My List of Unread Books

Instead of writing the Grey’s review, which I know would take me more than an hour, I decided to put together the list of all the unread books on my shelf. Lined up on the shelf and where there wasn’t enough space to line up, there are a couple of stacks. Since yesterday I’m officially out of shelfspace and really have to consider to buy another bookshelf, even though I have no idea how to put it. Until then I probably can use part of the only half filled DVD rack. I usually note the date of purchase on the first page of the book, for my own reference. I knew that one of the stacks contains books I bought quite a while ago and probably won’t read for another couple of years. If I ever read them at all. But I just can’t throw them away (you don’t throw away books!) and I’m too lazy to sell them on ebay or to donate them to some charity thing. I probably got them at some charity bookfair years ago :-)

I don’t know why I buy books when I still have so many books I haven’t read yet. I guess, because the new books sound so interesting and intriguing. I actually read quite a few of the newly purchased books within a couple of months. But every once in a while I have kind of a book shopping spree and the books just pile up, because I can’t read as fast as I buy new ones. For example, from the seven books I read in 2009 so far, there were 5 new ones and only 2 out of the collection of unread books. But until I have a bigger apartment and more space for bookshelves I should really refrain from buying books on a regular basis.

Anyway, here is my current list of unread books. [G/E] indicates the language and it’s interesting to see that most of the books are in English. I don’t know if I actually buy more English books or if I just read the German ones earlier… The last purchased on on top, the one at the bottom was purchased in 2004 :-)

Passing Time (With a TV Show Meme)

Did I really not write a post this week? Well, there wasn’t really much to write about, but that hasn’t kept me before :-) Today I’m procrastinating once more, but I’m sure I will get the dreadful things done later tonight. I’m planning to watch hockey tonight, because I can sleep in tomorrow. Which also means I have a lot of time on my hands tonight before the game starts. And because of that I can use the time during the day to do the unimportant, but much nicer stuff. I know it probably would make more sense to get the dreadful tasks out of the way so I can spend the rest of the day enjoying the nicer stuff. But it just doesn’t work like that for me. Never did and probably never will. I’m too distracted by the nicer stuff and I obviously need the pressure and the nagging voice in my head which is adding to my bad conscience, before I actually start working on the dreadful things. But then I do it and it works for me this way.

During my university years I spent my days enjoying the sun in the garden and spent the nights studying for tests and it always worked out fine. But back then I scheduled enough time for studying, which means I started to do that weeks before the test. And didn’t try to pull of writing a 25 pages paper within 2 weeks. Of course that couldn’t work out, wether I write during day or night time. I have more than enough time to write that paper again now and I will definitely go back to working on it this weekend. Maybe even tonight…

But before that I will write my review of another enjoyable and wonderful Grey’s episode later tonight and first of all  I will post this TV show meme which I picked up on another journal.

Pick your five favorite TV shows (in no particular order) and answer the following questions. Don’t cheat!

1 Grey’s Anatomy
2 The West Wing
3 LOST
4 Brothers & Sisters
5 Private Practice

They came to my mind in the very specific “most favourite / 2nd most favourite” order… I couldn’t help it :-)

Tonight’s To-Do-List

At the moment it seems that all I do is go to work (which at least is pretty easy going during the easter school holidays) and work on my termpaper. There is nothing noteworthy happening, so it’s not that awful that I don’t have the time to write a blog entry. At least I find the spare seconds to twitter every once in a while.

Just in case you’re interested… Among catching up with all kind of blogs and tweets and news sites and tvshow gossip sites the plan for the next 10 or so hours is to…

• take a shower [I was supervised during my Kieser workout today and ended up more sweaty than usual. I wasn't prepared to take a shower there and I would have gotten all sweaty on my way to the trainstation anyway :-)
• clean the dishes
• watch LOST [I prefer to do that during daytime, because I'm a wimp]
• mail the drafts of some parts of our election programme to my fellow Greens
• have some kind of dinner
• edit and upload my daily project365 photo
• continue to read termpaper literature
• continue to write termpaper
• look up the call numbers of aprox 40 books in the online catalogue of two different libaries (for the 2nd termpaper) [did so for one of the two libraries]
• watch the first game of the Boston – Canadiens QF series at 01.00 AM [I know it's crazy to stay up for something like that especially with all the things I actually have on my agenda, but I will be multitasking... kind of and I will use the time till then to work on my paper]
• iron some laundry, while watching the hockey game
• catch up with the stack of newspaper and unread magazines, while watching the hockey game
• sleep :-) Not too long though because I have to use the day off tomorrow (and the weekend) to work on the termpaper

If I Just Had The Time…

I’ll follow Jules’ example and just give you a list of all the topics I would write about if I just had the time. Topics like…

• being insanely busy at work, when I expected a calm and unstressful day
• the weird feeling of going back to a real university campus for the first time since 2002
• the small panic that I might run out of time to write a decent termpaper till April 19th
• the even bigger panic that I’ll have to write a second termpaper after that, due May 3rd and I haven’t even thought about that yet
• the guilt that’s setting in because of the two things above
• my inabilty to stay out of “The West Wing”. I’ll have to limit my visits!
• an insanely crazy fandom-related thing I have going on, which will probably lead to doing something crazy in a couple of hours. But it’s all for a good cause, so…
• taking part in Project365
• my need for chocolate
• Tim Thomas

Until I will find time for a real blog entry, you might want to keep an eye on my twitter account. Because I’ll find the few spare seconds to send a tweet every once in a while :-)

