Wednesday, April 27, 2005
Aaaa! What have I forgotten? There must be something. There must!
And I seriously don't know if I'm more worried about the fiction three exam or the fact that I've very probably forgotten something vital concerning the trip.
Let us see..
Purchase the train ticket - check.
Settle a dinner date with Suvi - check.
Settle the meeting up with Tanja and Anna-Leena - check.
Pack - check (more or less).
Passport - check.
Ticket to the gig - check.
Money exchange - check.
Write down the exact address of the hostel - check.
Find out the travel card prices - check.
Aaaa..
The only thing I have no idea about is how to get from the airport to the hostel in the middle of the night. I hope someone else does or we'll be in trouble. I found *some* directions, but wouldn't know how accurate they are, or whether or not we'll actually arrive in time to use them. Aaaaaa!
And I still need to figure out what I'll eat on the train. I know for a fact that I'll be half starving by the time the exam's over. And speaking of the exam. Aaaaa! Could The French Lieutenant's Woman be any more difficult????! Good Lord. I think it's best I'll rely on my luck and forget the rest.
We decided to skip Collectormania on saturday (frankly, I'm fed up with trying to figure out the train schedules and other shite), but we're going to see a play instead. Anna-Leena purchased tickets to A Life In The Theatre for us last night. I can't believe I'm seeing Patrick Stewart live! Joshua Jackson is naturally cool as well, but come on. It's Patrick Stewart. I think I'll burst any minute now.
I just realised we probably need to find out how to get from the hostel to the airport as well. And I'm running out of time!! No! Only another 10 minutes before I promised to meet up with the girls (yet another lunch date), and I still have to do a whole nuch of stuff. Why the hell am I blogging? The stupid thing won't publish anyway, my Monday's post is still saved as a draft due to some publishing issues. :|
Monday, April 25, 2005
The party on Friday was pretty much a disaster in many way, but we survived. Kind of. Eee. But if nothing else, the party proved that it is impossible to fit me, henna and Pauliina into the same photo and the photo so succeed. Really.
I think it can be safely said that Pauliina is way more photogenic than the rest of us. Then again, "the rest of us" being Henna and myself, that's not saying much. Oh well.
But Saturday was one of the best days in a long, long while. Just mindless hanging out for the whole day (from some 1:30pm to 10:30pm) with Henna and Pauliina. And after that I sat in Kerubin kuppila for some three hours listening Samu trying to be a DJ.
Could I have more days of that kind, please?
In one way Saturday was bad, though. My eating suffered severely during the weekend. I need to get it back on the track or I'll put on some 10kg before I even notice it. Blagh.
Friday, April 22, 2005
I also vaguely remember seeing some subtitled version of ep5 with Cee Threepio and Artoo Detoo some years back. All I can do is wonder.
What I'm also wondering is that in the exam (which is today), if it happens that I need to write some character names in the answer, should I write the real ones or stick with Obi Ones, Jodas, R202s and so on? Because they were, after all, in the material we were supposed to learn. I really can't tell o_O
It's the 90s party today, finally. And of course, I'm not feeling particularly anxious about it. Grah. I'd give anything to be able to just sleep through the weekend, but I guess it's not an option. Also, the party's slightly expanded and I don't know how social I have energy to be for that long (we're starting around 6pm because we have so much to listen to). What was originally supposed to be Henna, Pauliina, me and maybe one or two others, is now us three, Henna's sister and her boyfriend, Samu, Virpi and Kari. And possibly also Krista, we don't know. And because we settled to have the party at my place, I won't be able to leave sneakily if I run out of energy. Crap.
But maybe the mood will change once we start. We emptied the library yesterday from all the wonderful 90s dance pop CDs, like Aikakone, Taikapeili, Captain jack and so on. It's a good thing we remembered the existence of the library, though. While our own collections are fairly large, they're not extensive.
Drink-wise, I'm feeling boring. I ended up buying a six pack of beer, because that's what I was drinking in the very late 90s (like 1999 or something). I skipped buying the apples wine and stronger long drinks. Long drink because they're a bit too expensive, apple (and other fruit) wine because it makes me vomit before you can say "noodles".
Whatever happens today, however, I think I need to take some photos. Just to remind myself that we actually did this. And because mum gave me her old digital camera after my old dear camera broke, it's also doable now. Whee.
I wonder if the History of English results have been posted yet. Liz promised them for today, but you never know with her.
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
HA! Defeated the evil code and the site is now without any little cosmetic faults! I am the champion!
A huge amount of work still remains undone, though, so I guess I'll be busy enough until Thursday next week when I will have to say goodbye to all this stuff anyway. Not that I mind. The flight scares me a bit, though.
I'm hyperactive and dead tired simultaneously. Is that possible?
On a side note, I've been reading this book by Robin Wood for the film exam and it's rather interesting (but really, are all the people who write film theory books gay?), especially the parts about horror and fantasy genres. But I do have to say it takes the edge away when he (or the translator, I don't know) has written all the Star Wars character names wrong :) Or then he's possibly writing about characters I didn't even know existed. But anyway. The text is full of names like Obi One, CP-30, R202 and so on.
