Studying. Not.
Another short post. I’ve been trying to study for the last 1 1/2 hours or so, but I couldn’t really concentrate, mostly because my hatred for the IHK grew with every minute I spent doing one of the old final exams. The tasks and questions are so damn stupid. They are either too easy or they are just wishy-washy, so that you have no clue what it is they want you to do or they are too difficult, and that mostly in the sense that there are a lot of things that I have never heard of before neither at work nor at school. In my opinion that means that I will probably never need to know. Or, in the not so likely case that I will, I consider myself smart enough to type in that particular word into the google search box and get the information I need. I hate the IHK. Hate ‚em. All.
By the way, can I somehow use footnotes using this system? Because that would be really, really cool. Just saying.
So for the moment I stopped studying and I think I will watch some TV now befpre returning to my books and papers later this evening. I was so tired when I came home, but we had to first fo to the post office and then to the small computer shop up on Kölner StraÃ?e (which most probably means nothing at all to you, but for the sake of detailed description, there it is) because as far as Pi can tell, what is broken in my father’s computer is the controller. The main problem is that the computer doesn’t recognize any of the hard disc drives anymore and they were connected with a RAID system. My computer actually did recognize them, but couldn’t access any data, so we figured that the discs themselves most likely are not broken, which is good news so far, but that something must be wrong with the connection between the two HDDs. So, to make boring computer stuff that even I have no clue about short, Pi is trying to get a new controller and we hope and keep our fingers crossed that the controller really is the problem , because if it’s not, we have to find something else to blame for the breakdown.
Where was I… Yes, I was tired and we had to do a lot of things before I could actually get home. Pi said something about me being quite exhausted and getting used to it lately and he’s right. I tend to lie down and just fall asleep and then sleep really long those last days, but as I said, I was really tired. So I made myself comfy on the couch, watched about 45 minutes of ‚Sarah Kuttner – Die Show‘ and then fell asleep. The first time I woke after just 20 minutes or so and I really should have gotten up then, but of course I didn’t, because I was oh-so-comfy wrapped in the blanket, so I fell asleep again and this time I slept for one whole hour. So, you thought your life was boring? Ha! I bet you know better now.
What else is there to write? I finally got my monthly cooking magazine…
awkward silence
You… don’t look at me that way.
more awkward silence
I said: Don’t. Look. At. Me. That. Way.
Really.
Confession #1: I get a cooking magazine. Once a month.
Confession #2: I subscribed to it.
Confession #3: I’m really very proud of it.
Confession #4: I get all excited when I know a new one is coming. I’m starting to talk about it approximately 5 to 7 days before I get it.
Okay, now that I finally got that out, can I please continue. My new cooking magazine is great. I particularly fell in love with two of the cakes, a panna-cotta-thing with gingerbread-flavour and stewed oranges, filled orange-crêpes, some sauerkraut-toasts with apples, and some very nice ideas for a Christmas menu. And I finally have an idea what I could give my mother for Christmas. They have a recipe for cinnamon-liqueur in there and that’s just what I think my mother would like.
Andreas fell in love with all the cakes. But it’s not like that I didn’t expect that.
If I get my scanner to work, which at the time is not the case, I might scan some pictures, so you can see all those great meals, desserts and whatever I am talking about. I’m so thrilled! I love my cooking magazine.
I think I really wrote enough now. This entry is longer than I expected it to be. So I’ll save writing about the strange weather we had here today later.
Current mood: Since the weekend is near, very fine.
Listening to: Me typing, Pi playing the piano.