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Just a quick note: my landline stopped working two days ago, which means that I have no internet at home. (I'm at school right now.)

There's a lot of other stress going on, so I'm not around much. Hope I get to talk to all of you again soon!

So here's some stuff I've been up to lately:

( fannish )

tl;dr: I'm still reading a lot of fan fic, haven't found "my" new fandom yet and don't talk much in fanspace.

( non-fannish )

tl;dr: School! and I'll post more in November.

OK, back to studying (municipal finances. Exciting!) and watching some football.

since I'm not up to posting more substantial entries, I stole this from torachan:

( things that make me happy today! )

So... I'm happy. how are you?

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?

So Vox is dying - I vaguely remembered having an account there and imported it into typepad. Don't ask me why. But! It's a good thing I did! The two weeks I was actually posting there was right around the birth of Nephew1, including an entry from the actual day, summing up the whole confusing story (lots of driving around, for one thing), so that was nice.

And I found this, which I probably posted there to test before posting it to scans_daily

Piper's coming out in Flash:
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DC Comics, the Pied Piper coming out to his friend, the Flash (incarnation Wally West). He's ... totally cool with it. Only not so much. This is actually really funny and realistically sort-of-sad at the same time.

(Reposting here because I'll delete it on Typepad - if I ever use it, it'll be for my non-fandom stuff, and I don't want to link my two online identities, at least not in this direction.)

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.