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I'm leaving for my holiday this evening and will probably be internetless for at least a week. (Unless my sister goes into labor in the next four hours, in which case I'll be staying with her.) Don't break anything while I'm gone!

My flist knows everything!

So. I'll be in Austria in September. And since it's really close and I've never been, I'm planning a trip to Slovenia afterwards - about a week. So far I'm planning to go to Maribor (because it's pretty and because it's really close to the part of Austria I'll be starting out from) and Ljubljana. I've just rediscovered my love for travel by train, so that's probably how I'll get around.

So: ideas? cities / landmarks / people I should see?

(Guys, I love travelling. I'm so thankful I can do it! Also, I'm still around, just not... well, let's not get into it. Just - I love you all, even if I haven't been talking to you!)

( cut for depression talk )

Fannish news: I've been reading LotR fic, rereading the book and watching the movies (in that order. *g*) I blame ratcreature. I read maybe two fics when the movies came out, so it's all new to me! It's also the first time I start in on a fandom via delicious, which is actually pretty cool. Of course it's probably pretty dead by now, but at least I can still find a lot of fic.

What's weird: I don't know what I want in this fandom yet. Usually I imprint on a genre / pairing early on, read everything there is and afterward expand into other stuff. But in LotR I read long gen fic, but then came upon those loooong elfsex pwps and liked at least some of them, too, then Legolas/Gimli, then the Boromir-Survives genre, then.... and I can't tell which I like best. I read book!verse and movie!verse. (I didn't read the RPF yet because I'm afraid I might like that, too, and I don't need another new fandom now.) I might be most impressed by fic quality here! Which is a first for me... *g*

So: Anyone got LotR recs? Fic, meta, vids, any genre? What did you like?

Back from Canada, back in my timezone, back on my computer. Hurrah! Back to work tomorrow, which is not quite as hurrah, but I don't actually mind.

I hope I'll get around to posting some pictures, but now I have to make this place at least somewhat habitable. I always mean to do this before leaving, and yet...

I want to start something like torachan's Daily Happiness thing, but I'm crabby enough that I'll start with all my (relatively small, to be fair) grievances! *g*

( cut for whining, don't click! )

OK! I feel better already. *g* I'll get on with the happy things now!

This was linked in the comments of a blog post: It's 50 works of dramatic and epic literature everyone majoring in German Language and Literature should read (in the opinion of the Uni Bielefeld). I think I'll work on reading all of these, most of them seem interesting.

( Don't you just love lists? )

Since it's a Uni list there's almost no contemporary literature and - as seems common to book canons - too few women. Two? Seriously? Makes me want to make a list of women authors...

Still, it's stuff I've wanted to read for a while, so why not?

ETA: Nothing to do with reading, but since this is a German-centric entry, it's sort of fitting: Youtube in Deutschland: the reason I won't click on your Youtube links.

yvi mentioned that there's not a lot of "international" in Talk Like a Pirate Day.



Lotte Lenya - Die Seeräuberjenny

Or if you prefer the English lyrics - Lotte Lenya, 30 years later. Completely different, still awesome.



*sigh* I love her. And I love the song - I recommend surfing around youtube for other versions, there are a lot. Apparently there's one by Nina Simone, too, but I can't access it. I hate the music industry.

Bushido mahnt die Piratenpartei ab. Weil nämlich jemand aus dem Vorstand (!) bzw. unter Benutzung des offiziellen Piraten-WLAN, das schlecht gesichert ist (!!) Bushido-Musik (!!!) auf einer Filesharing-Plattform angeboten hat. Hach, isses nich schön.

This is probably only funny to German readers anyway, but the gist of it is that the German Pirate Party got caught file-sharing music over their network.

4:0. Wow. This was even better than last Sunday. Germany played really well, didn't leave Argentina a lot of chances (even Messi, who'll probably want to forget this whole championship as soon as possible) and acted as a real team.

That's something most of the other big teams were missing: actual teamwork. I'm really glad that the German team does it so well, maybe the eternal "Leitwolf" discussion will finally die - that is, the assumption that you have to have a player who's the leader. The last instance of this was when it was certain that Ballack won't play, but I think the team proved that they don't need one.

That's another thing: it's not the championship of the big stars, and I actually like that. Here, have a video: ( Nike Worldcup spot )

Of course these are just players that have a Nike contract, but it's still interesting that a) most of them didn't shine in the championship and b) most of them are already out. (Ronaldinho wasn't even there in the first place.) And I don't mind that. I'm all for fangirling players (Miro Klose has 14 World Cup goals now! Same as Gerd Müller!), but I like it that the team's the most important thing.

And who knows? Maybe it'll come true! ( 54, 74, 90, 2010 )

Wow. I love football right now. Maybe enough to watch Bundesliga again... after all I have a team right here.

It's been a long time since I could get drunk from a patriotic Eurovision drinking game! (Lena's really cute, so I can understand it. *g*)

I overdosed on her song weeks ago, but still.... *wibbles*

ETA: OMG OMG OMG SHE WON!!!

(and my home team won a European cup, and another German team has a chance at the Champions League cup tomorrow. I'm happy!)