Weekend

[lady_karelia]

Okay, so Italy is the winner of the 2006 Football World Cup. Just a bloody great ending to a bloody great weekend. Not.

Yesterday was spent running around like a blue arse fly trying to find a present for someone I don't know in order to socialise today. Now, I shudder at the thought of being made to socialise, but unfortunately, this was one of those occasions where I simply lacked my usually sharp mind when it comes to finding a valid excuse *snerk*. So, you can just about imagine how wonderful today went. Not.

It was one of those occasions that reminded me why I don't like living in Germany. The host had invited two sets of acquaintances. I mean, she's nice enough, don't get me wrong, I met her once before and didn't dislike her. So, we got there, were introduced to one set of Muggles people who sat right outside the kitchen in the garden. Thereafter, we were told to move on to the back of the garden, where we would find people we actually know. Well, okay. Dorkboy "knew" them from work (she's a colleague), I've met each of them once or twice before. The Big Boss was there, so everyone felt the need to suck up to him and his Stepford wife *shudders*. Said Stepford wife took one look at me and evidently decided she likes me not. Which was perfectly fine with moi because the simple thought of having to reply to anything she might say to me had me in near epileptic fits.

And all that doesn't even touch on the latest fandom wank, which, yet again, is all about PtQ. I am so glad I'm clever enough to have found the delete key and to have figured out that I can indeed delete messages without having to read them. *snerk*

Something positive now: The weather was bearable.

Comments

[juli-min.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a really draining weekend indeed.

I so understand why you don't like living in Germany. As soon as I finish my studies I'll be off to live somewhere else. Hubby says he'll go wherever I want.

I'm sure he'll come home devastated. He payed a huge amount of money to get a ticket only to see his team lose.

The weather is still to hot for my taste, though at least there is no more water in the streets.

[lady-karelia.livejournal.com]

Ya know, the funny thing is, I really looked forward to coming back here, after an absence of more than 10 years. I tend to make mistakes twice, though, how dorky is that! Went back the first time (to Berlin) and ended up not really liking it. Now I wonder, why did I bother again...

I feel for your hubby. I so so so wanted France to win after Portugal lost.

Water in the streets, ye gods, that sounds like the monsoon we experienced a year ago in Pakistan, LOL. We haven't had that here in Aachen. Haven't had nearly enough rain, come to think of it. I'd much rather have rain than sunshine with those temperatures *grumble* :-)

[juli-min.livejournal.com]

I've never lived anywhere for longer than 2 years. I spent half of my life moving, whether it was to another city or another country. I think I'm just getting antsy to go somewhere else again.

As to the weather, I was so glad when it started to rain, but than it just wouldn't stop. The worst thing was that I didn't now what to do if my little dog decided to go for a walk (a swim more like).

[lady-karelia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think two years is about the longest we've lived anywhere. And I'm getting itchy feet, too. *sigh* I think once the travel bug bites, it's just simply incurable...

Oh dear! So, did little K9 insist on going for a swim?

[juli-min.livejournal.com]

We got as far as the front door, she took one look around and decided that she didn't need to go after all. lol

[hogwartshoney.livejournal.com]

So I'm guessin' that you STILL can't sleep with all the noise in the streets, BIG pity about France in general, and Zidane in particular in that final match.
Sorry to hear that your social adventures with the Stepford Biotch didn't pan out, but then again, you didn't expect them to, eh?
::hugs you::

[lady-karelia.livejournal.com]

It was a bit noisy out there last night...

Nope, didn't expect this particular social adventure to pan out *snerk*. I am, however, pondering the Phoenix Rising. Now, that's a kind of socialising I could tolerate.

[hogwartshoney.livejournal.com]

Phoenix Rising? Enlighten me.

[lady-karelia.livejournal.com]

Click here (http://www.thephoenixrises.org/)

[hogwartshoney.livejournal.com]

O ho. And are you planning to go?

[lady-karelia.livejournal.com]

*nods* I'm waiting for pay day to arrive to make sure I'll get a ticket, lol. Was too late for Lumos, otherwise I'd be getting ready about now to go there.

[charmed310.livejournal.com]

Pity!

Am amused by Stepford wife!

[lady-karelia.livejournal.com]

So was I. Except it got really boring after the first three minutes. LOL

[apisa-b.livejournal.com]

You have to fill me in - I'm quite new on your f-list, so please tell me: You are German, have lived abroad and have returned, or the other way round ...

And I'm sooo glad I have absolutel no talent at all to recognise wank - in RL as well as in fandom. I'm living in my own secluded corner :-)

[lady-karelia.livejournal.com]

Yes, I am by passport. And I've spent more time abroad than here.

You're obviously not on the WIKTT list then, LOL. Sometimes, I wish I'd have my own secluded corner, too, but then again, the temptation is there...

[apisa-b.livejournal.com]

And the passport of which country to you own?

I'm a member at WIKTT, but only to have access to their challenges folder. I've gone off e-mail notification; I tried reading there for a short period, but they were testing my nerves heavily. Potter_place is so much friendler a place to be :-)

[lady-karelia.livejournal.com]

Oh, meant German by passport, American by heritage, or something like that. Child of the universe, really.

Yes, Potter_Place is very much friendlier, I wholeheartedly agree with you! :-)

[ellaselenelupin.livejournal.com]

Yes, sometimes I wish I would live somewhere else; but Berlin is not so bad. Well, except for all the foreigners; Arabs, Turks, etc. It's especially bad here in Neukölln, they behave as if they own Berlin and think they are not bound to German law. I'm startig tio ramble, sorry. I'll stop here or I'll write an essay about foreigners in Berlin.

Last year I said that if Angela Merkel wins the election I will migrate. Okay, I'm still here. LOL! Give me the money and I'm off.

And what is PtQ????

[lady-karelia.livejournal.com]

I'm with you - used to live in the Wedding in 1995. It wasn't all that pleasant then, and from what I've heard, it's much worse nowadays.

Know what you mean about the chancellor *snerk*. Es kommt ja nie was besseres nach *snicker*

PtQ is "Pawn to Queen" by Riley, it's posted on witchfics.org and probably the most controversal work of fanfiction. I think the term "Dark Revel" originated from that one.

[hogwartshoney.livejournal.com]

*lurking*
What's so controversal about PtQ?
*dashes off to read and hopes to emerge unscathed*

[lady-karelia.livejournal.com]

- It starts off with Snape being forced to "rescue" Hermione by means of sex.
- It is abandoned.
- Apparently, the author complained about "having to spend" 40 hours per week to answer e-mails about her story.
- Big time MarySue, apparently.

The first time I attempted to read it, being very very new to the fandom, I could not read past the first page and felt quite horrified that someone could write something like that.
But then, PtQ continued to pop up on WIKTT and in the end my morbid curiosity demanded me to read it *snerk*, so at least I'd know what everyone was talking about. To be honest, I found it not that brilliantly written as some had claimed, in places I found it downright repulsive, and in other places it left no more than a shrug for me.