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Sunday, March 14. 2010  we’ve all done it at one point in our lives. regardless whether the receiving end was a parent, a neighbour, a friend in kiddiegarden, a teacher or someone from telly or the silverscreen. we’ve all, at one point in our lives, worshipped the ground that someone tread on. it doesn’t matter whether that time lasted a moment, a day, weeks, years, … it doesn’t matter who it is that we’re feeling so excited about. a child’s teddy bear can become the ruler of the universe just like the greatest folk-hero that n/ever lived. but: where does this need for hero worship come from? what are its limits and failings? what its benefits?
Continue reading "hero worship, or: we’re all guilty" Wednesday, March 3. 2010 the awesomeness of doktoväter and other academic stuffPosted by rita in nur soComments (0) | Trackbacks (0)  last week, i attended a block seminar in the institute for eastern europe studies. our group consisted largely of students from the german department, a handful of students of eastern europe studies -- and me as the representative for the english department. the seminar was great; i learned a lot -- and in nine out of ten cases i had not a single clue what the others were talking about. talk of the whooshing sound of a topic going right over your head. they were a nice but scary bunch of phd-students. bouncing off cultural theories off each other as if they hadn't done anything else during the last ten years of their lives. scaaaaary!!!
Continue reading "the awesomeness of doktoväter and other academic stuff" Wednesday, March 3. 2010  a few weeks back, major kindly provided a picture of her cardboard cut-out torino. i finally managed to take my camera along to my Continue reading "my new car" Wednesday, February 24. 2010  we only got to meet a couple of times during my last visit to wales one year ago. but we clicked instantly and had a couple of animated conversations. this is how i will remember duncan tanner:
Continue reading "here's to duncan!" Wednesday, February 17. 2010 Monday, February 15. 2010  birgit and i went for a walk through berlin on friday afternoon in order to secure some tickets for the world premiere of the restored metropolis. (we were short of ten people in front of us when the box office closed. dang!) on our way to the friedrichstadtpalast, we crossed one of the many bridges across the river spree. this is what we saw...
Continue reading "friday afternoon in berlin" Wednesday, February 10. 2010
2) made someone laugh 3) eating my first kimchi Saturday, February 6. 2010  after six years of studying english literature, i still can't remember shakespeare's birthdate. but somehow, somewhere in the past 29 years, i have picked up that grover cleveland was the only ever non-consecutive POTUS -- which i suddenly remembered on watching the latest episode of QI as soon as stephen fry asked how many people had taken the presidential oath.
Monday, January 11. 2010
so. outline. because, lets face it, if i don't start conquering my demons pretty soon, there's hell to pay. probably even quite literally. Continue reading "why?" Saturday, January 9. 2010  every winter, the crows are gathering in this city in order to survive the cold season. the colder it gets, the bigger the swarms. one of the great side effects of this phenomenon are the dancing swarms every evening. single flocks gather together every evening to create one big swarm before they settle down for the night in the trees around. but see for yourselfves below.
Continue reading "the dancing crows" Friday, January 1. 2010  instead of just counting off the different stations of my life in the past 365 days, let me just show you, what i did on the occassion. spanning from one new year's eve to another, it seems like most of my activities have been taped either by night or underground with an equal lack of proper light.
Continue reading "my year 2009 in videos" Thursday, December 31. 2009
have a great evening filled with fun, friends, music and laughter! but also make sure that you all get home savely. after all, i want to see you all again next year! ps. images taken from the gold rush (1925) and stiched together by ce moi. pps. and whatever every media outlet is saying, decades have never lasted 9 years! we still have one more year to go for the first decade of this century. one more year to mess up or make good. let's pray for the latter one! Wednesday, December 16. 2009  sitting here with my breakfast (cheese on toast and a welsh tea with milk), watching the snow fall outside and looking forward to watching the gold rush on the big screen with a number of people in the english department this evening. it doesn't need much for happiness.
Wednesday, December 2. 2009
let me just say, little gestures like that are the best picker-uppers in the world. a little bit of validation of what i do here at the university with teaching literature and cultural studies sure helps LOADS. because, frankly, i most often get the impression that my seminars are one thing above all: pointless. but every once and a while there's something like this... Continue reading "validation" Tuesday, December 1. 2009  |
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1) finished marking the first-years' exams
i have finally started outlining my thesis. most of you are probably now asking, 'what the hell has she been doing the past year?' well, it's easily explained. although i have all these crazy and wild ideas flying through my head, i hate pinning them down. i hate being nailed onto the concrete word. i don't want to be pinned down. of course, resistance is futile. who ever was awarded a title for being silly? (apart from chaplin! but he was a genius in his own field. i'm not even going there.) 
when i came to my office today, i stopped by my pigeon hole really quickly just to see whether some of the house mail had been delivered and if some form had to be returned. there really was a form that needed signing, but on top of it all, there was also a small paper envelope.