Hm.
I have a 2-hour tutor training today and it feels completely useless. I was there last year anyway, and it wasn't exactly the most useful thing then either. But whatever. It's only two hours, I think I can handle it. I just hope Kari and Jaakko will turn up so that I don't have to sit there alone. We'll see.
Saturday, April 16, 2005
@€$@#¤%!!
The SBP code isn't working like it should and I'm all RRRAAA! I have no idea how to fix it. The code Gröne wrote last year is way out of my league, but I thought we'd developed some sort of mutual understanding. It turns out I was wrong. It's just all kablooey and does these weird things I honestly do not understand.
Luckily it's not the content that's acting like an arse, these are all just little cosmetic faults and I want to believe I'll be able to fix them sooner or later.
Also not making this the brightest day ever: I had one of the most distressing dreams ever last night and am now infernally tired (like I wasn't tired enough already). Don't know.. it involved several people and left this really, really nasty feeling. Apparently I still have some processing to do with things I thought were already past. :|
Happier things: I went shopping yesterday and ended up blowing 50e in an hour. But I think I got the money's worth as I am now the owner of new jeans, shirt, belt, bra, skirt and three pairs of socks. The skirt was just extra, so that I'd get a discount of 20 euros (you got that if your total amount was 60e), but I think it'll come in handy during the summer. Or I wouldn't know. It's really short. I mean, really. It's quite possibly my bazillionth denim skirt. Ah well.
Still on list of things to buy: a new pair of sneakers (I just threw my favourite pair away this week because, well, there were several holes in them) and another shirt. Or two, if they're cheap. But thanks to things already bought, I now have things to take with me to the London trip. Whee.
Wrote 2,5 pages of the dance essay last night (on a Friday night, being the wild person that I am), which means at least another 2,5 to go. It's utter shite, but I don't care. I just want it done and get the credits, I really don't care about the grade in this case. Still, I feel like such a hypocrite when I write it.. "Our achievement, blah, blah.. we showed people that blah, blah.. I seriously think this elevates the meaning of our performance blah, blah". I feel sorry for whoever has to grade it.
// edit: saw the coolest undies yesterday! They were black and had the Batman logo in the front. Sweet cheese, how I want them! But it seemed a bit too much to pay 7 euros for knickers, really. Maybe later. :)
Friday, April 15, 2005
Ha. Figured out why the university library computers won't allow me using Blogger: the security settings. They also prevent me from opening any work related attachments Tomppa's been sending me. Hooray.
But now when I've solved the great mystery, I can always change the settings whenever I need to.
Skipped the Maj Karma gig yesterday after all and am now feeling like the biggest loser on this side of the planet. Hung out with Kaisa in Kerubin kuppila since 7pm, and when we were supposed to switch location after 11pm, I was so tired I could ahrdly keep myself awake. So I went home, re-read the first chapter of The Bell and slept like a log until morning. It's not like I'd have to feel bad for Kaisa because she had a friend to go with even though I bailed out. I just really wanted to go. Bollocks.
I'm getting old or something.
Really. Staying awake longer than 11pm seems impossible nowadays. And if I manage to stay awake longer, I'm really not good company :|
But had we gone to Kerubin kuppila after 9pm, I probably would've been awake enough at 11. The four hours there exhausted me to a point of no description. But it was necessary to go that early, there were circumstances.
Know that face you make when you see someone and you don't know whether you should grete them or not but want to show you've noticed them? It's not really a smile (though it secretly tries to be, I guess), but not a grin either. I've always known it looks silly, but you can't really help doing it, can you? Anyway. This morning I really realised how ridiculous it looks.
I did some laundry this morning and sort of bumped into this guy that apparently lives in our building. Now, it seems to be a habit in my building to say hello whenever you see someone in the staircase. Well, we were in the basement and didn't really come across each other, we just saw each other from some five metres distance.
Me: *look*
Him: *glare*
Me: *the face*
Him: *the face*
Me: *maintains the face*
Him: *turns away*
Me: *goes*
Grah.
The reason all those faces were necessary is that you never see anyone in the basement there, it was rather extraordinary.
Mentioning extraordinary, Me and Jaakko are watching The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen this evening. We are of the minority who didn't think it was utterly crap and because none of our friends wants to see it again, we're watching it together. We've been talking about it forever and thought we'd better actually watch it before summer's here and I'm gone. Plus, it's good to rent it now, because all films at Filmtown are only 0,99e this month.
Also, Lindex has some really good special offers right now. I decided I can afford a little shopping spree today :)
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Meh. The computers at the university library won't show Blogger properly. Or at all. Evilness. Not that I've been on blogging mood lately anyway, it's been a bit kablooey lately.
