Ah... A beautiful example for one of those many things I find so fascinating about flamenco:

"There are so many cultures who have passed through Andalusia... And a language has sprung up from all that common ground. It's true that flamenco is one of the clear examples that uniting cultures, races or religions can create something in common, something to be shared."

From an interview with María Pagés. A great dancer, especially when one looks beyond her appearances on 'Riverdance' (or the fact that she danced for Bush's inauguration *shudders*). Not that the dancing was bad or anything. :)

I just realised again how much these lyrics (My Mind's Eye by Sirenia) are Noirin...

If you were here
I'd whisper sweet nothings in your ear
And appeal to all your fears
If you were mine
I'd bring you so much further down
And twist your mind until the end of time

You will never realize
What darkness lies inside my mind

If you are down
I will come to chain you to the ground
And penetrate your mind
If you are lost
I'll be there to break you trust
And ravage all your lust for life, my love

You will never realize
What darkness lies inside my mind

So, my Cueetie, want to write some Noirin/Talaith to them? ;P
Even if I actually see them more fitting for Noirin and "puppy-guy". But I'm still so happy that you actually like the whole Noirin/Talaith thing and don't feel like it's forced into the story. :)

Wow, haven't really written anything here for quite a while. Well, life was busy and definitely going up and down.

Had a job-interview on Wednesday. Great job and all, but they picked the other one. Said that we were basically both as interesting but the other one had more experience in that field. No clue if that was true or not, they had to say something after all. Also not sure whether it'd be good thing or not if it was actually true, it made me quite worried about my future job-perspectives.

On the other hand, I got the confirmation that my pure terror when it comes to oral presentations is apparently not visible to those who watch/listen to me. Seems like I'm coming across as rather confident, with clear speech and presenting the stuff in a comprehensible/coherent way.
Yeah, I have a tendency not believing people what they're saying but rather read between the lines, interpret (and "occasionally" over-interpret >.>) and watch their reactions. And the prof in question looked so completely astounded and unbelieving when I said that I really have problems with oral presentations, that I'm inclined towards believing her words. ;)
That's good to know, especially since we have to do those damn presentations in every freaking seminar.
Well, that was a nice thing. That and her saying - after she had a little hissy-fit at most of our group concerning the fact that 'studying' means taking responsibility and being proactive - that I'm on the right way, that I should dare to even take a step further since it will be something really good coming out of this...

Yeah, that kind of made up for not getting the job and worrying about how it will be in another 3 years or so. I don't really like this professor, to be honest. She is not my kind of person but I do respect her on a professional level. And she will be around, so if I make a good impression on her, I might be able to use her as a future reference. And further more I'm still planning to trying for a doctor's degree after my masters.

But enough of this now. I've got some dragon eggs to catch. ;)

For the first time ever I've finished a story. O.o
As in, a "real" story, not just a one-shot. A 71'852 words story.

It feels nice, in a way. I've never managed to really finish something like this before (talking about quantity here, not about quality). Still, somehow I've expected to feel even more accomplished... But maybe it just hasn't hit in yet or I have to get over it that it's probably not "literary" enough for me. Or it's just because the actual "story" is not really finished with this but just the first part out of that "ever-growing-project-spawning-more-and-more-parts-and-plots" aka "Pytt i Panna" aka "Tha' Crap".

Well, done with A Price to Pay and moving on to Travelling Paths. Maybe. We will see. Depending how much my wife is wanting to read more of this stuff. ;)

Woooooooohooooooooooooo!!!

10345 Vorlesung: Neolithikum 1: Neolithisierung und
Ausbreitung des Neolithikums: das Alt- und Mittelneolithikum

Mit dieser Nachricht wird Ihnen mitgeteilt, dass Sie die
Leistungsüberprüfung für die genannte Lehrveranstaltung mit dem Ergebnis

PASS

bestanden haben.

Just for future reference because I can't believe it. :D

[...]
Destiny is calling,
Immortality be mine.

[...]

Today the blood of battle,
Upon my weapons will never dry.
Many I'll send into the ground,
Laughing as they die.
[...]

