Tuesday, November 30, 2004
I wonder if those speaking English as their mother-tongue actually that when saying "What I need is a holiday!" they're actually producing something called pseudo-cleft sentence (consisting of nominal relative clause + be + focused nominal element). And that they do this in order to mark the theme (S+V --> "I need") of the information unit intead of the usually marked focus (NP --> "a holiday"). And if they really do happen to know this, do they actually care?
Gah. Today I 'ave mostly been 'ating my life. I wish I was naturally so smart that I didn't have to work so hard to actually progress in my studies. But I am not. Nothing much I can do about it. Except keep working hard and feeling bad about it :|
But right now I am taking a brake from revising grammar.
(Not so surprisingly, taken from Rika..)
1) first grade teacher's name: Ritva.
2) last words you said: "Oookei, mooooi." I was speaking to Virpi on the phone.
3) last song you sang: Some random song on the radio this morning.
4) last person you hugged: I hugged a few people last Thursday, can't remember who was last.
5) last person you got kissed by: Aeee.. ?! I honestly can't remember O_o
6) last thing you laughed at: Haven't really laughed today.
7) last time you said 'I love you': This, too, would fall under the "don't remember" category.
8) last time you cried: Can't remember this either. I am boring.
9) what's in your CD player: David Bowie 1969-74.
10) what color socks are you wearing: Blue.
11) what's under your bed: Boxes, extra mattress, sleeping bag, hobbit action figures..
12) what time did you wake up today: 10:30. Oops.
13) current taste: Blueberry-hallonberry soup.
14) current hair: Orangeish, reddish mullet. Yay.
15) current clothes: Dark blue jeans, black Esprit t-shirt, black underwear.
16) current annoyance: The grammar exam.
17) current longing: Holiday.
18) current desktop picture: Lemonator.
19) current hate: My life? :)
20) favorite features of the opposite sex: Internal or external? Eyes and humor.
21) last cd that you bought: Violent Heart by Office Building. Possibly.
22) favorite place to be: Depends on the mood but I'll say the movie theatre.
23) least favorite place: Car / bus when you're feeling sick. And dentist's.
24) time you wake up in the morning: 7am - 11am, depending on the day.
25) if you could play an instrument: I'd have a skill of playing an instrument!
26) favorite color: Green & black. Blue, red and orange have their moments.
27) do you believe in an afterlife: Not really.
28) how tall are you?: 1,66m.
29) current favorite word/saying: "No en tiiä."
30) favorite book: Don't have just one favourite.
31) favorite season: Autumn.
32) one person from your past you wish you could go back and talk to: I never got to meet my other grandmother and I've heard she was nice.
33) favorite day: I like Thursdays.
34) where would you like to go: Practically anywhere.
35) what is your career going to be like: Most likely poorly paid.
36) how many kids do you want: None at the moment, thank you.
37) what kind of car will you have: One that I won't be afraid of driving.
38) type a line you remember from any book: "So foul and fair a day I have not seen." (Macbeth in Macbeth)
39) a random lyric: ...and Lennon's on sale again... (Life on Mars by David Bowie)
40) identify some things surrounding your computer: Photo frames, postcards, CDs, lots and lots of pens, two pairs of scissors and A Student's Grammar of the English Language by misters Greenbaum and Quirk.
Sunday, November 28, 2004
How I wanted to have a day off today and just watch crap Sunday afternoon TV. I'm so sick and tired of grammar I can't believe it. I know I would only have to really concentrate on it until Wednesday and then I could forget it for the rest of my life, at least on some level. But it so painful.. I'm pretty sure that with this non-existent knowledge/understanding of mine, I won't pass and will have to stay here until 16th and take the re-sit. Aeeeerh.
Aeeeerh #2: This afternoon I tried to find out how Angel the series ends. And somehow managed to get spoiled about the ending of BtVS some four hours before the series finale was on TV. Go me. I only got spoiled about Anya's death, though. Still, most annoying.
