May 2013
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My dad has just taught me how to hack the system after I called to ask if my parents had a second copy of my birth certificate. The BVS wants $25 a copy, plus an $11 fee for processing an online order, plus some unknown credit card surcharge, and I’m NOT paying all of that—especially since I wanted to buy two copies!
He told me that I can take the copy I have to the bank, and...
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Update!
Work/My Knee: I had my knee evaluated again last Tuesday, and the official verdict on the injury is that I don’t need surgery, but the joint is still going to be getting inflamed and hurting so long as I keep valeting. Since I can’t quit my job (as no one else will hire me for only three months), I basically just have to suck it up and deal with the pain until September. It’s...
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You know those annoying ads on the side of your Facebook?
Facebook just offered me a free online English language course for German speakers… in German.
Uh… what?
Also, I promise I’ll write a real blog soon and update you on what’s going on with my life, London, and the novel. Promise.
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You guys.
I… I don’t like ST:ID.
I need to go cry in a corner over J.J. Abrams mistreating my baby.
Boo. I really wanted to like it, too.
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I hate everything.
I needed a 4.0 semester GPA to get my cumulative GPA to a 3.6 and graduate magna cum laude.
My grades came in this morning. Three As, and one A-… which makes my semester GPA a 3.98, and my cumulative GPA a 3.58.
I LITERALLY MISSED GRADUATING MAGNA CUM LAUDE BY TWO-TENTHS OF A GODDAMN GRADE POINT. WHAT THE FUCK DID I DO WRONG?! WHY DID I GET A FUCKING A-?! I DON’T FUCKING...
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Things I am doing in my official commencement photos:
-standing awkwardly
-flirting with the college Dean
-hugging the university President
-throwing the horns
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My professor wanted press thumbs with me for luck in grad school
what is my life right now
also I think I got like maybe a B on that final which is not bad but ugh I don’t fucking know German wtf why is it so hard
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heeheehaahaahoohoo:
in germany we don’t say “let me hug you” we say “lass mich deine seele dem herrscher der finsternis opfern” which translates to “i never want to let you go” and i think thats beautiful.
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sorrel-ly replied to your post: So, I guess Wednesday and Thursday, some weird…
OPHELIA THANK WHOEVER YOU’RE ONLINE now let me bury my head in your German-hating shoulder bc the only one I could talk to atm was an aspiring German teacher and THE EXAM WAS AWFUL AND I’M SCREWED
SORREL SORREL SORREL OH NOOOOOOOOOOOO
inbox me with whatever frustrations you need to plz
(I actually have to go...
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So, I guess Wednesday and Thursday, some weird weather phenomena happened, and you could see Canada from the lakeshore. Normally the curvature of the Earth makes it invisible, because it’s fifty miles away, but I guess there was some rare light refraction thing that happened because the lake was still really cold, and it’s been really hot out, or something…
Just a reminder...
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jpkitty:
In college, we don’t say “I love you”, we say “I have 5 essays, two finals, and 3 group projects due in the next 8 days” which translates to “I would like to be crushed by a train” and I think that’s pretty cool.
April 2013
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I’d like to announce that I just had some pretty bangin’ sex.
Pun intended.
NOLAN YOU FUCK
WHY DID YOU BRING AN ACTUAL GERMAN TO CLASS
GOD DAMMIT
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I just had to explain the concept of “queueing” to one of my classmates.
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squick-too-quick:
I just wanna make characters that people care about. Ones that someone will analyse, and defend to the death, and try to understand down to the very last fiber of their artificial being. Is that so much to ask?
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“I think that might have been a bit harsh, Ellie,” grumbled Lukas, turning to watch the two women walk away.
“You can make it up to them later,” giggled Miss Tyler, swatting him on the arm. “I’ll bet you twenty euros.”
“Make it fifty?”
“Deal.”
The familiarity with which Lukas and Miss Tyler routinely addressed each other still bothered Klaus, even if he should have been used to it. He...
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My life, today:
You can always tell when it’s a UK holiday: 99% of the time my family are just normal Americans with quirky habits, but on certain days of the year my dad puts flags outside of his house and starts making crazy Facebook posts and drinks tea all day; it’s like living in a crazy England-themed amusement park.
The RTA has closed the train between a couple of stops on the west side, so...
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“What unites Discworld readers? “They are serendipitists,” says Pratchett,...”