Maybe if I play it over and over again, Cael and Noirin will finally shut up? *hopeful*
And I don't even like Manowar that much. -.-

38,011 / 50,000 (76.0%)

Urgl... And now my wrist hurts, @.+
But if everything goes by plan, I'm going to be finished by Sunday and then I'm over with it. I'm almost tempted to do it like my wife and try for a double- or triple-NaNoWriMo but I think I'm skipping out on that. I have to concentrate on school again which has been sadly put aside during this week. In which I did NaNo. O.o

Heehee...

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=814

Oh gods... Why do I really want to see Snape and Sephiroth facing off in a duel to the death now?
...
Mrow!!! *.*

And no, I would not pair those two off with each other. Way too weird, even for me. But watching two nasty guys kicking each other's ass... *purrs and cackles*
Sweeeeeeeeeeetie! When can we watch Death Note again? *puppy eyes* ;p

Now back to middle bronze-age pottery. Middle bronze-age pottery is good for me, yes yes.

How to get your wife hooked on *insert random anime of choice*

Show her Apocalyptica's I don't care (with that Three Days Grace singer) and lots of purty scenes with bad guys and repeat until brainwash is completed.

Death Note here we come! *cackles*

Now lets watch that amv just one more time. ;p

Taking a break from school work (having to wait for the library to get my books ready is always a good excuse ;p) and being too bored to do anything else, I've re-watched the intro to 'The Devil wears Prada'. And was hit by sudden revelation.
I'm such a city girl. -.-
As much as I adore and also need nature and loathe people, seeing the streets-scene and thinking of how we're having it here in Basel and how it was to cruise through Bern last weekend... No, I really couldn't live somewhere out in the nowhere. I'd go insane!
I love it to just go around the corner to a bakery and pick up some little snack and a coffee. Or go to Namamen or for sushi whenever we feel like it (and can afford it). Or stroll through the small back-alleys and find beautiful buildings and sceneries we haven't discovered yet. Or go to the botanical garden. Or just browse along the book-store whenever the fancy strikes. Or have the option to go to a café or the cinemas or a museum or whatever else if we suddenly feel like it.
The thought of being stuck in a little cow-town where I'd need a car to be somewhat independent and where the neighbours are sticking the nose into everything and anything makes me want to run faaaaar away.

I guess my ideal life would be to have some little cottage out in the woods or up a mountain or at a remote lakeside where we could spend the weekends and holidays or where we could just go to whenever we need some calm and want to get away from people, but for the actual everyday life not be further away from a nice city than the suburbs.
But then again, we're two in this and if my sweetie suddenly decides that she'd love to live the country life, I'd definitely give it a try. It's her after all who'd have to put up with an even more insane and easily bored wife. ;p

... because honestly, I have better things to do than watch monkeys dance around and the outcome of it seems so obvious and unstoppable anyway.

However, there was a comment here that sums up so perfectly what I really despise when it comes to Palin (and people like her):

Here, here.
Why does she illicit the anger in me? Her "hunting", "mavericking", "hockey/PTA-moming", is so transparent.
No true hunter chases animals down in a private plane.
Mavericking isn't firing State government leaders who don't fire her sister's husband.
If she wants to be ruthless, be ruthless. If she doesn't, then don't. But, don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining, because it's not.

Fact is, if she actually really were ruthless, I'd at least respect her for that. Certainly not for her politics and POVs, but at least for that. It might sound sick but I'm of the opinion that we need more ruthless women for the view on the female part of the population to finally change.
But she isn't ruthless (to be fair, she also doesn't want those views to change so it fits, I guess). And so I really don't know if I can even say that I hate her or that she scares be because either would require some sort of respect from my side. No, I just despise and pity her.

*

Because I'm incredibly bored and have nothing better to do.

( Meme )


*

And the truth of archaeology was once again revealed!

http://www.faans.com/index.php?p=1742

But that's not why I'm studying it. Not at all. Nopenope. *whistles*

Woohoohoo!!!
Just got the confirmation that I can take part in the museum-practical course next term!!! :DDD
Don't really need the credit points (have more than enough already O.o) and it terrifies me like crazy (hell, speaking in front of "classmates" and visitors) but I really, really hoped I'd get in anyway. It's a great chance to learn something about a potential future working place and it's always a good thing to get connections. As in this case, to the one who's in charge for archaeology at the Historical Museum of Basel.

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D Scaryyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!! O.o

And now off to meet my wonderful and lovely wife!

