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Sleepyhead's Back!
Aug. 28th, 2010 05:53 pmI've been wanting to blog for aaaaages, but I've been such a sleepyhead this past week. I got ill around Saturday-ish but it was just a throatache and that wasn't so bad. On Monday, I felt rather the worse for wear and slept the whole afternoon, and although my throat was better, a cold hit me right on. And then my throat got worse again and I had a temperature on Wednesday - the doctor confirmed on Thursday that I had a tonsillitis. You cannot imagine my delight. I had one about half a year ago, and it was pretty nasty. I'm feeling much better now, but I'm scared that I'm going to get tonsillitis again and again and that they'll have to take out my tonsils, and I'm fucking scared of this. Anyway, let's hope it doesn't get to that. :)
I also have some positive stuff to tell you! I got my new glasses and they're soo pretty! I was effing lucky, too - I'd wanted the blue ones, but they didn't have them here in G. anymore. We asked them to order them and they promised they would. They called on Tuesday and we went to get the glasses, and the nice lady (I love her so much I could go to that oculist every day just to talk to her!) told me that when she had tried to order them they hadn't been available anymore. Fortunately, she found out by asking around that they still had exactly one pair of those glasses in D. God, I was so relieved. (Can you imagine what it is like to have your absolute favourite glasses torn from you at the last moment? Pretty tragic, right?) I also have sunglasses, and they're greeeen! EEEEE! (The spectacle lenses too! I mean, how awesome is that? Whenever I put them on, the world is all green and I feel so wicked!) I haven't really worn my new glasses yet, since I'm ill and I want to wear my comfy familiar glasses, but I love them nonetheless!
So, what else has been going on? I read my 45th book this year. I'm really proud of myself. It was The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Frankly, I just can't get enough of Mr Holmes and Dr Watson. It was kind of nice to have an assembly of short stories rather than a longer one since it took me only one evening to read one of the adventures in most cases. Sometimes, I thought they were a little too short to really develop the case though. A client called, they told their story, Sherlock Holmes deduced and la! case solved. That was a bit unfortunate at times, but most of the cases were intriguing nonetheless. Oh, and one of them had Irene Adler in them, the awesomesauce lady from the film! LOVE. This woman. This woman. She beat Sherlock Holmes. She has to be awesome, right?
Now I'm reading Die Medlevinger by Kirsten Boie. It's so adorable! I've already read it once and when I saw my little sister reading it recently, I decided to borrow it from her. Good decision, that. :) Ah, and do you remember me reviewing Don Carlos? I read it during the holidays so I wouldn't have to do that when school had started again, and then my teacher said that we had to make a reading protocol. It was all I could do not to strangle her. I typed all of the information (act, scene, page, line, people on stage, location) up on my computer - effing lot of work that, but I only had to do the summaries while rereading which made it a lot less like annoying work and more like a fun reread! Because yes, it was actually fun. I hadn't grasped everything during my first read because the whole plot is rather complex, but I understood everything the second time round and I just fell in love. Head over heels. Schiller has written such a brilliant play, and I absolutely want to read more by him. I can't wait until we start discussing Don Carlos on Monday.
À propos school - a friend e-mailed me that the lists with the dates for our class tests have been posted on the notice board, and who's of course not at school to copy them, but ill at home? Yeah right, me. The one who's always waiting for them with unholy impatience so that she can finally plan when to go and see musicals. I WANT IT TO BE MONDAY. NOW.
And now I have to put together a more or less coherent report about the American Civil War. So maybe I shouldn't wish for Monday to come too hard.
I also have some positive stuff to tell you! I got my new glasses and they're soo pretty! I was effing lucky, too - I'd wanted the blue ones, but they didn't have them here in G. anymore. We asked them to order them and they promised they would. They called on Tuesday and we went to get the glasses, and the nice lady (I love her so much I could go to that oculist every day just to talk to her!) told me that when she had tried to order them they hadn't been available anymore. Fortunately, she found out by asking around that they still had exactly one pair of those glasses in D. God, I was so relieved. (Can you imagine what it is like to have your absolute favourite glasses torn from you at the last moment? Pretty tragic, right?) I also have sunglasses, and they're greeeen! EEEEE! (The spectacle lenses too! I mean, how awesome is that? Whenever I put them on, the world is all green and I feel so wicked!) I haven't really worn my new glasses yet, since I'm ill and I want to wear my comfy familiar glasses, but I love them nonetheless!
So, what else has been going on? I read my 45th book this year. I'm really proud of myself. It was The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Frankly, I just can't get enough of Mr Holmes and Dr Watson. It was kind of nice to have an assembly of short stories rather than a longer one since it took me only one evening to read one of the adventures in most cases. Sometimes, I thought they were a little too short to really develop the case though. A client called, they told their story, Sherlock Holmes deduced and la! case solved. That was a bit unfortunate at times, but most of the cases were intriguing nonetheless. Oh, and one of them had Irene Adler in them, the awesomesauce lady from the film! LOVE. This woman. This woman. She beat Sherlock Holmes. She has to be awesome, right?
Now I'm reading Die Medlevinger by Kirsten Boie. It's so adorable! I've already read it once and when I saw my little sister reading it recently, I decided to borrow it from her. Good decision, that. :) Ah, and do you remember me reviewing Don Carlos? I read it during the holidays so I wouldn't have to do that when school had started again, and then my teacher said that we had to make a reading protocol. It was all I could do not to strangle her. I typed all of the information (act, scene, page, line, people on stage, location) up on my computer - effing lot of work that, but I only had to do the summaries while rereading which made it a lot less like annoying work and more like a fun reread! Because yes, it was actually fun. I hadn't grasped everything during my first read because the whole plot is rather complex, but I understood everything the second time round and I just fell in love. Head over heels. Schiller has written such a brilliant play, and I absolutely want to read more by him. I can't wait until we start discussing Don Carlos on Monday.
À propos school - a friend e-mailed me that the lists with the dates for our class tests have been posted on the notice board, and who's of course not at school to copy them, but ill at home? Yeah right, me. The one who's always waiting for them with unholy impatience so that she can finally plan when to go and see musicals. I WANT IT TO BE MONDAY. NOW.
And now I have to put together a more or less coherent report about the American Civil War. So maybe I shouldn't wish for Monday to come too hard.
