Friday, October 29, 2004
Can't concentrate on the media analysis thingie and so, instead of eg reading grammar for a while, I am sitting here and doing quizzes. I am Willow (x2), Kanga, a hybrid of Progressive Girl, Indie Girl and something else, I forget. Anyway, I also now know that my knowledge of Bram Stoker's Dracula, as well as all the seasons of BtVS, is fairly good.
And continuing the theme..
(nicked from wherever)
A is for age: 22
B is for booze: Beer or wine, usually.
C is for career: Absolutely no idea.
D is for dad's name: Raimo.
E is for essential item to bring to a party: Powder :)
F is for favorite song at the moment: Stars Come Down by FSM.
G is for girlfriend: Aw, my friendses. <3
H is for hometown: Karkkila - officially. At the moment I reside in Joensuu.
I is for instruments you play: None, really.
J is for jam or jelly you like: Strawberry.
K is for kids: Thankfully none.
L is for living arrangements: Shared flat in Rantakylä.
M is for mom's name: Marja (Leena).
N is for name of your best friend: Can't name only one.
O is for overnight hospital stays: Only as a kid.
P is for phobia[s]: I fear bugs.
Q is for quote you like: "Never trust anything that can think for itself if you cannot see where it keeps its brain." -Arthur Weasley
R is for relationship that lasted the longest: Depends on how you define relationship.
S is for sexual orientation: Straight.
T is for time you wake up: Usually around 7 or 8 am.
U is for unique trait: Uh.. I can do the Elvis thingie with my upper lip?
V is for vegetable you love: Carrot.
W is for worst trait: Indecisiveness.
X is for x-rays you've had: I can only remember teeth.
Y is for yummy food you make: Tuna pasta.
Z is for zodiac sign: Libra.
The party spirit caught up with me eventually last night. It was an alright party. Nothing spectacular but fun nevertheless. And my God costume was surprisingly successful :) Echo was very well represented, I think over half of the people in the party were English majors. Oh well. At least I knew some people. The last bus left way too early (I was too busy dancing to Ace of Base and other fantastic hits of the 90s to think about leaving) and I was all prepared to walk but Jetta came to the rescue. Got a lift from her boyfriend.
All in all, being at the party made me feel like I actually know some people here. Even others than English majors, there were some girls from the scifi club as well :)
Four girls had dressed up as Abba. Genius.
And Kari looked ultimately cool in his reaper cloak. Gah. It's the hair. And the fact that he's very tall. And thin. And pale. Apparently I was moping at some point again as Kari(!) thought it appropriate to cheer me up by hugging(!!) me. Oo-er. Mind you, I was tired and hungry. Should've taken something along to eat. Apart from the small chocolate bar.
We (Kaisa, Reeta, Samu and myself) are going to Teatteriklubi today to see Ville Härkönen. I remember seeing his solo gig last March but remember very little of it (it was a hectic day), so it's nice. And I've never been to Teatteriravintola so it's venturing a new place again. Also it only costs 2 euros to get in so it suits me well. Last weekend blew my budget totally and now, if I play my cards right, I'll survive until the 4th. Money day, hooray.
Stupid media analysis.. it keeps haunting me. At the moment I have material for some 5 pages or something. Need to double it somehow. Bugger.
Thursday, October 28, 2004
It seems that I really am going to the party as God. Well, yay. Apparently, in my mind, God looks very tacky. Green skirt, cow stockings.. Oh dear.
I know I'm going to freeze when I come back but I really feel like wearing a skirt. I guess I just need to drink enough wine to keep me warm. :)
Wrote the first part of my written assignment for the oral expression class today. I am most proud of myself. The second part shouldn't be too bad either. Some 3 to 5 pages about speech communication and my attitudes towards it. I can handle that. But it'll have to wait until I've finished the media analysis. Gah.
My head is blank, I just want to sleep. Not on partying mood. Arse.
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
I still have no idea what to wear on Thursday. So far my best idea is to pull an Oz, that is stick a note on my chest saying "god". Gah. I need ideas, quick.
I wouldn't look even half as cool as he does.
Pekka L. just phoned me. First I don't hear a thing from him for months and then he wants me to buy the Anna magazine so that they could win a competition and get on telly. Great. Ended up saying yes because apparently I can cancel the thing after the first issue or something.
Still. I don't appreciate the deal too much.
It's Donnie Darko this evening. I can't decide whether to come home to eat between drama and the film or if I should jsut go to Kuppila for a salad. Hm.