The drama exam was yesterday, which basically means that I have only three left. And once the film exam is done, I really don't have to read much anymore. The fiction 3 books have been read already and I won't have time to re-read them all anyway. I did re-read Heart of Darkness about week ago and, rather surprisingly, almost liked it. The first time I read it I couldn't quite grasp it or the idea. All I found was sailing. It turns out there's hardly any sailing in the book. Go me.
I'm rather proud of myself, though. In the yesterday's exam I answered questions about The Rivals and The Importance of Being Earnest, and wrote an essay about Love for Love. I didn't touch Macbeth, but I was supposed to answer to only three anyway. But I guess that shows I've read more than one or two plays, which is rather nice as I read them all twice.
After the exam Henna, Pauliina and me bought walnut ice cream and watched America's Next Top Model (it was some sort of revision episode, oh bore). And then we planned the 90s party and finally settled the date. It's Friday next week. Wooooo..
Today I ought to see Hanna & Miia, and tomorrow I've promised to go to see Maj Karma with Kaisa. When will I have time to read and write? Graaah! It'll be a long, long weekend.
Historical moment last Saturday: I was in a bar in Joensuu until it closed. It was the first time because previously I've always had a bus to catch. My smallish house-warming party on Saturday was alright, even if a bit awkward. I got a lot of chocolate, too. Too bad I don't eat that much of it. Hm.
Virpi and Mikko, on the other hand, brought me pullas when they came to visit on Sunday. I, of course, had baked pullas for them. I made them eat loads, fed some to Krista, ate some myself, gave one to Henna and still ended up throwing one away. I think I'll be quite happy if I don't eat another pulla for the next 6 months or so.
I want to go clothes shopping before the London trip. Now I'm thinking if I can afford it. Possibly.
// edit: My little pooter died completely on Thursday evening and wouldn't re-start or anything. Kari came to see it on Friday, stared it for a while and said there was nothing visibly wrong with it and for that reason he couldn't do anything about it. Then he stared it some more, tried to start it and tadah! it worked. The magic touch. My printer is out of use, but that's a minor problem compared to the whole pooter, really.
Thursday, April 07, 2005
And once again I have the hair of a middle aged lady. Oh bugger.
But apparently there was no choice. I wanted to keep at least some of the length, but because of the (bad!) condition of my hair, there was no way it could've been cut to some cool shape. I'll try to live with this. I'll try.
It might be that I'll pull a Miia and turn up bald next week after losing my nerve..
Besides this 'do, I received a long lecture on taking care of my hair. Like I didn't know all that stuff already. I just have to make myself do it. Sigh. In the terms of hair care, I'm probably the most unfeminine creature there ever was :|
But since both Virpi and Kaisa said they can't make it to the Kari Peitsamo gig yesterday, and I wasn't really up for going alone, I spent the money on hair care products. It's not much what I bought but at least it's a start.
Monday, April 04, 2005
>> \o/ also for the weird-pooter-sound disappearance.
Hold yer horses! The soud came back yesterday. Worse than ever. So apparently, it wasn't the loose screw after all. After crying about half an hour in frustration (I mean, everything) was going so well for the moment), I did some work despite the sound.
But I honestly don't know how much longer I can stand it.
I went to see the 3 rooms of Melancholia yesterday. Saying this makes me feel so very shallow, but I think it was too long. I liked the hypnotic atmosphere there was at times, but still pinching some 15 minutes away would've done it a favour. I am a shameless product of the modern Hollywood generation.
The walls of my new room don't like Scotch tape. Everything I tape there comes down in some 2 hours. Bugger. There's only one poster I want up there anyway, but I really do want it to stay there. I am annoyed. I guess trying the blue sticker stuff is the next step, but I personally dislike it greatly. I'm more of a tape person, really.
I feel like my friends are dissing me and it makes me feel evil.
Friday, April 01, 2005
The. Utter. Exhaustion.
My lord.
Yesterday was a long, long day but we did manage to empty and clean the old flat by 2pm, which is fairly amazing. Today we'll go and fetch the boxes I've got storaged downstairs. Then, no more carrying.
Frankly, I'd be quite happy if I didn't have to carry another box for the next three years.
I've got plenty of closets and things in my new room (way more than I had previously), but not in the kitchen. Some adjusting required as I've got loads of all the kitchen shite. But I'll manage. I just hope Krista the new flat mate doesn't mind me re-arranging some shelves etc.
But yeah. If we get along (which I don't really doubt), I think I'll be most happy in the new place. It feels lovely already and I've still got bags and boxes everywhere.
Woo, woo.
What I am not looking forward to is the four-hour dance research lecture that will start in 25 minutes :| Can't skip it, though. I already skipped the one last night. But it might very well be that I leave halfway through so that Jussi and mum won't carry all the boxes themselves. I know they'll do it even though I told them not to.
ps. Jussi made the annoying screeching sound disappear from my own little pooter. Loose screw, imagine that. But the main thing is that it's gone now and won't annoy me while trying to write something.
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