Today is Thursday.

If you don’t know what I’m referring to: See here and here.

This time, maybe? They’re closing at 6 p.m. Lazybones.

Update: It’s 3:55 and the answer to above’s question is ‚Apparently not.‘
To be continued…

There’s no need to be overly detailed, so here’s a very short summary.
There were three parts of the written exams, two were weighed with 40% each and the third weighed 20%.

So, the results are:
Part 1: 81%
Part 2: 81%
Part 3: 91%

All together it makes a lovely 83%!
I admit I hoped for a little bit more, but my main goals have been met.
(Those were: Reach more than 80% and be better than my favorite office fiend. And I’m so much better than her. Yay!)

So, yay for me. I think I could’ve done better, but it’s over and it’s fine.

I got this from DeAnn’s Blog. I had seen it before but I just decided to do it.

Here are the rules:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Donâ??t search around and look for the â??coolestâ? book you can find. Do whatâ??s actually next to you.

I would also recommend to link to the person you got it from as well as writing a comment here if you decide to do this meme. That way, everyone – including me – can track where the meme came from and where it goes and read all the lovely out-of-context-sentences. But that’s just my suggestion, not necessarily part of the rules.

Now I am kind of cheating. I knew I wanted to do this meme when I was at work and had no ‚good‘ books around, so I waited until today. I’m at work again, but I brought a book to read on the train.

So, here it is, from David Guterson’s ‚Our Lady of the Forest‘:
‚His black leather belt made creaking sounds.‚

Apparently Guterson isn’t so fond of long sentences (and quotation marks, for that matter).

And just to give you an idea of how it would have been if hadn’t allowed myself to cheat an eensy-weensy tiny little bit:

From Peter Prinz’s and Ulla Kirch-Prinz’s ‚C++ – Lernen and professionell anwenden‘:
‚Zu beachten ist, daÃ? eine do-while-Schleife mit einem Semikolon abzuschlieÃ?en ist.‚

Fun, huh?

I have this special ability to see when in any given text, be it on paper or on the internet, there are accidentally two spaces between words instead of just one.

And it really bugs me when there are more than one.

I really don’t need to write much, since Jill got it all covered on her blog and this is exactly how I feel right now.

So, once I have calmed down a little and feel able to write more than little snippets of how crazy this world is, I will present you my New Year’s Resolutions for other people. Because apart from my harmless flaws I’m doing really great.

And I don’t deserve to be treated like this. I’m really nice. Yes, I do snark and bitch sometimes, but I never actually hurt people. I’m not violent at all. I don’t pull hair or punch anybody. I always pay for everything. I give tips when I eat out or order in. Occasionally I use my elbows to remind people that they should let me step out of the train before they can get in. And I sometimes throw paper balls at my co-workers. That’s it. Really.

So, world, why do I have to put up with all these idiots? And why, oh why, do they always win?

Oh, yes, I remember… I’m too nice.

Current mood: Frustrated. Really.
Listening to: One Evening by Feist.
Eating: Pudding

So he won’t talk to us, won’t answer our calls, won’t pay.

I just talked to a friend of my parents who works as a real estate agent. He said that our main goal should be to get the tenant out by February. We can still try to get the rent for January later.
Concerning our situation right now he couldn’t really help, but he gave me some really useful hints what to do when we search for a new tenant, which hopefully will be really, really soon.

Anyone interested in a nice one-room apartment in Germany? We hope we’ll be able to rent it soon.
There’s one condition though: We’d like you to pay the rent. And be nice and polite to us, but we’re willing to call the last one an option, really. Just pay, then.

Oh yeah, his lawyer will contact us soon. Because of what again…? Accepting his notice of cancellation and just having asked him to pay this month’s rent?

No, I didn’t get my results yesterday.
And no, I won’t get them today.
And yes, if nothing goes wrong I will have them tomorrow.

Obviously they can’t just send out all the results in one big load and be done with it. They have to send them out in little packages, so apart from being among the last ones to know in the country, I will be the very last one to know.
See, I was pretty well aware that the responsible institution was obviously one of lamest of the country. All the other trainees all over the country already knew their results when we in Cologne didn’t even know when we would know our results.
And now, not only are my results processed by the country’s slowest IHK (the German chamber of industry and commerce) ever, but I am obviously last on their list.

The only good news is that I could prevent a disaster from happening. Yesterday I was wondering why I didn’t have my results when some of the other trainees at my company did. The boyfriend thought that it might be because of the postman who doesn’t seem to care to come and bring us mail but every other day. When I woke up this morning it hit me that the IHK still had my old address in Bonn, so if they had already sent my results I would never ever get them.
So I called them right this morning and though I was right and they still had my old address it also turned out that they haven’t even sent my results yet.

So, on the one hand: Relief, since my results didn’t go all return-to-sender.
On the other hand: Why am I last on your list, lady? What did I do that I get to know everything last? Huh?

I know, I’m not really fair, nor am I being rational here, but since 99% of all trainees nation-wide know their results, I would like to know mine, too.

Except… see post below.

The results of our written exams have been sent out. Finally.
Another trainee talked to her sister this afternoon and apparently she got her results already. Now, either the boyfriend is playing games with me or I haven’t gotten mine so far. Tomorrow, then.

But do I really want to know? I mean, I have all these high expectations and though I’m pretty lazy I’m also pretty ambitious. In the sense that I just expect I will do fine because I always have. So I tell myself and the whole world that I’m prepared for a loss (which will be less than 80% for that matter) but then I again I’m really not. Because I’m just not used to losing.

As soon as I know you will, too.

This would better be titled ‚How Not To Get There‘, but I’m too optimistic for something like that. It’s not that bad actually.

We just didn’t go to the registry office last Thursday. We didn’t go because the boyfriend wanted to come to Cologne and when we got back it was too late. Like all the public offices in Germany the registry office has opening hours that scream ‚ridiculous‘ from the top of its lungs. So Thursday is the only day we have a chance of getting there or I would have to leave work early.

Since there are actually no real news here I am contemplating telling you the date I would want to be the wedding day. I don’t know… is that too early, maybe? Should I wait and see how things turn out and tell you when we’ve actually decided on a date.
This much I can tell: It’s my dead grandmother’s birthday. I am lucky enough to have three living grandparents still. My grandmother died of cancer when she was 80 in 1995. She was a big part of my life, since we lived with my grandparents until I was 13 and so I spent a lot of time with them.

I just realized that this year it will be her tenth day of death(and it would have been her 90th birthday), so now I am convinced that we must marry on her birthday.

This Thursday, maybe?
Do you think…?

Current mood: Kind of excited. Yes, the thought of getting married gets me excited. That’s me.
Listening to: One Moment More by Mindy Smith.

I’m in meme mood. There are some news on the strange tenant, but I’m too lazy to write about it. Besides we won’t know anything for sure until tomorrow.

This is how this meme works. Copy the list from the last person in the chain, delete the names of the authors you don’t have on your home library shelves and replace them with names of authors you do have. Bold the replacements.
Also, link to the person you got it from, in this case, the fabulous me.
(Am I getting a little bit too self-confident on this blog? Cause I’m afraid I am.)

J.D. Salinger
Jack Kerouac
Bill Bryson
Douglas Adams
J.K. Rowling
JRR Tolkien
Oscar Wilde
W.H. Auden
Val McDermid

Now, go on and meme it. And tell me if you do, because I’d really like to see the list. And get comments actually, but I am REALLY more interested in the list.