...so I could personally show the world exactly what colour does the tap water look at the moment. A couple of hours ago it was of nice dark brownish yellow, an hour ago warm water had an icky yellow hue but the coldest possible water was clear... at the present time the water appears relatively clear but I have no interest none whatsoever to go and take the shower I need since I can't be sure it's not Nokia or something all over again.
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Okay, so my land lord just dropped by to see my so very nice looking collection of glasses with water in different shades of yellow I've collected over the past two hours. According to him it's okay for me to shower but... I think I'll just wake up at six tomorrow and go to the gym to shower while all other that are there at that time are exercising. Seriously, I have many traumas resulting from (junior) high school PE classes but nothing beats my rejection towards group showering. Since I have no interest in showering here until the cause of this has been unveiled or the water runs clear for three days (it takes about two days until possible bacteria will take my neighbours to the hospital with excessive diarrhea, urinary tract infections, possible fever and such).
List the given authors, check (!!!) and see if you passed the test.
1. 5 British authors
2. 5 French authors
3. 5 German authors
4. 5 authors from other countries of Western Europe
5. 5 authors from Central and Eastern Europe
6. 5 Slavic authors (except Russian and Czech)
7. 5 Russian authors
8. 5 Czech authors
9. 5 authors from Southern Europe (except Italian)
10. 5 Italian authors
11. 5 African authors (NOT African-American!)
12. 5 Asian authors
13. 5 authors from Australia and New Zealand
14. 5 authors from South America
15. 5 authors from USA
16. 5 authors from Canada
17. 5 current authors (published works after or since 1980)
18. 5 antic authors
19. 5 classics
20. 5 authors that won Nobel prize
1 point for every correct name.
• In questions 4, 5, 6, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 19 and 20 (i.e. all questions where you have to name authors from certain region), count down 1 point if all authors you stated are from the same country. (Count down another point if that country is your own.)
• In question 18, count down 1 point if all authors are from Antic Rome or Greece.
• In question 20, count down 1 point if all authors are anglophones.
• In all questions where you have to give names of authors from only one country, count down 1 point, if all authors are from the same literary period or movement (e.g., if you state 5 Russian authors, but they are all 19th century authors, you scored only 4 points)
You need 76 points to pass the test.
76 – 80 points – E
81 – 85 points – D
86 – 90 points – C
91 – 95 points – B
96 – 100 points – A
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My score: I got a lousy E. 8/ This is humiliating...
During my little brother's Wanhain Tanssit last week I saw this beutiful dress one of his co-students was wearing. The moment I saw it I knew that would be the model for my wedding dress (see, I'm thinking positive!), especially the colour and the material. As I was browsing through Nulikkaprinssi's blog a while ago there was a picture of the lower part of a dress (you're Wanhain Tanssit dress, by any chance?). The flower-or-something embroidery makes a very nice addition to my wedding dress-to-be.
... Book of Revelations part x: it would have been completely out of the realm of possibility for me to draw the picture of my dream wedding dress,say, three years ago. Hell, I didn't even think I would ever marry any woman. Good to be wrong. ;)
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Playing now:
'Perfect enemy' by t.A.T.u. Back to Her...
The bad side if Finland and its gay scene being so small is that if there are others like me in the family eventually I'll notice. If not face-to-facce, then by accident I take a look at their Favourites linklist and notice similar links to my own, as in keskustelu.seta and ranneliike. This'll be interesting in the future. I just thought he was metrosexual. =)
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I get to go to the gym today! YAY!!!
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I got to spend time with my nine-month-old cousin for three days. It seems that the beginning is always a bit slow but quite quickly I find confidence to hold her, to say no if necessary (she's learning to crawl, so quite a few time she was on her way to electrical cords or in danger of hitting her head), to feed her, to help dress her. My next mission is to learn how to correctly change the diapers and to dress her on my own (including how much clothing and what kind is required for certain activities) and to "cook" the food, to know when it's of the right temperature.
You know, babies may look alike, but they certainly display their own personality early enough. My cousin does certain things always in a certain way.
Maybe I get to experience all this fully with my own child someday.
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Now playing:
'All I need' by Within Temptation. This song would make a nice lullaby, don't you think.
I woke up at six a.m. to go to the gym for SpinnPump. Proved to be very much worth the four hours of sleep I managed to get last night. The instructor (right, I haven't told you about her before...) happened to be at the reception at the same time and was amazed to see me there that early since I usually go there in the evenings. Since it is Valentine's day, she hugged me. I've kind of been fantasising about that (among other things) for a while now, even though she's married to a man.. and she's absolutely gorgeous and funny to be around. ;)
And I think my annual hug quota is beginning to meet the limits.
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We also got to be the first ones in my town to try out the new Pump coreography. After hearing that there are no pauses in the breast song I was considering of decreasing the amount of weights, but eventually it turned out it's not any worse that the current one with the pauses. The back song, on the other hand, has many pauses. I guess I have to wait a week or two to get to try out more of the new release.