Thank all unholy and holy entities that ever have been, are and will be thought existing...
The Euro is finally over!
So the Spanish won and while I´m not really giving a fuck in the slightest, when it comes down to Spain vs. Germany I´m glad they did. They haven´t won in quite some time, it seems, and I´m at large just more inclined towards the Spanish than the Germans.

However, now we just have to get it over with the damn honking and yelling and then Basel can finally go back to it´s normal self... Or as "normal" as it ever is. O.o

We got money... We got freaking money!!!
We'll have as much money as we used to before I quit at the bank. No, wait, scratch that. We will have more since my sweetie has more work now and I have no deductions pulled off from my stipendium/scholarship as it is the case with salaries.

Gods this feels so GOOD!!!

When I took this new job I was so sure that they'd cut down on my stipendium since I'm earning about twice as much now but they won't. I'm still getting as much as I did during last school year! :D
No worries about how to pay food at the end of the month anymore! :DDD

*dancing to re-read letter again since I can't believe it*

And I still can't believe it... Probably won't till I see that whole bunch of money on my account. ^^'

These are so Noirin, especially the last two parts. I'm always amazed all over again whenever I hear this song.

...

Through the dreadful storms, across the frozen oceans
I have come from the dark lands with sorrow in my hands
The firewind rages in the sky
And my luminous sword hungers for more
I will leave no one alive
For I am the Slayer of Light

I... I will break your will
I... I will crush your faith
I... I will slay your dreams
I will reclaim the stars and I will tear your precious world apart
I will tear it apart

I will pull everything with me under the surface
And all the screams will fade into my dreams
Fall now! Dying light!
I will burn away the ground beneath your feet
And all will be vanished in the darkness
Dying light! Fall now!
And let the night arrive

(Ensiferum - Slayer of Light)

I really start liking that character more and more, and I'm not sure if that's good. The last thing I want is her ending up as a Sue or totally cliched or whatever... O.o

We got a bottle of mead! And a drinking-horn, which is as purty as the boys we were stalking with our camera all day!
Yup, we had a great day at Spectaculum (a medieval festival in Germany) yesterday. Now we really, really want to go to the next place that is close to us as well, or at least I do. ;p

And for those who like stuff like that (ren fairs, medieval festivals, etc.) and are either in Germany or might be going there at some point between April and September/October, here's a link:

http://www.spectaculum.de/
(Sadly all in German.)

I'm even being a good pimp here and am not mentioning that not everything was all historically correct. (I swear, sometimes I'm amazed that my wife is still willing to go with me to fairs/festivals and also movies like that. Must be a pain to have an archaeology student along. But I guess she knows that I'm enjoying it greatly, despite my random comments. ;p)

I'd post pics from yesterday but my sweetie took much better ones than I did (here for example; and she'll post more, too). That and I'm too busy (*cough*lazy*cough*) right now to go through all the tons we took (have I mentioned that there were preeeeeeeeeeeeeeetty guys with long hair, swords and skirts? - And my all lesbian wife likes looking at them just as much as I do. ;P), find some acceptable ones that were taken by me and re-size them.

Gods, I so love my studies! Loooooooooooooooovvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvve them!!!

Just came back from a talk with our "teacher"/tutor/instructor/whatever to call her (she's not a prof yet) about my topic for the UFG-paper. We all have to write a 10-12 pages paper to get the full 10 credit points for UFG for the first two terms.
So we chatted a little about me wanting to somehow work with the Danish marsh sacrifice-places and suddenly she throws up the idea that I could make a comparison between Nydam (one of said places) and La Tène (famous celtic cult-place here in Switzerland) as in: "comparison of two cultic marsh/water-places used by two different people of different times - their specific archaeological artefacts, cultural parallels and differences" or something like that.
Apparently nobody has done this before and it's very unclear how much one can get out of it, but I'll be totally free and have to find and bring together all the necessary publications on my own (something I absolutely adore doing even if it drives me utterly kooky), so...

Mrow?! *___________*

I soooooooooooooooooooo love my studies! ♥♥♥♥♥ *is in academic heaven*

The only problem here is that it's just one of the small papers, which means 10-12 pages.
-.- I wrote 10 pages about some silly statue last winter and now I have that much for a topic I'm really interested in? It will be a pain to chop it all down to that. -.-

Still... Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now off to vacuum-clean and then prepare my presentation for tomorrow.