And now Spike really bugs me. He's burnt to ashes and still somehow manages to be in Angel during season five. What? I know it's not the first time dusted vamps appear on that show but I'd still like to know what happends. I might be forced to actually watch the fifth season when it's on over here O_o Good lord, no.
I had people over last night. It was fun even if slightly awkward. Jaana, Petra, Reeta, Jupe and Jaakko. I even baked blueberry pie for them but of course fucked it up completely. Surely it's the thought that counts.. Most silent moments were saved by me and Jaakko talking nerd things. Woo. And the girls seemed to be perfectly capable of entertaining themselves with my hobbit action figures I took out of the box under my bed by request.
But how come it's ok to own hobbit (or other) action figures but not collectible toy cars? Just wondering. Where's the difference?
Thursday, November 25, 2004
When I wake up early in the morning,
Lift my head, I'm still yawning
When I'm in the middle of a dream
Stay in bed, float up stream
Re-discovered the I Am Sam soundtrack today. I'd forgotten how much I like that version on I'm Only Sleeping. Or any version for that matter.
I'm all dressed up, leaving for the Echo pre-Christmas party in 20 minutes. I don't know what's coming out of it, really. On the behalf of all the second year students I decided that we're not baking this year as it'd be unfair if someone would have to stay behind and clean up the whole place afterwards (Palaveri requires that this year). A few hours ago Jari phoned me and informed that all the Christmas decorations are missing.
Well, yay. Now, it appears, the whole evening relies on the freshmen who hopefully come up with something really spectacular for games and such. Otherwise it'll just be a bunch of anglophiles getting drunk. Not that there's anything wrong with that. :)
Last year Suvi, Jaakko and myself were all sober and still in all the photos managed to look the worst drunkards on this side of the planet. I wonder if it works reversly as well. I mean, if me and Jaakko get really wasted and force people to take pictures of us, would we look all good and sober in the final photos? Hmm.
A few faults in the plan, though. Jaakko's leaving for the Semmarit gig in Riverside before 10pm and I am broke and therefore cannot afford the Palaveri prices. Ah well.
Wednesday, November 24, 2004
Now that drama and written classes have ended for the term, I have ridiculously little school during a week. Not that I had much to begin with. But yeah, feels funny and so on.
I bought this disgustingly large bag (200g) of nacho cheese balls and am planning to keep them company while watching Singles. I originally promised myself a bag of crisps if I manage to read three chapters of grammar today. Only read two, but I also did a pronunciation exercise, added final touches to the oral expression essay and printed it out so that I can hand it in tomorrow. I also cleaned the apartment. So I'm thinking I've deserved the cheese balls.
Why do you always reward youself with food anyway? Rather stupid, really. I sometimes rent a film or something but if I do that, food naturally goes along with it. Need to learn out of the habit. But not before the term has completely ended ;) At least not before grammar 2 exam is over. Before that I'm planning to do everything within my budget to make me at least somewhat motivated. I can then worry about being size of a mammoth during the Christmas holiday. Woo.
What was I complaining about all the TV shows ending this week? Pffft! Silly me. Today I realised Are You Afraid of the Dark? reruns are still on telly! Hurrah! Marvellous entertainment :D Even as a kid I thought the show was crap but for some reason watched it anyway. I can't believe they're still showing it.
What would be perfect is Eerie, Indiana reruns. Why we never got a second go with that one? It was a really good show. At least when you're eight or nine.
These are exciting times we're living. Today I heard we're getting a microwave. Johanna's uncle is giving us one. ?! Not that I've particularly missed having it but I have to admit it makes warming things up hell of a lot easier.
Tuesday, November 23, 2004
I'm again suffering from a designer's block, but thought the blog needed a change. This is something I've been playing with for months but never quite liked the result. I still don't. Decided to let it go anyway.
It's an end of an era. The last episode of Friends aired over here today. The last episode of Sex and the City will be on telly in half an hour. And the last episode of Buffy will air on Sunday evening. What will I watch on telly from now on, huh? I've watched these shows for years O_o
Tru Calling is a lame substitute. Really.
Found the first semi-human photo of me among all the photos from last Saturday today. Hurrah! Anna-Leena is really cute in it so I saved it. However, this photo by Heli is probably my favourite.
