Ridiculous ramblings, really

No, still no up to writing real entries.

ridicully@livejournal.com — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:19:11 GMT

I'm thinking about telling my landlord I'm moving out of this flat at the end of March. Not because I've already found a job or new place to live, but because I think it will give me the kick I need to stop talking and start changing things.

I'll post more about my plans - or at all - once I've stopped freaking out.

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There's no way around it.

ridicully@livejournal.com — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:37:11 GMT

I just love Merlin.

I don't know how to describe this week's episode but SQUEEEEE!
I've never been very coherent but this is an all time low. And I don't care. My love and squee aren't rational. They just are *g*

Need more Merlin icons. Also need to make a Waily!Feegle icon. Most of all need to talk normal again.

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I can't really tell if what I'm talking about are spoilers or not.

ridicully@livejournal.com — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:15:57 GMT

I don't know if short and superficial posts are better than no posts at all, but since they're the best I can manage, the question really is irrelevant.

Anyway, even though I live in a cave and didn't realize it was time for another episode of Doctor Who already, I really liked Waters of Mars once I noticed (because my circle started raving) and downloaded it.

I always like the Doctor's exuberance, even when it has a more than manic note in it.
And the drama was good drama.

Talking about it without a cut isn't going so well, but I'm too ~~tired~~ ~~busy~~ lazy to look up if I remember the code correctly, so 'I liked it. I *really* liked it' will have to do.

And now that I've posted the entry before I meant to, I'll wander off and search for new icons, because I've been feeling like it.

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ridicully@livejournal.com — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:24:13 GMT

I started the first weekend in a month that I did not have to drive 300+km somewhere with sleeping 18 hours.
That's what you get after working the day and the night shift at the clinic and than half a day at a congress as well. Would have been a whole day at the congress but Mme Organizer was everything but and won't notice I wasn't there the afternoon, seeing how she didn't know what I should do over 90% of the time I was there.

I plan to spend the weekend with lots of Criminal Minds, Merlin and other fanish things.
I'm also supposed to meet M. to advise him on which media server and associated appliances to buy.
Maybe the weekend will also include a useful entry here. Stranger things have happened.

Off to be busy!

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Back from /-Treffen. Dead for now

ridicully@livejournal.com — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:55:56 GMT

I've driven over 1500km in the last 60 hours. I've seen over 2 hours of vids. I've met new and old people. I've listened to one CD on repeat for the last 10 hours.
I've had lots of fun - but no internet for two days.
My brain needs to settle before I can write a more coherent entry.

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After quiet follows rambling

ridicully@livejournal.com — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:42:06 GMT

First of all, thanks to everyone for the conga rats!

While I'm not finished with the diss by far, waiting for Prof. Blub to read it, is something completely different to not having written it yet. It feels good.

After my very frazzled entry, I had a very nice birthday. Boring, but nice. Long bath with silly book (reread Pope Joan, still not particularly good but enjoyable nonetheless), which I hadn't allowed myself until I finished either (books, not the baths) sleeping for a few hours in a freshly made bed, more reading, dinner with M. (no one else could make time to come, such are the joys of our place of work) - on our own our conversation tends to the awkward, live was easier in Kindergarten when it was still possible to say "I like you, can I be your friend?" without having to justify it - and did a clean install of Karmic Koala on Lachesis.

Today I avoided killing the Bitch Queen From Hell once again (barely), saw a Boa throw up 70cm of carpet and a dead rat and our head surgeon fix his trousers with Backhaus clamps.
I live a surreal live at the best of times.

Now to finish setting up the computer with everything I want, start on the case report, maybe read the articles for the journal club tomorrow and most importantly acquire all the TV series I did not watch in the last six months (or maybe I'll wait until the weekend, I might get pimped something new at the Querstrich meeting...)
Oh! I nearly forgot. I need to play around on Google Wave for a bit as well. Most of it sounds so cool, I've wanted to try it out for a few months already.

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IT LIVES!

ridicully@livejournal.com — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:35:58 GMT

Hi, this is ridicully or Alex, who used to post here occasionally.

That is until work killed her dead and she made a deal with herself not to post any more until the first complete draft of the dissertation was out of her hands. I've been reading and - very occasionally - commenting on dreamwidth and intend to catch up on LJ as well. But, the point is...
I turned in the first draft. I don't have any control over when Prof. Blub will read it, but it's out of my hands. Dear gods but the words "Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung des Grades eines Doktors der Veterinärmedizin" scare me to death.

Now, in an attempt to avoid freaking out completely, I'm going to have a bath, sleep for a few hours and enjoy the rest of the day (I worked the night shift today, hence the having the day off.)
Expect much babbling to happen around here for the next while.