What happened today easily makes up what happened on Saturday. I accidentally came across with M with whom I had coffee (this phrase is beginning to bother me...) last May. I ran into her a couple of weeks ago, after not seeing her for about seven months. Today I ended up having a coffee with her again out of the blue; and you know what? I liked it, even though I was awfully conscious of me staring at her but she didn't seem to mind (she talks quite much and for a chance so did I). And now I'm smiling. Who the hell cares about a bloody straight guy when I can socialise with women and enjoy the time which in this case was two hours. Didn't even seem that long!
Okay, a nice meme from millikan. And the rules are as follows:
1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random - the first article on this page will be the name of your band
2. quotationspage.com/random.php3 - the last four words of the last quotation will be the name of your album
3. flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/ - the third picture on this page will be the cover of your album
My band is named after a protein =). The name of the album turned out to be part of a quotation by a woman (I modified the search a bit the second time); the first quotation was not intelligible. The picture took a few tries (yes, many sunsets...).
The band... I think the name strongly suggests black or death metal with a few power metal characteristics here and there. And since we are a metal band, the name of our band *must* be very difficult to read from the cover, hence the Symbol font. Gloomy lyrics, lots of grunts and heavy guitars in a mid-tempo. The provocative title reminds me of the System of a down album called 'Steal this album!'.
He showed up almost ten minutes late, by which time I had already began to relax since I thought he had stood me up and I wouldn't have to go through this thing at all. But no.
It was so awkward. And it was so annoying when he was trying to behave like a gentleman (!!!) by offering to pay my soft drink since it was him who "asked you out" (!!!). I mean, come on! I'm butch enough to pay for my female date but nobody pays for me. And the discussions... the awkward silences, pluggy subjects, me staring in other directions half of the time... okay, the fault was in me. I don't get why I even said yes. Maybe it was that nearly begging tone in his voice.
But nothing beats the ending. I should have somehow fished out of him the location of his apartment. That way I could have claimed I had to go and help my sister in some of her schoolwork without ending up hiding in a staircase (it wa actually the building my sister lives in, I just knew for a fact she wouldn't be home) fo ten minutes and sneak out of the back door and take a very long way home (Belgium, that sounds *so* pathetic now!).
Yup, I really wanted to escape from his presence. Mainly I didn't want him to see me to my apartment and know exactly where I live (although I guess he could find that out through some of the 16400 number finders). There's something creepy about him, anyway. He's like the stereotypical rapist: seems so kind and understanding (and spineless since he doesn't seem to have many opinions of his own...) and that he-couldn't-hurt-a-fly thing going on that there's no way in hell it's for real. Therefore it must be a show to gain trust to make the tower of illusion come tumbling down.
Or I'm being extremely sceptical towards all straight men. Even if I didn't apply the rule to all of them, I'd still treat them the same way just in case the guy happens to be in the majority of the bad ones.
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Update on 20th of February: this week we've briefly encountered twice. Yesterday I saw him but he didn't notice me until I was already crossing the threshold. Today, just a few minutes ago, he walked past the IT class I'm in and he saw me as well as I saw him from the corner of my eye. I really do hope I son't have to talk to him ever again. He's so condescending! And the idea that he, a straight man, knows better than me what I, a lesbian, need. Undoubtedly that something he thinks I need is a good fuck from a right man (emphasis on the word 'man'). I think I know better when I say he needs a bloody katana up his ass.
I saw Her today (a result of conscious choice of time and place). There was nothing odd in the actual event: She looks at me, smiles and says hello; I do the same. But something keeps bothering me. I feel as if something had changed. Whether the change has taken place within me or within Her I do not know, but I sensed something being different.
It makes me restless, this foreboding feeling.
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What the Hades is wrong with my digital receiver?! It keeps losing the visual part and if I adjust the AV cable it loses the sound as well. Plus the remote control refuses to respond to my pressing the buttons. The picture is sometimes fragmented and I'm not even going to say anything about the subtitling.
Digi, digi...
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Stay tuned for tomorrow. I'll be having a cup of coffee (or something with no caffeine, more like) with a guy I know from the university. It's not a date, though, and he knows it as well; when he asked me for a coffee today I replied that my answer will greatly depend on his motivations, and that I am a lesbian and thus have no interest in him now or in the future. He said he'd like to have a coffee with me anyway. So now we're going in a café tomorrow once I've finished my exam tomorrow by three.
I'm not sure how it's going to go, or whether I want to be that much friends with him; I think an acquitance would be enough for me, someone to have a coffee with occasionally but nothing deep.
You know what? My therapist is going to go berserk on Monday because of this. I wonder if I should even tell her about this. Otherwise she'll annoy me by trying to convince I really don't hate men that much. Yeah, right, whatever.
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Playing now:
'Rock this party' by Bob Sinclair. The Combat choreography for this was actually really nice. And I can still remember most of it. ;) And the video is funny.
And I don't know whether I like Gwen Stefani's 'Wind it up' lyrics at all...