Monday, October 25, 2004
What a weekend. We ate like pigs.
Visiting Suvi was nice. I'm so envious of her flat. Gaaah.. I'm all enthusiastic about Tampere again. Nevertheless, our university has better courses and so I am staying here. For now.
Anyway. All in all eventful weekend. We visited Minna and Joel on Friday and Heidi on Saturday. And went to see The Village (finally). And went to the BeemVees evening on Sunday. Brilliant it was. Though for Huuto I didn't really care for. Their bass player resembled Ville way too much. Derek-Ville. Aaagh.
But anyway. We (Emmu, Suvi and myself) decided we like The Winyls. And Oikosulku was Oikosulku. Can't really complain.
Except about The Winyls being in JNS when I'm planning to be in Tampere. Nooo! I'm not skipping Hasardi, that's for certain. But it would've been nice to go to see them too.
Back to friendses. It was so nice to see Minna (and Joel) again. Really. I'd almost forgotten how nice they were. O_o
We did some shopping on Saturday as well. I finally got the new Office Building CD and, lo and behold, Tomppa was right. I'm loving it. I also bought a skirt and thought it fair as it was only 8 euros. Ah well. Now I am poor. Not that it matters. I won't be doing anything much for the next two weeks anyway.
Except going to Karkkila next week. Blast.
It bugs me that there are people that I really, really like but have met for the first time at my very worst. Now there's nothing much to fix the first impression and I'm stuck with a moronic image in their eyes. And when I try to talk to them, I get so nervous because of this moronic image, all this even more moronic stuff only comes out and then I have to bail. Did it again this weekend. Bugger.
And now I find myself talking to Jarkko about my non-existent relationship issues on messenger. Things are definitely not looking up.
I seem to have developed some sort of an obsession with canvas bags as of late. I bought yet another yesterday. Deeear.. I'm starting have way too many. They come in handy when food shopping, though.
John showed us Frankenstein today. I mean the original 1931 version with Boris Karloff. Hadn't seen it before.. I guess it's kind of general knowledge to have seen that film, but really, what does it have to do with the novel? Anything? "Arrrr, arrr!"
This version was particularly interesting as it was nearly impossible to understand the speech because of all the background noise. Granted, there were subtitles - in Spanish. They were also yellow :)
Vamos!
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
I was planning to spend this entire evening doing my essay draft.
Err.
I did write some two pages. And that two pages was the most utter shite I've ever written. So I take this all means that I'll be working like a looney tomorrow afternoon between fiction 2 and that oral expression course.
Made Suvi's belated birthday present today. It looks nothing like it was supposed to but she'd better appreciate the thought or I'll smash her head. Loving and caring friend, that's me. Made one for myself as well and of course it turned out looking a lot better >(
It was snowing today. Kind of. Something white was coming down from the sky but once it reached the ground, it melted. Still. It feels very early to be snowing. Like it came earlier every year.
I remember my 9th or 10th birthday when we were all running outside in t-shirts and skirts! Surely it was one long summer, but honestly. (<-- emphasizing use of an adverb)
Well, what do you know. I've learnt something during grammar 2.
I'm panicking about my Halloween costume. I've got a week to prepare it! No! There'd be a meeting about the party tomorrow but if I go there, I'm nearly forced to go to the party as well. If I skip the meeting, I always have the option of bailing out next week if I can't think of anything to wear. Basic Hanna logic.
But really. (<-- more emphasizing use of an adverb) I've always thought that if it's a costume party, it'd be better to stay home than to show up costumeless.
Saw Mecho - pardon me, Mikko - today. Weird. It's always strange to see friends' boyfriends (or girlfriends). Granted, I'd seen him before quickly about 2 years ago but then he was just a random member of Esa's family and I wasn't too interested as the family was visiting Esa, not me. :)
Anyway. Didn't talk to him much (or at all, just waved like a lunatic) which was rather silly because a) I do have a link to him of some kind b) I believe he's very nice. Oh well. Some other time then.
Though I still can't get over the fact that Virpi's dating Esa's little brother. Finland is way too small. Playing six degrees here is useless. You might just as well drop it to three degrees and still it'd be more than enough.
ps. What's Love's Labours Lost in Finnish? What actually happens in it? It's like the whole play had erased itself from my memory..
pps. Mitä hittoa??! Luulin aina että Mica Ikonen laulaa Lemmenkipeissä. Miksi? Mitä?! Kuinka? Eikö? Häh?! Minua on jossain vaiheessa huijattu ja pahasti. Kuka pimittää tietoa ja missä?! Ihan samalta se kyllä edelleen korvissani kuulostaa..
