Vince, Foppy and Bumbly....

What are you doing? I especially liked the bunny with the mask and the turtle with a tool. But they have got more very funny comics. Just click around till you find the loch ness monster... that one is pretty brilliant as well.

And this one has been going around the internet for a while and I have found reactions to it being pretty widespread. But for me I laughed and I laughed and I laughed until I cried...
My boyfriend even came out of bed to see what was so funny.
It would be honest to say I liked Johnny Cash's way better then NIN's, but maybe this one was the best.

Setting the inner nerd free

Since I am trying really hard not to act as a girly girl and since I am definitely NOT going to get married in the next couple of years... a wedding band post...
Sorry.. But I think I have found mine... It's called Binary
and you can have it engraved with your own personal message in binary code.
They make these rings of recycled gold and I thought it was a good idea.
I know it is ridiculously expensive.. (at least for now) but as my boyfriend always says: Oh I know your taste...Of all things, just get the most expensive...
So here I am... wedding bands... Or as my best friend (girl) would say: "No.... you are a girl... you read girl magazines...' with utter disgust dripping from her voice :)

Beperkt Houdbaar (Best before...)

This evening I watched the documentary "Beperkt Houdbaar".
It's about how women tend to look at themselves and compares themselves to the images they see in beauty magazines and on billboards.
I know we photoshop the hell out of every feminine image we get to see.
I know there are no woman out there, who could possibly look like these images.
But growing up amongst guys, and especially the last couple of years on a campus dominated by men... I am wondering... do these guys know that?
One sentence in the docu struck me, I do not know the exact phrases, but it was something about people looking with their hearts, in stead of looking with their beauty measuring tools. I felt glad I was surrounded by so many people who where looking at me with their hearts. But then I started thinking, part of being an accepted woman in a group of men is being able to judge other women by the beauty measuring tools. (Look at her... oh yeah thanks, I nearly missed her..)
So now I do feel weird, for being the only girl in a group being looked at with a heart.. and I feel guilty for judging, where I should be the one to know why you shouldn't.

Nice

Yesterday when I was all upset because of my tutors, graduating and everything I once again learned the value of good neighbours.
I had a running gag with my nextdoor neighbour, that when I would finish my chapter, I would get an ice cream. For motivation purposes it seemed to work pretty well. After being offered an ice cream, I worked hard and I was two hours work away from finishing Second day, didn't finish it. Third day.. didn't finish it either etc etc.. So after two weeks, I finally had finished working on it, so I asked him....well.... do I get my ice cream now..? Well no... of course not.... after two weeks.. you thought there were any left...? Well.. ok... no ice cream....
Yesterday when I had to rewrite my chapter (which I thought was really good for a change...) because my tutor didn't understand what I was saying (maybe you should be more involved, and maybe a little technical knowledge would hurt you.... oh no, let's not make this personal....)my other neighbour offered me an ice cream...
Well it's for motivational purposes, and since our other neigbours isn't here to motivate you I guess someone has got to do the job.... I thought it was sweet... Very sweet... I felt truely taken care of.

Not important enough

Somehow it is hard to imagine the distractedness of philosophers....
Today is the second day in a row I have an appointment with one of my mentors for my graduation thesis....
And it's the second day in row, I am waiting for them to show up....
Because apparently.. They keep on planning meetings at the same time we have an appointment....
Two days in a row...
Yesterday when I finally met with my tutor he tried to blame it on me...
So then I was stunned.....
Today there is some kind of emergency meeting with some important people...
I am definitely not important enough....

Hear this!

Well. Ever since I started this blog I keep forgetting things I want to post here.
So now before I forget it again, I want to give a big shout out to Jonathan Coulton.
He did a song a week project a while ago, and his songs are brilliant.
Go to the songs part of the site. If you want to be a dogooder, buy the entire cd...
And listen to: well.... if you like or dislike... Ikea
if you're a big fan of christmas: Chiron Beta Prima
DNA has been my alltime favorite. And well just go and listen to it and be sure to read the lyrics that come with it.
Well. I finally posted here something after I had forgotten it soooo many times....
Oh and one other thing... I ordered the gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster... but you can check that out for yourself... ( I think I already posted the correlation between pirates and global warming here once....) Am I now a real Pastafarian?

Terrorists

Yesterday I saw a little item about Larry King. Well these items have been all around, so nothing new there. But what fascinated me was a tidbit with Nelson Mandela.
Larry asked Nelson: Have you been a terrorist?
Where Nelson replied: Well, being considered a terrorist depends on.....
Where Larry finished the sentence: On who's winning.

And there it was... so much truth in the words of what has been considered a great tv personality and what has been considered a freedom fighter.
I think there you have our war on terrorism... it all depends on who's winning and who is broadcasting it.

Feel good

Today was feel good day. (well, after my hangover disappeared at 6 p.m.)
I had finally talked one of my neighbors into having dinner with me. My boyfriend is out of town, and I do not like cooking for me alone. I cooked actually pretty good food. It was really easy but good. Afterwards we went for a walk towards the Easter Fires. It a tradition in the part of The Netherlands where I live, to lite huge fires on the first day of Easter to get rid of the bad spirits.
It reminded me of when I was little. And it was like nothing had changed. I am still really intrigued by this huge pile of wood, burning. And the sensation of standing so close to the fire and getting your face all warm and glowing.
Back at home I baked a cake for tomorrow, to eat with my family. It was a welsh something something cake. I took the recipe from a book about spices, so I actually put a lot of spices and flavors in it. And Oh-My-God. This was the best cake ever.....
I decided to make some chocolate milk to go with it. Made with real dark chocolate, milk, cinnamon and a little bit of sugar. Well that must have been the culinary high point of the evening. Wow this taste is so intense and full. It just makes you all slow and happy and extremely satisfied.
I think I will take my slow, happy and satisfied me to bed now... mmmmm.....

Things I will give my self if I graduate.

I keep on thinking about all the nice stuff I will by myself when I graduate.
Or, I am postponing buying extraordinary expensive things for me.
First I think I will by myself about victoria's secret underwear. And not the extremely fancy stuff. but the 5 for 25 dollar strings. I bought some when I did my internship in 2004 in Tucson. And have been loving those damn things ever since then. Too bad they do not have VS stores in the Netherlands.. So I would have to order them online and for the shipping costs, I could have bought another 5 thongs... so... that's why I make it a present for me...
Next thing I will buy myself some of the best chocolate on earth there is. I know there are a couple of very good brands they sell online. But it's really expensive. So I will only buy it when I really deserve it, graduation that is...
I think I would order myself some of the Flylady stuff that's online. I know... (for those of you who don't know flylady... it's a cleaning and getting organized program online flylady.net)
I am a little weird buying cleaning stuff online, (dusters... :o) and their new calendar and the I am proud of you pencils. But for some reason I believe I deserve them. I have been kind a good for a while now cleaning and being organized :) And I believe these things will only make it easier.
And last but not least... ( I probably just do not have the money for this one, so I will put it off until I get my first real paycheck.. or my sixth... or well it's expensive)
I would like the Nikon D80.... I started taking up photography since a month or so... borrowing the D50 my neighbor owns... and I would like to have my own one...
For some reason I feel materialistic and stuff but I thought about it for a while. I think I only buy things that make me happy in the long run. (Well chocolate.... ehm.... let's consider it developing my taste buds :) but underwear has served me for 3 years, it's still good and oh my god... it still makes me happy)
And I know I would really love to have these things.... I also know that after graduating there probably isn't a penny left in my bank account :) So I guess I will keep postponing it and longing for the day I will order these things... and in the mean time just happily looking forward to it....