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I like the title μ-con

ridicully@livejournal.com — Sun, 31 May 2009 10:37:06 GMT

At kriski's. dirtyzucchini's also here.

There was pimping of The Mentalist and Sherlock Holmes and I've been told there will be Leverage later on.
Also watched Star Trek and Iron Man, though I slept through the beginning of the later one.

Meeting fellow fans directly after the forth night-shift in ten days might not be the best thing for my sleep patterns, but it sure is fun.
Now back to trying to understand that Hunter-Gatherer extension for Carcassonne and later watch Wall-E and whatever else catches our fancy.

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OMG Star Trek

ridicully@livejournal.com — Sat, 09 May 2009 05:53:29 GMT

While I would love to squee at length about the movie - or even finally go to see it a second time - I can't. We have a prolapsed disc to operate on once I finished my tea, I'm on call for surgeries for the rest of the weekend and my parents are in town and will want to see me at some point today.

So, before my opinion gets influenced by the bits of flist-reading I'm hoping to do in between, I absolutely loved the movie. J.'s boything who went with me to watch it on Thursday was very amused to see me bouncing in my seat, clapping my hands and silently screaming at the most random moments.

I couldn't say if it's objectively a *good* movie - my judgement of everything Star Trek can't be trusted, because it's love, not rational - but I don't think it's a *bad* movie. And really, I'm not asking for more.
I don't really care for the Spock/Uhura shipping, but even that was handled mostly ok. And the rest just made me squee. (Any scene with Old!Spock, I was grinning like a loon).

And now, off to the world of CT-scans and myelograms.

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Being quiet doesn't help me finish the diss either.

ridicully@livejournal.com — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:08:01 GMT

I have one notebook updating to SP2 in my hall (originally here because Endnote tried to eat my colleague's dissertation), another notebook next to my desk, waiting for its data to be salvaged (its pretty dead otherwise) and a netbook that I'm supposed to set up with any OS that's not Linpus or Windows.
All this in addition to my own lot of computery things.

I thought I decided against IT when I went for veterinary medicine.

No wonder my diss is moving at glacial speed.

Crossposting to DW for now. I've not yet figured out for myself what I want to be my main account. Or how to handle the logistics.

taps Is that still on?

ridicully@livejournal.com — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:52:48 GMT

Still around and reading. Just trying to finish the diss and as such a bit busy.
Once I hand it it, I expect babbling to happen.

Onward!

Elections often make me resurface here

ridicully@livejournal.com — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:22:07 GMT

These Hochrechnungen are ... interesting.

All of the SPD's predicted losses more or less evenly distributed between Grüne and FDP? Sure, why not.

Having voted three weeks ago, I didn't pay much attention to the news in the last few weeks (that's about the only way I can cope with having to vote only one year after the last election, in addition to the other two elections this year) but that's certainly ... fascinating.

ETA: Difference SPD:FDP in my hometown? 1.9%
I did not expect that.

ridicully@livejournal.com — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:04:50 GMT

O.o. And a big thank you for all the vgifts!

Greetings from the 'netless dessert

ridicully@livejournal.com — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 12:55:56 GMT

I wish everyone a very happy new year!
I'm stuck without internet in the new flat until the 6th. I'm also still sick - something I started the night after I returned from my parents during my night shift. \o/ fantastic timing.
I'm much better now - no fever any more - but still coughing very impressively. Maybe it will keep tonight's patients away.
And now: moving cartons. Yay.

ridicully@livejournal.com — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 12:26:14 GMT

It's a day late here, but anyway, I'm wishing everyone a

FROHES FEST !

Survived the move, now: family

ridicully@livejournal.com — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:36:42 GMT

At Tegel, waiting for the plane to Frankfurt. Have managed to get a notebook, a netbook, a Palm, an iPod, an iPhone, a camera, two external harddrives and assorted cables through security (modular packing is the key!) and got caught without a ticket in the U-Bahn (if their trains would leave on time or there were more working ticket machines, this would not have happened *grumble*).
I've managed most of the moving buissness as well, only the desk and the sofa left if I really chuck the commode of the devil, which I'd really like to do because that thing is *heavy*.
I've once again learned how great my car is for moving. It's seriously impossible to move with that car and not love it.
Now, on to the plane and off to the madness.

Hate moving!

ridicully@livejournal.com — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:55:00 GMT

Room dissasembled and mostly packed up, most presents bought, three quarters of the laundry done.

I've now taken my bed apart so many times, that I have favourite parts in doing it. Or least favourite parts.

The next move *will* be out of this country (it better be!) and as much as I like the bed, I'll be glad not to have to move the thing again.
(I only brained myself once this time! I can learn! But not that IKEA tells us it needs two people to put that thing together. That's just ridiculous.)

