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26 June 2009 @ 02:08 am
Good morning, this is your wakeup call!  
I'm back. And I am just a tiny bit out of sync with this city. On my way home tonight I missed my station for the first time in years.

Vacation was great. Just a little on the short side...

Fun facts: Madeira is roughly the size of Berlin (794 and 892 km² respectively) while not even having one tenth of the population. Most of which is crowded in a few areas on the coast.

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23 December 2008 @ 11:22 am
Sitrep (7)  
I'm home for Christmas. And I am determined to enjoy every minute of it.

Contrary to what my second to last entry said, my new job wasn't actually ahead but pretty much upon me. The day after I made that entry I got a call: "Um, could you get to work sooner. There's this thing we need to get done..." - "Sure, how about tomorrow?" - "Really?! That would be just great!" So, I turned up, got shown around a bit and then sent right to work. And pulled 45 hours in 7.5 days. Which, for someone who hasn't been working for quite a while and also tends to need eight to ten hours sleep a night, turned out to be quite a change... Even though that work almost got obliterated within a few minutes, everything turned out well in the end. We'll get to see whether we did good enough some time in February or March. And, just now, I've discovered I have been paid already. Which is a very good thing indeed as I've already spent some of that money during Christmas shopping.

Now, what else to do with my newly discovered riches?

I have finally ordered my ticket for next year's FedCon. Everything's gonna be OK, I get to be there :D

Also, I'm currently weighing my need for a new notebook against my need to go on vacation. It's really not so much the 'not working' part that makes the latter for me, but the going somewhere part. And I haven't had that in more than two years. Which, for me, is breathtakingly long. So, I'm kinda in favor of just tormenting my current notebook some more and go to Corsica to do the GR 20 first. It's supposed to be the most beautiful long range hiking trail in Europe. Appearantly, since the last time I was considering this, the situation concerning provisions on the way has much improved. If you avoid the main season - which you should do anyway because of the heat - it's also quite feasible to not take a tent. Also, the trail is perfectly waymarked - given my less than stellar sense of orientation that's quite important. As there are quite a few people there at any given time (in context of mountain trails, that is) I was actually thinking of just doing this one on my own. Turns out my mother would like to go with me. Which would be really nice. Anyway, I've already bought a guide, we'll work that one through during the holidays and then we'll see. If it's a go - whether with or without my mom - I'll have to do some training till June.

Last but not least, happy holidays to everyone. Or just happy days, if you're not the Christmas type :)

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31 August 2008 @ 08:38 pm
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Hey, I don't blog for a very few *cough* days and Livejournal goes and revamps its editor. Slightly. But I finally can strike stuff. See?! Nice. (And yes, I am being serious, I missed that.)

Aaaaanyway....

I've been in hospital again, for about a week. Pretty much the same tests all over again. So, spinal tap again. Yay... There were no nasty side effects, however. So really, yay!! No results yet either, I have another appointment in just four more weeks. Waiting's fun. Also, discovering all the little and not so little effects that problems with your neural system can cause is even more fun. Today, for example, it's "every day I turn my head with some amount of speed it feels like my brain is lagging a bit behind". Not actually painful or anything, but irritating nevertheless.

Also, there are a few unrelated doctors I really need to go and see. With all the fun I've been having recently, I've been pushing a few things off for a while.

What else is new? My dad has cancer. Which, of course, is pretty much at the bottom end of the suckscale. Haven't had enough of that already... However, as cancers go, his appears to be a downright friendly fellow. Or rather, if it was everything it appeared to be, it was all that because then it's gone already, cut out last week. He's still in hospital, but everything seems to be going very well. *knocks-on-wood-and-crosses-fingers*

In other, decidedly better news, I got to hold an 8 day old baby recently. Which I totally loved and adored to be able to do. And that hadn't even been my "nephew" yet....... I so need to find the woman of my dreams and get that frakking thesis finished...

What else? I'll be back in Berlin tomorrow.

Oh, and my flatmate will be buying that PS3 soonish.

So, there are some silver linings after all.

However, I've been neglecting some friendships recently. I'm aware of that and will try to do better. If you feel neglected in any way, please drop a few anvil sized hints or knocks on the head!