Me and Jenni actually meeting for the first time and I'm on the phone. It's good to know I am, above all, a social personality. Har. Plus I really do need a bigger coat with this bust.
Gah. I somehow lost four hours of my day at #sunnydale today. Haven't really chatted on IRC for a good long while and now my head is buzzing. It was doing that before I started already but this staring at the screen for hours surely didn't help. I feel like getting fever or something. No! A few more weeks and then I can be as ill as possible, but not now.
I'm not liking meat balls today.
Sunday, November 21, 2004
I feel like sleeping for a week. After Thursday I haven't had a proper night sleep, some of the times being my own choice, some not.
Tampere was lovely again. And the quality time with Anna-Leena was exactly what I needed, I had a blast! Just hanging out for a few days, doing nothing in particular.
Hasardi was an experience as well. And now I am honestly kicking myself for not going to see the Valumo gig last week! Juhamatti might be "slightly" slimy, but the songs sounded pretty enough when Ville was singing them. But I think I have to check on Minna and Joel, they left halfway through the Armos gig and looked a bit funny :)
And thanks to tagging along when Juha, Saku, Matti, Tretja & Jukka left for the Jee Jee bar, I've now had my share of dancing with my eyes closed for a while. I can actually concentrate on the remaining exams and leave the bars of JNS alone. The part of tagging along that does bother me is getting to sleep at 8am.. Oh well. You live only once and all the other scheisse they say.
Though I have to say that it is a bit sad to travel from JNS to Tampere to end up hanging out with the Karkkila posse. Anyway.
The Caritas Christmas party yesterday, also fun. I was just way too tired and was the first one to surround to sleep at 4am. But all those people! Most of them really, really nice. Next time I'll be sharper, though. The only reason I stayed up even until 4 was the endless amount of consumed cola beverages. Har.
Hm. I'm thinking of a new career. I could give courses on how to look extremely intelligent in photos. Good plan.
Example One.
Example Two.
Example Three.
Example Four.
Thanks to Marjo & Joni's artistic views, I will never appear before another camera again. Aeeerh.
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
Hurrah! Couldn't sleep last night again. Around 3am I decided that I do not have to wake up at 7 and that I can skip drama & written today because my head functioning even somewhat properly at the exam stoday is way more important. However, I don't really know how it is functioning. And functioning properly doesn't really help if I don't know the things Greg asks. Aaaa.
Got some photos from last summer back the other day. It was Milla's film but I developed doubles of 14 or so. And speaking of photos, I really want to take some next weekend but the battery of my camera died a while ago. I have to ask mum to lend me some money to buy a new one as they are so darn expensive. Well. It's the first time this autumn I'm actually asking her for money so maybe I can cope. I still don't like it, though.
This is the man that I plan to entangle, isn't he fine?
I really can't believe I skipped Sky Captain And the World of Tomorrow with the scifi folk because of the second part of the cheesy 80s BBC production of Jane Eyre John was showing for fiction 2. As if the first part a week ago wasn't bad enough.. Timothy Dalton's Mr Rochester was rather interesting, though. It involved lots of huffing and puffing, over dramatic gestures and prancing around like a stuffed gorilla with a bar of iron up his bottom. Hm. Call me strange but I'd rather seen the 1997 version with Ciarán Hinds, because a) he looks a lot like the Mr Rochester I'd imagined and b) he's way more talented that Timothy D. Plus he portrayed a slightly similar character in Persuasion and did hell of a good job.
Last night's insomnia did some good, though. I'm now over half way through of Tess of the D'Urbervilles and am actually starting to like the book. There's also a good hook for me to read it: Henna told me the ending is very strange and it got me curious. But really, it's fascinating how much society and attitudes have changed in the past 100 years. Which also makes it pretty frustrating to read the book. "Well, she had a baby outside of marriage. So what?!" :)
Wrote all that in the morning already but Blogger was being an arse again and wouldn't publish. I'm seriously considering changing the software. Arg.
ps. according to my inbox, I have cool celebrity friends. And yes, I might have altered the message subject a little :D
Sunday, November 14, 2004
Skipped the Valumo gig but went to Amarillo with Samu, Henna, Pauliina and Lauri instead. Good choice otherwise but their cider is over-priced. Ah well. Nothing I can do about it now.
