It's A-OK to Shout at Your Computer

I've been just sitting here an hour writing my latest masterpiece, only to have it erased by a bug in the blogspot system.

Bollocks.

Oh well, here we go again.

I started school today again after a two week "holiday," which I spent entirely at work. It was surprisingly hard to set my brain to the student-mode after having it set for work-mode for 14 days.

Having a logistics exam today was not helpful. I think I blew one of the three essays, but the 125 multiple choice questions were surprisingly easy. Of course, I'll know for certain how easy they were only after I get the grade.

I also managed to be persuaded to sit the final exam on Friday. I'm taking the attitude that I'm just going to see what it's like. If I don't pass, there'll be another try next September.

If I do pass, however, I'm going to give myself a huge pat on the shoulder. It seems more and more likely that I do graduate come December. I still haven't quite decided whether to take as my final module courses in environmental or personnel management. I could do courses in both, but I feel that concentrating on either one would be better.

I'm in grand sulk at the moment. There was supposed to be a SCA event in May, but the rumor has it that it'd been cancelled due to some trouble getting a site. So no strutting around in medieval clothes for six months, the next event is now scheduled to July. Bollocks at that too.

On the lighter note, I have come to the conclusion that I am a stern, no-nonsense human being. A woman of my word. I swore to myself how out of this months pay not one cent would go to buy me music in any form, so the first thing I did on Friday when I got the money was to walk in the Free Record Store to get me a copy of Rammstein's Keine Lust single. But seeing as the Live aus Berlin DVD was on sale, it must have been some sort of heavenly influence on my life.

I have now solved many a nights entertainment problems, you see, the DVD comes with all the songs subtitled in German. This, ladies and gentlemen, is pure genius at work. Rammstein karaoke!

Another valuable marketing lesson was learned a couple of days ago when I, overly excited about my shiny new Megaherz album, registered in their fan forum. Their singer, Mathias Elsholz, welcomed me there, with no less than eight exclamation marks, a smiley and a pun. Their actual singer! I couldn't believe my eyes! That's good marketing, that is. It's a heartwarming experience to know that your hard-earned money goes to someone who appreciates it and also thinks it's nice that I like their music. Apparently all the members of the band are more or less active in their own fan forum, up to and including their former singer, and hopefully also their as-of-now former drummer (who was replaced by their even more previous drummer - does anyone else smell Spinal Tap here?).

For a while I thought that it would be cool if Messrs Rammstein would communicate with their fans, but seeing that there are currently over 7000 registered users on the herzeleid.com forums alone, the poor boys would not have time for anything else. "You have 2753876434 new messages!"

I prefer them to concentrate on making music, thank you all the same.

All right, I have to start cleaning as it is my turn to host the weekly Fabulous Three gathering tomorrow. My apartment looks as if it had been attacked with a dust thrower.



Lessee, a link.
All Calvin and Hobbes comics ever made:
http://stfunoob.com/calvin_hobbes/
Aaanndd... Since the darn event was cancelled, some consolation in the form of cooking:
http://www.godecookery.com/