Sure I can do that

ridicully@livejournal.com — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 09:02:06 GMT

All right. It's Saturday, 9:45 am, and my plane leaves Monday at 12:15 pm.
In between now and then, I have to:

Buy presents for my father, my uncle and about five friends
Do the laundry (five loads, give or take)
Move from my current flat to the new one

This, of course, is not only completely doable, but not at all stressful. At least that's what I tell myself.

In between I also should pack my bags for the week at the parents and figure out a way to get 26 GBP to London.
This might just prove to be the most complicated item on the to do list. I can pay the membership fee of the RCVS via credit card without any troubles, but paying this registration fee for a continuing education course can only be done via cheque (which no bank in Germany provides any more) or direct debit (which is only possible from the UK). I think I'll resort to just putting cash into an envelope and hoping they'll accept it.

Other than that, I'm only at skip=250 on the flist, don't have to work for 8 days and feel amazingly mellow.

I like my job, I really do

ridicully@livejournal.com — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:04:40 GMT

Cleaning the eyes of a sedated fox at one in the morning (while not being on duty even) makes at least for good stories.

ETA: The mangy fox (and when I say mangy, I really mean *mangy*) at two I could have done without though

So, what have you been doing the last week?

ridicully@livejournal.com — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 11:24:25 GMT

Why, reading five years worth of daily webcomics of course.

That and working/helping the night shift on four days in addition to the daily grind.
No, I no longer wonder why I'm behind on my flist, my diss and life in general.

But it's fun! I may need to stop doing it ever two months or so with a new comic though.

Heating. We wants it!

ridicully@livejournal.com — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:32:24 GMT

For some reason the radiators in the part of the clinic where the offices are located have broken down.
Of course this happens during what the media insists on calling a 'polar storm'.
It's kind of funny, really. Everybody has left the office and seeken refuge in some remote room of the clinic proper where temperatures may reach such tropical hights as 21*C

It's talking! Wonders never cease!

ridicully@livejournal.com — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:26:49 GMT

Amazingly enough, I'm not just thinking about writing an entry, no, I'm actually doing it. It's slightly worrying.

Because it's been a while, I think it's time again for my usual spiel: I am not a big commenter. I'm very OC about reading all the personal journals on my flist. I just never comment. It's just the way I do things. I'm not good with the whole social interaction thing so I only read. I doubt that's going to change any time soon. Just for everyone's information.

So, with this once again out of the way, what's new (or old as the case may be)?

I caved and am now the sheepish owner of one iPhone. And it's much too fun a toy to be allowed.
Like half of my flist I'm really happy with Merlin (It sneaks up on you! First it's only amusing and suddenly you're sqeeing without knowing why!)
I've developed an obsession for underweight, pointy-faced guys and can't seem to shake it. Of course there are worse things to be obsessed about. But no obsession would be a nice thing too.
I'm not talking about my dissertation. Talking, thinking, acknowledging...
I've managed to get Prof. Bitch from more or less tolerating me to flat out *hating* me again. Understandable and worthwhile, but not very sensible.
I'm probably moving next month. I hope. I've heard nothing since signing the contract but they said they'd be on holiday until December,...
I've once again run into the problem of where to get references for applications. I'm aware that this will happen as long as I've not left that clinic, but leaving the clinic is kind of the point of sending out applications.
I still like lists. Obviously.
Saw the Rocky Horror Show yesterday. Riff Raff isn't supposed to have that hot a voice, I'm quite sure.
The more I'm ~~working on~~ ignoring my diss, the less coherent I get (I know I've been saying that for years, but I feel it's really true). And I have to write quite a lot of essays in the next year to (hopefully) earn a CertAVP at some point. This doesn't bode well.
I don't know what else to write, even though my head is full of stuff. I just can't make it make sense when put on paper.

Waves hello

ridicully@livejournal.com — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:40:59 GMT

LJs back again!

Drive by entry

ridicully@livejournal.com — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 15:36:43 GMT

Still alive, still pretty dead because of cold and second night shift in three days, still endlessly behind diss (don't ask about flist).
STOP
Behind on thanks for birthday wishes (am very grateful if slightly overwhelmed) as well as wishing happy birthdays to others (mea culpa kriski :( )
STOP
Cautiously happy about results of USian election even though wary of charismatic politicians.
STOP
Emphatically not happy about having to vote in state elections in addition to federal elections next year (thanks a lot Ms Ypsilanti).
STOP
Waiting for new Merlin and very close to buying an iPhone (The /-Meeting connection)
STOP
Beyond coherent thought, off to read now.

"Wasn't it two thirty once already tonight?"

ridicully@livejournal.com — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:58:24 GMT

Working the night shift on the night the clocks are turned back really sucks.

On the other hand, now I have new Merlin waiting for me.

Life is full of unexpected bonuses.