I lied yesterday in the survey. For one, I didn't update the James site. I also did wake up slightly hungover but that passed soon. I did, however, write the essay draft. Go me! I've done everything I was planning to do this weekend. Except studied for the linguitics exam. I'm starting to panic about it. Aaa!
Went to see the dress rehearsal of Salome today. Samu was right, it's not quite finished yet. But the elements were there. I loved the text! Oscar Wilde, no wonder.
The bands are being styled today on Postars2. I'm not sure if I'm liking Ari & Jackson's new hairdos. The change definitely did Rene good, though. I'm still bitter Ronnie was voted out. Henna and me had a good rant about this last night. It's nice to find someone who understands - and shares my pain :D
Henna and me had a shared age crisis as well. We cursed everyone born in 1984. Even more bitterly than the people who voted Ronnie out of the band.
Edit: Jane & Ind-x? WHAT?!
Jebus.
Well, better than Jane and John.
Saturday, November 13, 2004
Yesterday and today I've been pretending to be a good student. Woo. If I continue the same, ie doing loads of things in advance, I'll be probably able to leave for Tampere already on Thursday. And that would be very welcome as then I could actually spend some quality time with Anna-Leena and also meet up with Suvi. We'll see. If I get my essay draft written before Wednesday, it is settled.
Going to Pauliina & Sanna's birthday party today and I have no idea what to wear. The others are probably going to a bar afterwards but I'm thinking of coming home as I really don't have any money. Or then I'll go to see the Valumo gig, haven't decided yet. Once again, the thought of going alone just sound too pleasent.
I bought a lollipop for each of the girls because I thought it was polite. Nobody's expecting me to take present but it's their birthday party after all. In my opinion, apple lollipops are always a safe way to go.
Why is Blogger so painfully slow nowadays?!! I really ought to change the blogging software but I'm way too lazy.
Ate some cookies yesterday while watching the Truman Show and me feeling bad about it mentally turned into real physical pain. Haven't had those mysterious stomach aches in a good long while! I think the last one was in July or something. Weird. But once again I felt like someone was stabbing and twisting my guts with a rusty old knife. The connection to me eating cookies is most likely non-existent, but whatever. I eat like a pig anyway, should watch what I put into my mouth more carefully. And thus today, I have eaten a small bowl of porridge. And am now drinking tea.
And I can't bear the fact that when I wrote "a rusty old knife" I actually thought into what order do the adjectives grammatically go. I can't be bothered to check but I think it's the general adjectives before the adjectives of age. I think. I wish it was Christmas already.. The grammar exam would be over and I could stop thinking about these things. Unless, of course I fail the exam, which is not unlikely.
Gacked from Rika who gacked it from Iva who.. whatever.
Ten years ago, I:
1. Wore ridiculously large jeans. Hip hop!
2. Listened to Rednex(!) and the likes. The shame.
3. First discovered Johnny Depp.
Five years ago, I:
1. Was the chair of the student board.
2. Went to England in a student exhange programme.
3. Realised that my boobs make me look feminine :|
One year ago, I:
1. Hated Joensuu with passion.
2. Had a small obsession with old East 17 albums.
3. Saw Suvi singing to her pizza slice at Rax :)
So far this year, I:
1. Have decided to start liking Joensuu. (in progress)
2. Have read more books than in the last three years together.
3. Have given away many of my baby websites.
Yesterday, I:
1. Got e-mail from Kaisa after 1½ years.
2. Did a shitload of schoolwork.
3. Woke up without alarm.
Today, I:
1. Wrote an essay for the oral expression course.
2. Watched French Saturday morning TV(!).
3. Listened to Guano Apes for the first time in years.
Tomorrow, I will:
1. Write the draft for my plgaiarsm essay.
2. Not hopefully be the slightest bit hungover :)
3. Update the James site.
In one year, I will:
1. Have over 60 university credits.
2. Be 23 years old. Goodness.
3. Have moved nearer to town centre.
In five years, I will:
1. Hopefully have graduated.
2. Have moved away from Joensuu :D
3. Have read Crime and Punishment. Really.
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
Hanna: Legally Blonde is on telly tonight!