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Empirical research:
Not sleeping leads to tiredness that leads to hysteria. Especially during Written 2 lectures.
"Harry Potthaar and Pershonally Pollushing Shaushaazh."
"I think Harry Potthaar wash a shavaaazh."
How we came from polluting to Harry Potter, I do not now. Or to sausages or savages for that matter.
But luckily I have Jaakko there to keep me company or I'd have to make those up all by myself.
The oral expression course isn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be. There are some really nice people there. Of course the whole thing lasts only for a week so we won't have time to get to know each other properly and then we'll never see each other again. Words of a true optimistic.
Laundry tomorrow at 8am. The only morning this week I could have actually slept. Bugger. But I'm running out of clothes so I've really got no choice.
Monday, October 18, 2004
Last weekend I finally realised nothing really changes. Everything just goes around the same old circle. The sad thing is that I realised it after a rather fun evening and now I can't really remember that I saw four good gigs, had a Party Celebrating Life and Friendship with Milla and Johanna, hung out with other nice people and all that. Need to keep reminding myself then.
Did I say nothing really changes? Liar.
The somewhat traditional 5:30am text message came, for the first time, from Jukka.
And this time I was awake to read it.
Har.
Culture week, last one. Movie, gig, stand-up gig, club evening.
This week will happily compensate. I'll have lecutres until 9pm today, Tuesday and Thursday. And the Wednesday evening I'll have to spend writing my essay draft as I'll be invading Tampere from Friday to Sunday. Hurrah..
Decided to take the Finnish media culture exam sometime later. It'd be almost insane to take it now. I really don't have time to prepare for it now with the oral expression course and media analysis still to be done. And now I can go to the language students' Halloween party next week ;)
I still need a costume, though. What will I wear? Cheap and somewhat easy to make as I'll be very busy these two weeks. Ideas? Anyone?
Forgot my phone's charger thingie to Karkkila and my battery's low. I'll have to keep my phone swicthed off until tomorrow. Weird. And strangely liberating.
Johanna's probably the best flatmate ever. She'd cleaned the whole apartment even though it wasn't her turn and folded my sheets that were drying in the bathroom. Plus she gave me a mandarin. :)
Saturday, October 09, 2004
Oh. My. God. Is that MC Nikke T on the radio??
Apparently Robbie has a greatest hits CD out. Darn it. I don't even own Escapology yet. It only came out like two years ago.. I don't like the new Radio single, though.
Actually read grammar today. And a few chapters of Jane Eyre. And about 40 pages of one of the Finnish media culture exam books. Great! That leaves me only with.. a huge pile of work to do tomorrow :|
Received a suprise phone call from Liisa today, which was very nice. It turns out I'm not the only one who's feeling guilty for not keeping touch with anyone. She'd bumped into Mikko on the street, Mikko'd asked if she'd heard anything of me and it was then she realised we haven't really spoken for 6 months or something along those lines.
As welcome as the phone call was, it depressed me a little. Liisa's already doing her proseminar in both English and education. How, what, how??! I know their teaching programme differs quite a lot from ours but that's just .. amazing? Ridiculous? Uh? I mean, here I am, finishing my first university essay and she's doing her proseminar. I've got about 25 credits, she's probably got around 40. It's so unfair. Surely I had it easier last year but it's all coming back now.
I'm trying to drag Mikko to Voterock. It'd be nice to see him. Plus his dad's called Vote --> it's almost mandatory he's there as it'll be his last chance. But it's very likely he'll be busy. Darn. But that won't stop me from trying. Teehee.
Friday, October 08, 2004
Reeta had to cancel but I'm surprisingly fine with it. I mean, I still would've liked to go to Marks this evening but I think evening in does good for me. It's the first this week!
So, instead of listening to some live music, I baked pulla.
Johanna and Miia are both gone so I have the apartment all to myself and I'm loving it. Miia's a mystery to me, though. I haven't seen her since last week. Wedensday, was it? Hm. Hold on, I think I caught a glimpse of her when I got back on Sunday evening but I'm not sure.
Been on irc the whole day. Not so much talking, mIRC has just been running there all day. Me and Jaakko are hanging at #echory - alone. Suvi was online for about a nano second so I had a little chat with her.