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13 June 2008 @ 08:41 pm
Sitrep (5) & QuotesЯUs (7): No Time  
"This is no time to talk about time. We don't have the time!"

Deanna Troi, Star Trek VIII - The First Contact


No time to blog anyway.

I am with my parents right now, I need to go see doctors (surprise...), do bureaucratic stuff, read (Yes, I really need to do that, I just miss it too much otherwise.) and, right now, I need to finish this entry to go cheer the Dutch. Which, as a good German, I am not supposed to do, but I really do like them. Can't help it :-)

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29 April 2008 @ 12:14 pm
SITREP (4): Serpent's Teeth  
Well, the little suckers are gone. So far, so good. Right now, I don't feel a thing, the pain meds are still active. I'll just pretend they're gonna last forever and I'm gonna be fine.

Pain meds btw are nice and good but didn't stop the procedure from sounding like he was trying to pull something right out of my ear. *shakes-with-disgust*

But, the real highlight: I actually got to keep them. Yeah, I know, it's gross, but appearantly my mind is geekish enough to appreciate being able to actually get a look at these (frakking huge) do-no-gooders.
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11 April 2008 @ 07:49 pm
SITREP (3): I have the snout full  
<disclaimer>If you want to get your happies, this is not for you.</disclaimer>

Yeah, I know, the title isn't actually English, it just happens to look like it. It's Denglish in that it is a word by word translation of a very common German phrase meaning "I am fed up to the back teeth". (Heh, that's oddly fitting. You'll see soon enough.) So, what happened to get me into my current state of delirious joy and why the hell ist this my first post in weeks?

Life happened, doctors happened. I know, what else is new? That's what exactly I've been thinking all the time. But let's just start at the beginning.


I've been seeing a neurologist because of the pain in my arm. He did some tests, all of which were normal, and as I had mentioned headaches also had MRI of my brain done. (I don't even have an inkling of an idea whether that sentence is grammatically correct. Is it an MRI? Can you even do it that way at all? Whatever.) The next time I see him he does not seem to be overjoyous when looking at the results. Well, look at that, there are funny little shapes that aren't supposed to be there, you'll have to go to hospital to get a spinal tap. Sure, that sounds fun, let's do that.

Now, I've never been to a hospital as a patient before (besides being born, yaddayadda, we all know that particularly helpful nutpick). I could have lived on very happily without having to go there now, but what the heck. The leaflet informing me about what's going to be done calls the procedure "mostly painless", so I expect it to be painful. Rightly so. But, not to worry, the needle just goes in and out and then that's done with. Enter the nurse: "Oh, we'll have to do that again, there wasn't any fluid." Yay, great... (To be fair, she was very nice. Let's all remember to never kill the messenger...) So, let's do that again, oh, the pain's different, but it still hurts. If it didn't that might actually be intriguing, but right now? Not so much.

All right, we're done, just lay down for one to two hours and you should be fine. Some people get serious headaches though. Some also get really nauseous as in they can't keep anything in their stomach for two or three days.... Dear readers, meet me aka "some people". I felt seriously sick for four days afterwards and had headaches of the my head is gonna explode variety whenever not lying down for a little more than a week. They also did quite a few more tests, including taking what felt like at least two liters of my blood, but mostly I remember those only as "things that require me to get up".

They didn't find anything conclusive, which - as much as I'd appreciate some clarity - is a good thing as they were looking for multiple sclerosis. MRI still shows these shapes though, so this is far from over. I've had to go see several doctors since then and I'll have to go to hospital again later this month. They did promise not to put any pointy objects into my spine this time around so I'll just cling to that.


While all of this was going on somebody else spoke up, too. Mr. 36, one of my molars that's been causing me trouble before, chooses this time to show me what trouble really is. Really, I've had toothaches before, but compared to the little fireworks I felt this time they were minor annoyances. Every time my tongue just lightly touched that f***er I felt like screaming. I get some antibiotics ("don't even start taking painkillers, they won't help anyway") and it actually gets a lot better. Then hospital. Then I get some temporary filling, then it acts up again. More antibiotics and "I'll see you again next week. If it hasn't gotten any better by then we'll have to pull it out." Fun of funs.