Kari: You get to dream about being a smart blonde.
Hanna: No, tried blond hair once. Didn't suit me. I looked funny.
Jaakko: How about being smart?
Hanna: I'm not too sure it would suit me either. But as it can never happen, it's really not an issue.
Tuesday, November 09, 2004
I want:
- a laptop
- a mirror (the kind that can stand itself)
- this certain table
- chairs to go with it
- an apartment where to place all those things
- digital camera
- a pile of CDs and DVDs
Sigh. Distant dreams.
Meh. I was invited to Pauliina & Sanna's birthday party on Saturday. It's the same day that Salome opens, Samu asked me to go to the opening night party and Ville Leinonen & Valumo are at Marks. What to do?
I probably end up going to Pauliina's for a few hours and then going to Marks and then home. I can see Salome some time later and I'm not really too interested in the party after the play. Even if Samu & Mikael are performing there. Actually, I think it'd be better to stay away :)
Going to Marks depends a lot on the ticket price, though. If it's a lot over 5 euros, I'll have to go alone. Jaakko said he's not paying more than that. Oh well.
Negative never stops amusing me, pronunciation-wise. "So lost and lone you arrr." :)
Monday, November 08, 2004
Ari's in the band! Ari's in the band!
And before I really understood what I was doing, I'd voted for Ronnie.
It's Popstars2! Why do I even care?
But for some reason I seem to.
This is so very sad.
Sunday, November 07, 2004
To quote Britney Spears(!), "everybody's talking all this stuff about me, why don't they just let me live?"
Really. But if my little existence gives people something to talk about, whatever. I just wish they weren't putting me into such a bad light but I guess it's not up to me.
Har.
Bar conversations yesterday.
Jukka: Saw that Simo bloke yesterday and he said that when he saw you a few weeks ago, you were really drunk.
Hanna: What? Was not!
Jukka: What, really?
Hanna: Yes, really.
..fifteen minutes later..
Tomi: Heeeeey, how are you? Hungover?
Hanna: No, I am feeling fine, thank you.
I wonder what those people think of me O_o Screw up once really badly and you're labelled. But I guess they've never seen me sip the same half pint for nearly two hours.. Oh well. I find this half amusing, half sad.
Memma was supposed to take me to the train sation today and she said that she'd rather take me to the 1:30pm train than the 4:30 one. I thought it was way too early but as it was better for her, I didn't oppose. Phoned her half an hour before we were supposed to be going and she was still in bed. Apparently she forgot all about it - and it was only yesterday I even asked. A reminder why I don't normally rely on her in getting lifts et cetera.
Now I need to kill time for three hours and already I'm bored.
Kaamos-klubi last night was a success. And it was good that me and Johanna offered to help with the buffet and things as a) we didn't have to pay 8 euros to get in as we're poor b) they would've been absolutely fucked without us.
Balalaika Kombinaat was definitely an experience. The singer was average, not spectacular but alright, but the band itself! Never before have I heard Stand By Me played by four balalaikas :) Sadly they didn't perform Paranoid. I hear they can do it if someone happens to request it (and someone did, too).
Going to Ruukki's Back to the 60s evening afterwards wasn't too good an idea. I ended up leaving halfway through Slipover's gig. Had I not gone, I wouldn't have had the wonderful bar conversations with Jukka and Tomi. Oh happiness. This one man also bought me a bottle of Sandels because he was so pleased with karvas.net. Trying to find some good sides of the whole Ruukki visit. Gah.
Two and half hours to go still. Poo.
Saturday, November 06, 2004
My poor head. It aches so badly.
