-in-the-dark Who monster; a FIMO Ood... it's still in a planning stage (I am really not very good at torsos as you can see), but I like my little prototype ^^

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Not baked yet, because I'm still wondering what do I do with the little man. If you have any suggestions to improve him, please shout out! I have the urge to build him some friends and stick him into a snow globe...



*BTW, did they all arrive safely? If you wanted one, you should've gotten mail from me :)

I just realised that there's only one month left between me and Christmas... and December will be a hell of a ride for me.

So I don't think I'll send out many gifts, I don't really feel up to shopping more than the bare minumum (which is Christmas Cards) - but if you want/plan to send me something (I don't even have a wishlist this time... I'm too busy/drained) I want to reciprocate of course! So: Poll time!

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In other news, in a fit to make the rat do some exercise, I taught him how to climb stairs... I'm not yet sure that was a good idea.

( My wishlist )

Title: On Death and Dying
Fandom: Doctor Who
Spoilers: Waters of Mars
Rating: None
Word count: 5 drabbles with 100 words each. I win.
Notes: Nothing special, really, trying to make some sort of sense of Waters of Mars, I came back to a fic idea I've had for ages: The Doctor vs. the Five Stages of Grief. Unbetaed (and written in a hurry as I was hurtling through all those stages while waiting for for my plane), so any kind of nitpicking or concrit is love.
Fic Masterlist: Here.

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OMG, MUSE IS SO FUCKING AWESOME LIVE!

Ahem. After a night in the crowded arena of the Olympiahalle I am now sick with something that Can't be Swine Flu (I did the inoculation, which was No Fun for 2 days in itself), BUT IT WAS SO WORTH IT. I had my doubts about liking everything they'd play - but they definetly know what works live. Nice mix of old and new stuff (they played Map of the Problematique, which was all I wanted as Uprising was a given) and the light show was awesome. Dom actually said he's never seen a crazier crowd (I bet he says that every night, but still, the Mosh Pit approved) - seriously, I just held onto the BF and tried not to be crushed, but IT WAS SO MUCH FUN. I now own (nearly) all the merchandise and am seriously broke.

And then I came home to the Doctor Who Children in Need 'Special'.

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And now we're going to watch the Star Wars Holiday Special. I'm afraid. I'm VERY afraid.

... I seem to have lost a few friends over the last few months. I mean, there are names missing that I'm pretty sure were in the list of mutual friends. I mean, huh? Didn't even get a notification or anything.

(Cue the dramatic wailing) Was it something I did?

There’s a note written in German fracture on the entry door that states 'University announcements written in Comic Sans Serif are invalid', referring to the smoking ban in the entire building... wtf?


( Anyway, visualising what I thought about Waters of Mars )

I am not making sense. In many, many words. Sorry. Can you tell I've spent my weekend on crowded motorways?

From the book Her fearful symmetry, comes the proof that all great authors seem to be Who fans (Paolini excluded):

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I LOLED.

I came home to the news yesterday night and I couldn't believe it. German National Team Keeper Commits Suicide.

This is just so... so... I lack the words, actually.

So, the 'pure' lemniscate thing is so not working out, mainly because of the detail I'd like it to have, and so 'just' getting that symbol isn't looking great. Great. That's back to square one, then.

Uhm... I know I've asked this so often that most of you must be annoyed by now, but are there artists on my f-list who could draw me something like this or this only with a dragon? That way, with only the outlines I can get it done relatively small but incorporate the lemniscate into the back of it somehow... I'd take a raven in flight as well, but a dragon would be cooler. Help?

... okay, now I spammed enough for a day ;)

Germans don't have many historic events to be proud of, and even today, festivities for the fall of the Wall feel wrong, somehow, because the fateful 9th of November is laced with other, darker history. Hitler's rise to power started on a 9th of November, as did the Novemberprogrome, which is why the 3rd of October was chosen as Unity Day instead.
But still, there's one freezing November night exactly 20 years ago that makes about every German smile, a night everyone remembers where they were and what they did. I was tinier back then, and didn't understand why people hadn't climbed that stupid Wall before, but I still remember those days rustled by the Wind of Change. My father joked about "not having West-Mark" any more on a fair, just to see how many people would boggle. I still boggle today, sometimes, when I realise a friend or a colleague had such a different childhood to me.

Things moved long before it got dark on that day, but it will be forever remembered for the most beautiful blunder in German history, which went something like this:

"Private travel into foreign countries can be requested without conditions (passports or family connections). Permission will be granted instantly (...) Permanent relocations can be done through all border checkpoints between the GDR into the FRG or Berlin (West) (...) That comes into effect, according to my information, immediately, without delay."


And then no one could hold the mass of people back that flooded the checkpoints, Germany was unified and we let Hasselhoff sing on the Wall... make of that what you will.

Oh boy, the party tonight will be brilliant.

ETA:
Plus, today is Carl Sagan's birthday.

Because I am booored and need distraction from the fact that tomorrow is monday.

Which animal do you associate me with? What best represents my personality?

LOOK WHAT I HAD IN THE POST



I think I'm in love... and it makes me want to hop into something cosplay-like to give that watch some glory, but I'm too lazy and broke now (which might not only be because of the watch but because of the huge shopping spree yesterday). ^^
That's fobwatch number three (of two I bought myself and one I inherited), I might develop an obsession here.

ETA: Did a minor Friends cut - mainly because I realised how many people's entries I read while they had no idea who I am.
ETA2: New Waters of Mars trailer! You know, the reference to David Bowie's 'Life on Mars' makes my head hurt ^^