– Terry Pratchett: ‘Fantasy is uni-age’, The Guardian (22 Apr 2013) Accessible: http://m.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/apr/22/terry-pratchett-raising-steam (via precocious-porcupine)
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cafemusain:
i want to produce a reality show where they drop anglophiles into average british living situations to film the bitter disillusioned tears
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vision-or-wakingdream:
sorrel-ly replied to your post: casually starts rewatching doctor’s diary at 9 am
in honor to that I’ll have a spam of him
opheliasalt replied to your post: I’m starting to taste and smell things again!
Fact: “schnupfen” is one of my favorite words because a) it’s an onomatopoeia and b) it’s funny as all hell. I’m glad you’re starting to feel better! <3
*googles...
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BRB, laughing at my own dipshit characters
“Right, Klaus?” Lukas nudged him in the arm.
“Of course,” he muttered, not having a clue what he was agreeing to.
He had been cornered by Lukas and a couple of women in suspiciously tight dresses. It had taken him awhile to realize that they were the contractors his friend had been flirting with at lunch; their necklines—and hemlines—were proving too much of a distraction, and Klaus was having...
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youkillmypatience:
youkillmypatience:
the title of my autobiography is going to be “that’s not how you spell my name”
volume two: that’s not how you pronounce it either
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sorrel-ly replied to your post: amythestquill started following you Hello!…
oh, who are you trying to kid, it is ALWAYS that weird on your blog. I followed you for posting a picture of Bundeswehr-uniforms and your caption basically said “dude how hot is that even avfixdbclkdfale”
amythestquill replied to your post: amythestquill started following you Hello!…
I was indeed! I...
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amythestquill started following you
Hello! Please, please, please say you were drawn in by the “white foam of chicken” debate…
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sorrel-ly:
opheliasalt:
sorrel-ly replied to your post: sorrel-ly replied to your post: sorrel-ly replied…
I don’t think it’s pate … where is it placed? dessert or …? (WE WILL FUCKING SOLVE THIS PROBLEM)
ENTREE. Which supports my chicken-in-white-sauce theory.
okay okay I give up
it wouldn’t be a problem if you we’re half-british.
I also give up because meat isn’t my area… like .. I...
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I should be working on my novel and instead I am obsessively trying to wrap my mind around the concept of white foam of poultry
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sorrel-ly replied to your post: sorrel-ly replied to your post: sorrel-ly replied…
I don’t think it’s pate … where is it placed? dessert or …? (WE WILL FUCKING SOLVE THIS PROBLEM)
ENTREE. Which supports my chicken-in-white-sauce theory.
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29 Things Only People from the Midwest Understand →
“Soda”? LOL, OK.
Did you mean, MY LIFE?
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sorrel-ly replied to your post: sorrel-ly replied to your post: So, sometimes,…
well, the grammar is one issue, but the other one: in german you don’t differ between the animal and its meat. I honestly tried to find the meaning of WHITE FOAM OF POULTRY but .. no. No idea. *facepalm*
The only thing I can think of is that maybe it’s chicken in white sauce. I mean, conceivably it could...
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sorrel-ly replied to your post: So, sometimes, when I’m researching stuff for the…
i have no idea what even ONE of those things is :O
I think whoever “translated” this either ran things through Google Translate and/or had a really shaky grasp on English grammar and vocabulary.
Like, “cream soup of lobster” actually more grammatical (and literal!) sense than what we...
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So, sometimes, when I’m researching stuff for the novel, or just for my own amusement, I run across things that have been poorly translated out of German for English audiences… some of them are really laughable.
I’m currently giggling at a hotel banquet menu. Most aren’t bad: “cream soup of lobster”, “pasty of deer”, “creme brulee of the...
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Novel scheiße [excerpt]
Here, have a 3,158-word gift. It’s not very good, but considering that I have been pretty MIA with writing since January… well, I felt like I owed something to Tumblr. The last half of it will get reworked a lot, eventually, but in the meantime—enjoy.
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The door opened slowly; Weiss stepped into the room, one hand lingering on the doorknob.
He looked…...
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I love writing Matthew Taylor. He’s almost completely shallow and really a worthless character, but he’s so, so fun that it doesn’t really matter.
Besides, he makes Klaus angry, and I like writing angry Klaus, too.
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internetexplorers:
Great First Date Conversation Topics:
is it pronounced gif or jif
is it pronounced F-A-Q or fack
How far was the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe in 1989 responsible for the collapse of the USSR in 1991?
ummmmmmmmm
if I were on a date and question three came up
1) COME AT ME BRO
2) let’s make out
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I’ve written two paragraphs and I think I’d rather throw myself in a snake pit than continue analyzing freaking Bierstadt
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Double whammy.
Today in German class, I got made fun of for both being British AND studying Nazis!
Usually it’s just one or the other.