The reason being that I didn't sleep too well. I had to sleep on the sofa with no less than two blankets because the whole apartment is generally cold now that mum and Jussi aren't here (I guess they're trying to keep the electricity bill low) and it was effin' freezing in my own room. And if that wasn't enough, some moron started hammering and drilling at 7.30 on a Saturday morning. Talk about inconsiderate.
So now, because of the aching head and lack of good sleep I'm on a really bad mood. I also have no food. Aeeeerh.
Me and Johanna went out for a few pints yesterday and it was really nice. A relaxing moment. Apart from the moron who placed a straw from a milk containing drink to my pint -> milk and beer do not mix well.
After Johanna left, Juha came to ask me something and kind of got stuck in our table. I think we talked nearly two hours or so. A very welcome plot twist, I honestly can't remember when I've last talked to him properly.
Ha. Figured out this morning that I actually own a copy of Love's Labours Lost on video. I watched it this morning with the lovely background sounds of a hammer and a drill. It was the Kenneth Branagh version so certain freedom was taken in filming. Oh well. Now I can happily tape over it, it wasn't that good. Even if it was a musical :)
Hair frustration. I'm beginning to have a mullet.
Thursday, November 04, 2004
I made a choice not to comment the US presidential election. Though I have to admit I feel very tempted.
I am commenting the election system, though. What is wrong with that country???! It doesn't take a genius to understand that the system they use simply does not work in a country that big. If anywhere.
Printed out the media analysis yesterday and handed it in today. I can already think about a hundred things I could've done better but there's nothing I can do about them now. Which, in a way, is good. I can just forget the whole thing until Dec 1 when we're getting the papers back.
I also somewhat finished my pollution essay yesterday. And I read some grammar. That means that I can leave all the school work to JNS and actually relax during the weekend, if I choose to O_o
I did pack Tess of D'Urbervilles if Karkkila is awfully dull this weekend. I will have to read it on train at least, though. I have barely started and the exam is getting nearer and nearer. Things aren't looking too bad for me, really. I think Jaakko's still only half way through the first of the four novels..
I went to see this apartment today. It was absolutely perfect! The rooms were huge and the rent cheap and all very nice things. Granted, there were only three TV channels (no Nelonen or Sub, gasp!) and getting a net connection would be way too expensive. I could adjust myself to those, they're really not the problem. But it turned out that I could only live there for a year. Decided to skip it.. I don't want to start the apartment hunt all over again next year. Plus I really don't like moving. Bollocks.
I was too tired to go to see Elephant last night. Oh well. I'll see it eventually. Also the Ismo gig will have to be left to future.. Kaisa chose to go to Lappeenranta instead and as I still suck at going anywhere alone, I decided to pass.
Killing time before train takes me away again. From Rika:
Five things you may not know about my time in school are:
1. I was the only girl in our class who didn't pretend to be disgusted by this one guy's woolly sock in 4th grade. Girls are strange.
2. Me and Samu formed a NKOTB fanclub during 3rd grade.
3. I liked maths until 6th grade.
4. I wrote all my 7th grade fiction essays in different genre (fantasia, love story, detective story and so on).
5. I got accepted to this special language high school but chose to go to Karkkila's own high school instead.
Five things you may not know about the job (jobs) I have (or had) are:
1. I did my 9th grade work training in the library. Hated repairing the books.
2. Last summer I could read three books a week during the work days, it was an easy job most of the time.
3. But thanks to last summer, I now know, in theory, the basics of how to make steel.
4. When I worked at R-kioski, I loved organising the magazines and video shelfs.
5. R-kioski made me deeply dislike instants and lottery.
Five things you may not know about my online life are:
1. I've done various BSB websites that never got online (luckily).
2. I learned the basics of HTML from my cousin Teemu.
3. I used to go to chats a lot.
4. I also used to write (bad) fanfic.
5. At one point, I though AOL was the coolest thing ever. O_o
Five things you may not know about where I live are:
1. There apparently is an organised group of skinheads here, with some five members.
2. It is the only university town in Finland where students don't get discount in the bus fares.
3. Nothing (libraries, video rental shops etc) opens before 11am, before that the town's dead.
4. You can't get milkshake from Hesburgers here.
5. Finnkino has not yet invaded the place. The movie theatre are old and full of atmosphere.
Five things you may not know about my core personality are:
1. I'm actually quite a boob (quoting Rika, but it fits).
2. I have a strong nerd side which Jaakko brings out rather effectively.
3. I'm often mean to people and then feel very bad about it for months at the best.
4. My foot likes to live in my mouth more often than not. :)
5. I'm somewhat of a perfectionist.
Five things you may not know about my home life are:
1. I usually watch telly when I eat.
2. And I eat sitting on the floor.
3. I bake often as I can't always afford buying bread.
4. Of all my furniture, only my chair and TV-table were originally bought for me.
5. I usually sing while cleaning, cooking, packing etc.
Five things you may not know that I desperately want are:
1. To feel happy and content.
2. To move away from Rantakylä.
3. To lose some 10kg. I am shallow.
4. To travel a lot.
5. To be smarter.
Five embarrassing fannish admissions you may know that I have are:
1. When I was 14, I started using Nivea deodorant because Kevin Richardson used it.
2. I actually own all 911 albums. Dear lord.
3. I also went to Helsinki to meet them. This happened before I bought the albums.
4. I can name all the BtVS episodes in order up to the beginning of season 5.
5. I wrote to James Marsters five times when I was 17-18 but never got a reply.
Five things you may not know about what I do in a typical day are:
1. I always take the 20 past bus instead of the one that leaves 15 minutes later.
2. Thus I'm always 30 minutes early before lectures.
3. I drink at least one cup of tea a day, usually a lot more.
4. I try to curl my hair every day. It never works.
5. I usually fall asleep after the first guest on Late Night With Conan O'Brien.
Five things you may not know that are really important to my character are:
1. Knowledge. Again quoting Rika.
2. Music. But everybody probably knew this one.
3. Company.
4. Solitude. Equally with #2.
5. Accomplishing things.
Monday, November 01, 2004
I ask you, how much should I do so that I wouldn't feel like the laziest bum on the planet? Apparently it would require more work than I'll ever be able to do. During the last weekend I've cleaned my room throughly, read the two chapters (second one frustratingly long) of grammar I was behind, done all this random but important stuff, started and completed the media analysis and somehow managed to waste a lot of time watching telly. I also went out to see people twice.
Umm.
The media analysis is driving me nuts, though. I sent it off to both mum and dad so that they could read it and offer any suggestions. But right now I'm so sick and tired of the whole subject that if somebody as much as mentions either Pekka Myllykoski, the green party of Helsinki or Freud, Marx, Engels & Jung, I'll shoot them dead, I swear.
The text started to live its own life, though. I started with the subject accurately and after about 7 pages found myself happily writing about a conspiracy theory. My analysis, if not me, seems to be convinced that Hufvudstadsbladet publishes political propaganda against the green party.
Oh well. :)
Sat about an hour and half with Paula in Kerubin kuppila on early Saturday evening. It's honestly sometimes fun to hang out with someone who is not an English student. We decided that looking for an apartment together wouldn't hurt. Probably a better chance of finding something nice and affordable, too.
Ville Härkönen on Friday then. Samu didn't show up but for some reason it didn't surprise me (maybe it's the fifteen years of experience of this?). We had a girls' night out with Reeta and Kaisa instead. Can't think of any other word to describe the gig but "nice". Very nice, indeed. Somehow after the March gig I was left with a feeling that I didn't like Ville H. too much and that he wasn't really all that good. How wrong was I. I'm still not "I'm going to buy everything Maryland's ever recorded!" enthusiastic, but it was a perfectly good way to spend a Friday evening and two euros.
Plus a guitar-playing man wearing woolly socks instead of shoes gives always a sympathetic impression :)
It's Kenneth Brannagh's 1994 version of Frankenstein today evening. I'm not really feeling up for it as a) I don't really like the film and b) I hardly slept last night, but whatever. I'm going anyway. After last weeks "Arrr! Arrr!" I want to hear some of that dialogue.
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