Shouldn't have done that. I'd already made up my mind that JNS is a good place to be and that I'm going to stay here. Now after talking to Suvi, I'm all enthusiastic about Tampere again. Bugger! I know it won't be easy no matter what I decide but really, this is getting annoying.
I like our university. It's the place I don't like. With Tampere it's vice versa. I'm not too excited about the course selection but I love the place. Arse.
I have to settle with something soon enough and I really can't choose. Switching now would be moronic but I don't know. For some reason it tempts me.
But I can delay pondering until tomorrow. The same goes for my study books. Today it's just Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps and whatever else there might be on telly. Sweet oblivion.
Thursday, October 07, 2004
Went to the first ever meeting of the JNS scifi club (or society or whatever). Apparently at some point I promised to do the website. Well, great.
Not that I mind. It didn't sound like too much work - yet. It's just that I really don't know anything about scifi, really. I'm just a shameless wannabe. Oh well. At least I didn't hide that but told everyone straight away.
Virpi didn't want to go to Kulttis-klubi. Kaisa isn't here. Neither is Paula. Jaakko doesn't have any money. Finally managed to convince Reeta to come along. Hooray! Now I have to decide what to wear. Gah. I wish I had more clothes. This week I realised the clothes I own are mostly extremely boring. Sigh.
Yesterday was the first time in the history of Sointu-klubi that you had to actually pay to get in. 4 euros, so I'm not complaining. It's the two pints (and one for Jaakko) that worry me more, financially speaking.. :) But anyway. Minerva was well worth the four euros. They sounded good half-acoustic as well. Others seemed happy as well and therefore I don't need to feel guilty for half-forcing them to come with me.
Something's wrong with my monitor. Work, dread machine, work!
Monday, October 04, 2004
[discussing another film based on comic]
Jaakko: They cast KEANU in the lead.
Hanna: He manages to be everywhere.
Jaakko: The main character in the comic is about forty, blond, English--
Hanna: Well, Keanu is about forty.
Jaakko: --
[hysterical laughter for two minutes]
[writing instead of taking notes]
Jaakko: Last night I dreamed I was slaughtering neo-natzi occultists.
Hanna: O_o
Jaakko: Exactly.
Hanna: Last night, I'd taken my empty Monty Python's Holy Grail bottle from the table and placed it on the floor next to my bed :D
Jaakko: O_o
Quality moments during grammar 2 lectures.
I want to go to Kulttis club on Friday (seems too nice to skip) but during next weekend, I've promised to have a wine & cheese evening with Virpi and there's also been plans of a Rantakylä bar tour with some other people. Nooo! I'll try to talk Virpi into going to Marks after the wine and cheese. :)
Finished working with karvas.net for tonight. I'm off to see Fahrenheit 9/11 with Samu.
ps. the best hangover pizza in the world has been discovered. Need to keep it in mind.
Sunday, October 03, 2004
New October's Resolution:
No more booze before I can control my emotions. Honestly. I always end up crying my eyes out because of some trivial matter.
Yesterday it wasn't really trivial but still it was a strong over-reaction. I hear it only proves how sensitive I am but I don't quite buy that. I think it's just getting more and more embarrassing with time.
Oh well. What's done is done, can't change that now.
What a weird weekend. Friday Riia sent me a message saying that she's on her way to Karkkila and needs a place to stay. I decided it was good time for a grown-up birthday party (Emmu, Riia and me present) and once again slightly over-did everything. We had blueberry pie, crackers and brie and these weird gourmet crisps I've been wanting to try. It probably would've been a success if I hadn't been so tired that I kept dropping things everywhere. Like the whole brie to the whipped cream. Erm. Fun nonetheless.
It's so typically us to meet here instead of the sweet old Pohjois-Arjala (har) where we both happen to live.
Yesterday we went to this Elvis party thingie Gröne invited us to. Nothing much to say about that, really. Good salads. Lots of me emptying my head to Johanna. Some singing. One of the most disgusting Bajamajas I've ever seen. Excessive crying in strange company. Bar afterwards. Excessive dancing in various strange companies. Me being terribly annoying and a bad friend. A fish burger and fanta wildberry. Hangover. Whee.
Oh, and now I know who left the entry 46 to my guestbook. Mystery solved. Not so distressing anymore :)
I feel like I'd better stay away from Karkkila for a little while but I know I'll be back here in two weeks time. There's no way I'm missing the last Voterock.
Jukka got my Tampere enthusiasm, he's got the same. I think I really need to ask Eppu about the transfer. If it's even possible in theory. And if not, forget the whole thing.
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