The Good & The Bad of Week 6

Well… it might tell you something about my week, when there only is another list at the end of it. Although I have to admit that I probably could have used my spare freetime (late at night) better than with just visiting the White House. But at least that’s a pretty entertaining and relaxing way to spend my free time. So entertaining that instead of the one or two episodes I ended up watching four. And I was tempted to watch a fifth and finish the 2nd season with that, but I’m reasonable and postpone that to another day…

The Good…

• I started with Kieser Training again
• Harry Potter audiobooks read by Stephen Fry
• McDreamy wants all of Meredith’s “crappy babies” *sigh*
• “The West Wing”
• Team Germany is going to Vancouver in 2010!
• I’m getting my daily (weekly, well regulary ) doses of V., the cutest baby I’ve ever seen
• I completed some of the Green politic things I wanted to finish
• I started to work on my term papers again

The Bad…

• Extremly busy days and lots of work at the office and the homeofficce as well
• I already know that I don’t have any free afternoon / evening in the next week
• I screwed up an assignment for job#2

Q & A

When I started with these questions I didn’t actually wanted to explain them, but somehow I did anyway. I guess I could have written an ordinary post out of all that just as well. Never mind…

• When will I get (back) into some kind of study routine? It’s interesting stuff, once I get myself to start reading it…
• Why do I seem to be the only one of our local Greens to actually do something instead of just talk about it? We’re talking about a great campaign thing for ages but we’re so slow in actually organizing it…
• Why doesn’t “World without End” get me hooked in the way “Pillars of the Earth” did all those years ago? The story is not bad, but… I don’t know. Maybe I’ve got too many things on my mind. And I’m only on page 220. There are 1017 more pages to go…
• How will I score on the Kieser back test on Monday?
• When will I find the time to actually cook the risotto I planned for a while now and never get around to do? In the evenings I’m usually too lazy to start cooking although there still would be enough time to do so…
• What hockey jersey shall I wear on Friday for my last Cologne Sharks game of this season? I’m really not inclined to wear the Sharks jersey, because I actually don’t want to be linked to THAT team. I might wear the Canada jersey I bought in Halifax. It’s hockey and it reminds me of better hockey times…
• Is it safe to hope, that the current multi-episode-arc on Grey’s will finally give Paddy something to do? It looks like Derek definitely has some issues with Mr. Dunn… I can’t wait. There is a very promising promo here. There is also another spoiler floating around that makes me squee in delight, although it might just be a misunderstanding by some TV Guide writer. You can read about that on the elevator

My Movies and TV list of 2008

Her’s another one of the 2008 media recap posts. The movie and TV list of 2008, sorted after Movies in at the movie theatre, on TV/DVD and all the TV series. [G/E] stands for German/English. There will be a new system on the current “I’ve Watched” page.

My Book-List 2008

It’s time to start the 2008 retrospect posts. I don’t know if I will also do a “best/worst moment” sort of thing, but I can definitely do this one about the books I’ve read. I won’t manage to finish another one this year, so I can already post it. And I’ll have to keep better track of how many books I’ve bought in 2009. And I will definitely keep track of the ones I’ve read in a slightly different way.

So this is the list of 2008, in chronological order. [G/E] stands for German/English. And there also have been lots and lots of novel-like Grey’s Anatomy fanfictions.

Books & Movies – July 2008

Books

Read

• Teach With Your Heart (Erin Gruwell, 2007) [E]
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream (William Shakespeare, 1600) + the according Cliff’s Notes (2001) [E]
• Lightning Strikes Twice (AriaAdagio, 2007) [E] (This fanfic has 670 pages, so it definitely belongs in the book section) [E]
• Shakespeare: The World as a Stage (Bill Bryson, 2007)

trial & error

• Der Goldene Kompass (1995, Philip Pullman) [G]

Movies & TV

• Penelope (at the movies) [G]
• Pride And Prejudice (DVD) [E]
• An Ideal Husband (DVD) [E]
• Spiel mir das Lied vom Tod (DVD) [G]
• Freedom Writers (DVD) [E]
• Becoming Jane (DVD) [E]
• Chicago Hope 2.17- 3.16 (TV/DVD) [E]
• Batman – The Dark Knight (at the movies) [E]
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (DVD) [E]
• The X-Files – I Want to Believe (at the movies) [G]

Whiling Away Time with the Killers Top 10

I’m a master in whiling away my time. I planned to do a couple of things yesterday afternoon, but of course I just did a very few of them. Re-Reading “Lightning Strikes Twice” is just so time-consuming. And addictive and I guess it will be in the next couple of days as well.
I decided to not go to work today, because there is no way that the really loud re-construction in the building with my temp office will be finished already And it’s just impossible to work when there is loud screeching and or hammering from the drills and jackhammers all around the office. I can’t talk on the phone, I can’t concentrate and the apruptly stop and start of the noise is nervwrecking. At least my nerves were wrecked after only 20 minutes and a cellphone call I had to answer out on the yard, where there still was noise from some re-construction stuff on the other parts of the building. So I just set up call forwarding to my cellphone and left.
I definitely have to go in tomorrow though to check the mail before I leave for my short London trip. As there isn’t anything urgent to work on at the moment it’s not a big problem to stay at home and I could use the time at home to be productive and… well, if I didn’t have to restrain myself from compiling another “to-do-today” list and instead just start doing it!

Anyway at least finally is here my Killers Top10. And it took me about an hour to figure out the flash player / addblock conflict on my firefox. Talking about whiling away time….