I went to martinemonster  and 3ff3ct3r 's going away party last night. It was a great (although short) party, and I got drunk. Usually when I get drunk I do (mostly) funny and charming stuff like dancing badly or insisting on everyone present playing silly games. Last night, however, I think I showed my slightly less charming drunk side and that I was probably slightly annoying... Oh well. I've already had my punishment. I'm actually hungover today. I am hungover. I never get a hangover.

I was going to give you the tale of my drunken walk home in my extremely slippery shoes, but I think it was probably more interesting in my head when I was still drunk this morning.

Why do I always end up sitting next to some kind of freak in the study hall? Why do all the annoying idiots want to sit next to me? The person next to me is almost always someone who clicks their pen without stop, has not turned the sound/vibration on their phone off, or, like today, keeps cracking her neck every two minutes.

I was planning on documenting my day by taking one picture each hour. However, as I used my camera taking said photos at home this morning I forgot it at home. I'm so smart it hurts.

Edit 10.02: I also forgot my Literary Chinese book.

Have I told you that one of my flatmates is a violinist? And that she practice at home? No? Well, she is a professional violinist, and she practices at home.

Lately it feels like I'm always busy, but yet it seems I never get much done. Does anybody else ever have that feeling? I think it might be because all my lectures break up my days so much I never really have time to sit down and concentrate on my reading and writing. Maybe I should try to blog my day some day to see what I do with all the time? Anyone else want to do it with me? In your own blogs, of course.

I overslept today. Why? I accidentally pressed the off-button instead of the snooze-button on my phone... Then I forgot my phone at home so that had to go back home from the subway station to get it. Then I dropped my phone on the tile floor in the girls bathroom. Also, today is way less cold than yesterday, so I was wearing too much clothes (threw some of them off when I went back to get my phone), so I got all hot and fuzzy and fuck up my already bad hair.

I've spent the last hour surfing the internet, just to calm down, so that I can get some writing done.

At least this day can only get better.

Edit: More than 1/3 down.

I have a Chinese paper due on Sunday at 24.00, and so far I've written 1/10 of it. The theme is really boring, so it's not like it's magically finished in my head just waiting to be written down. Blah. On the bright side, Ive gotten to spend a lot of quality time on facebook today...

In other and completely unrelated news, I just remembered I have a pair of flat winter shoes in my aunt and uncles attic (or at least, I hope so)! Yay!

Anybody up for doing something this weekend? If I manage to finish my paper today or tomorrow that is.

It's been snowing more or less non stop since I came here in January, and it seems like it will continue for at least three weeks more!

In other news one of my shoes fell apart during one of my lectures today. Like, litterally fell apart. Half of it's sole just got totally loose, so I had to go back to the store after my lecture to try to get a new pair. (I bought the shoes just a month ago at DinSko.) And the girl there was really helpful and service minded. It was no problem that I din't have the receit with me (I don't carry stuff like that around), and I could change it in any pair of shoes (for the same price) I wanted. She also suggested I find myself a pair of shoes on sale (as the winter is coming to an end), so that I can get a card with the rest of the money to use on another pair of shoes later. Which i did.
My new shoes are not as practical as the old pair (they'd run out of my size), they are not water resistant and are not flat, but I have a card (that is valid for 5 years!) that I can use to buy more shoes later, so all in all, I ended up with two pairs of shoes instead of one. Yay!

I can't have that depressing post on the top of my blog, so I'll give you some random ranting instead.

-I had the last shot of my hep A+B vaccine almost six hours ago, and my arm is still sore. I never get sore from vaccination shots. I was planning on swimming* today, but with my arm feeling like this, that will be uncomfortable at best.

-I have been at school since 8.30 today, and still haven't started my Chinese essay which I was planning on writing today. Instead I've wasted a hell of a lot of time on the internet. (I've also done some Classical Chinese homework and gotten the hep vaccine shot.)

-I have no pants. I've been wearing skirts and dresses over leggings since mid November. I need some pants already! My God, I'm tired of wearing skirts by now!

-I got so used to eating out in China that I can't seem to come up with anything to actually make (at home) for dinner lately. Any suggestions? I do not eat any birds or mammals.

*They say you can't do hard exercise the day you get a vaccine shot, so silly me thought swimming would be a good alternative.

I've said before that i don't really thrive here (and especially that I don't thrive in the University environment), and some of you have asked me why.

Although the weather is terrible (the winter lasts for ever, it's been snowing all day today(!)), it's not because of the weather. It's the people. Yes, the people. Both the people I know and all the other ones.