Today was "next week", and everything felt fine, no pain at all so I was being quite optimistic. My doctor decided to do an X-ray to be on the safe side and the next thing I hear is the German and doctorish equivalent of  "Oh, fuck." Turns out one of my wisdom teeth has decided growing upwards is no fun at all. Ergo, it's not doing that, it's not even just a little slanted, it's completely horizontal pushing right into the rest of my teeth. Clever little Mr. Sideways will have to be removed, of course, as will Mr. 36 which has quite literally been crushed to death by the stupid thing. While 36 is a matter of simply drawing the tooth out, the other one actually requires surgery. All of this will have to be done as soon as possible "preferrably next week." 'No fucking way in hell' is what I think at that moment (FedCon's next weekend), but I actually manage to make that into "that's not such good timing" before it leaves my mouth. So, this will be done after hospital. Can't wait for it.


Oh, I also had acutte bronchitis last month, but guess what, that sorta pales in comparison.


So, now you know. As I said, I have the snout full. Completely. Also, I realize I'm switching tenses all the time. That's on purpose and was done to illustrate my extreme fed-upness *cough*

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29 January 2008 @ 10:59 am
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My arm's not getting any better. I am, however, getting crankier by the minute. I wonder whyever that might be...

Actually, it's not just my arm anymore. My shoulder hurts, my neck aches, and - joy of joys - my other arm is obviously applying for membership in the "let's annoy the hell out of Geli"-club, too. As if not being able to type weren't enough, let's conspire to keep her from using her computer at all, that will be fun!

On the bright side, my doctor decided to let loose a whole battery of diagnosing devices. X-rays didn't show anything, hopefully one of the others will. Boy, am I ever fed up.


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24 November 2007 @ 09:54 am
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It's been quite a while. No doubt my gazillions of readers have had countless sleepless nights, wondering what has happened to me. Here then is the update you've been awaiting for so long, breathless with anticipation.

A lot has happened in the meantime. Not.

My arm still aches. Not only is it not getting better, it's actually getting worse. Despite several different therapies during the last weeks and months, Madame "give me my Internet or give me death, I need my online discussions and the occasional game" is reduced to typing mostly left-handed and so very slowly. It's frustrating to no end. At the moment I'm getting acupuncture. I also got a small apparatus used to give my arm electric shocks. Next step probably will be X-rays... That also means I'm still living with my parents for now and miss Berlin a lot.

On the bright side, less time at the computer and lots of time waiting for doctors has resulted in a real burst of reading. I'm enjoying that immensely and will write more about it in the next entry.

I've met with my tutor again and we've agreed on my main goal being to finish my studies, not winning a Nobel prize. It's good to know we're on the same page now. I also got a very tempting offer by my father, assuming I'll be able to finish my thesis by April. Yes, I can be bribed ;)

Peter Jurasik has also been announced for FedCon. I'm not sure how I am going to manage, but I just cannot miss this. I mean, we're talking Peter Jurasik, Bruce Boxleitner, Morena Baccarin, Jamie Bamber, Richard Hatch and Roxann Dawson (listed by priority).... That also means I'll want to do a Londo vid, too. Fortunately they've managed to pick the two characters I actually have a lot of ideas for.

I'm also playing another round of Travian, the online game that has robbed me of a lot of time during the last year. I didn't really plan on doing so, but it is one of the few games you can play by only using a mouse... I'm not playing nearly as "serious" as the last time around though and am just about to move out of the central area that is no doubt going to be war-ridden again. The real reason I'm talking about this at all is because I'm naming my villages after places in Norse mythology, something that has been fascinating me for a while now. I hasten to inform you that the world developed out of Ginnungagap, which also happens to be the name of my starting village. The next one is going to have a lot of farmlands and therefore will be called Folkvang, after Goddess Freya's palace as she is the goddess of fertility (among other things).

Last, but not least, despite my arm, my mood is pretty much spectacular :)

Next week I plan on seeing Atonement and doing my first bit of ice-skating in this winter.
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