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I changed the theme here. The old one was too Christmasy, so now it's officially spring in my blog, even though it's snowing outside.

Anyways.

I'm having a 30stp Chinese exam  at 11.00 tomorrow. Am I prepared? Nope. I haven't even read all the texts. I hope I get one I've actually prepared. Cross your fingers, or something.

In other words, I'm not planning on spending my weekend studying, so if you want to hang, please let me know:)

And if you're wondering how I can justify wasting time on the internet the day before the exam I'm not prepared for? Well, I'm at a lecture right now, but really, I can't justify it.

I'm sure of it. Especially when I call them in the morning. Twice. And when they don't pick up I send them a text saying "Pick up you phone, Snork Maiden (Snorkfrøken)!", before I call them again.

Oh, and this person hate Snork Maiden.

I'm in class right now, and the lecturer is really not very good. For one, she just read what shes written in the power point presentation, only she reads it like it's the first time she's reading it, so sometimes she just stops and pauses mid-sentence. And sometimes she just pauses for a more than a minute for no reason. Awkward.
Also, she says a lot of inaccurate stuff. Like, she talks about Siddharta Gauatama as if he actually was a prince. Which is a myth.
Gah. And I can't drop this subject, I have to take it to get my degree.

And now she placed me in a seminar group, made me the leader and gave me effing homework.

I'm sitting next to a sniffling, moaning, mumbling dwarf who hits her keypad as if it were full of roaches she needs to kill.
All the other desks with electricity are taken.
Please just kill me now...

Lately every day has been a bad hair day. In part because my hair is both too short and too long at the moment, and in part because I'm wearing a hat "all" the time (because it's cold). It would probably also help if I at least tried to make it look OK. But, you know, I don't have a lot of time, no blow dryer (this is a big problem as it means I can't make the fringe I cut in December look like it should), and not a lot of hair products. What to do. Should I try to cut it again? Let it grow? Make an effort to style it every day? Ignore the problem?

I usually try to at least look like I care what I wear, but today I completely failed. My "dress" is too short, there's a hole in my leggings and my hair looks like a disaster.

On the bright side my facial skin has been getting better (it didn't really like the polluted air in BJ) after I starting having really hard work outs again:)

I've forgotten my fathers birthday!
My entire family is born in late winter/early spring, so on the subway on my way to uni (yes, I study on a Saturday), I was thinking about the upcoming birthdays. And then I realized, my fathers birthday was this week! I feel so bad. I've just been so busy lately I didn't even think about the fact that it was my fathers birthday.

I feel so bad, because my father is the kind of person who notices this kind of things and get sad.

I love my boring every day life. Get up in the morning, eat breakfast, take the subway to uni, study, have classes, work out, and then home. I feel like I get something done and I feel tired in the evening, the way you feel when you've done something all day. My subjects are all very interesting (or, ex. phil. isn't, but the four others are). So yay!

I other news, my ex. phil. seminar leader is an Euro-centric idiot. And the seminar is mandatory. I'm going to fucking die. Why did I choose the seminar module instead of the exam module? Idiot-me. Seriously. And he treat all his students as slightly retarded 15-year olds. And I have 13 or 14 more seminars to go!

Anyways.

I went to my first yoga class since China today. And it was great. My favourite instructor is just as good as I remember her, and taking a class I "know" with an instructor I know, kind of felt like coming home. Yay!

I've set up my work out schedule for the next year. Mondays I plan on taking a high pulse class and then a yoga class, Wednesday will be yoga + swimming or cardio/weight lifting, Friday will be cardio + weight lifting and Saturday will be an extra long yoga class (stars at 10.00) and swimming afterward if I'm not completely dead from last nights adventures. I had some pretty bad Saturday mornings last year in that very same class...

In other news I'm having my housewarming party on Saturday. Yes, this Saturday. Short notice, I know. If you think you should be invited, but haven't got an invite, just give me a call and let me know.

Also, in case you were wondering, I had no problem getting up for my class this morning. However, as it turned out, there were no class today. So me and a bunch of students just sat there, waiting. Luckily, one of my good friends had signed up for the same class (without me knowing it!) so we went and had tea instead.

I just discovered that I've signed up for a subject that starts at 08.15 tomorrow morning. I have no idea why I did so, but I'll try to be there. Wish my B12 deprived ass good luck...

Also, martinemonster , thanks for complimenting my hair today. I really felt that I looked like a dump, I especially thought my hair looked bad, so it really made me feel better :)