Mix mir einen Drink

For some reason I seem to have ended up on the Statistics Finland's mailing lists. Yesterday I got another questionnaire (I filled one out last year, too) on my drinking habits and overall alcohol consumption during the past 12 months. Have you any idea how difficult it is to be honest when you want to write on every page a disclaimer saying that this is not really true, I don't drink quite that much, I've just spent an entire week on a festival?

So if there seems to be a worrying increase in young women's intake of alcoholic beverages, you know why. Though I have to say that there might be a worrying increase in my personal intake of alcoholic beverages if the weather continues to be like this. It's the first official autumn storm outside, if you hadn't noticed, or are lucky enough to live in the Caribbean. Right now I want hot cocoa with rum in it, or at least a huge glass of white wine. I guess it's safe to say that the summer is over and we're facing the six months of bitter cold, sleet, rain, darkness and the few rare sightings of snowflakes called, for want of a better word, the winter.

In all of the handbooks of how to write a bestsellere are instructions on the use of cliffhangers. Here's this episode's moment of suspense and action: this morning I went see a doctor about my arm (amazingly enough; it usually takes me weeks to schedule an appointment with one. Don't know why, I'm not afraid of doctors or anything. Just your basic laziness, I suppose). Anyway, after poking my arm and twisting it this way and that and getting confused with his computer he ordered some more tests, so there's nothing more to do now than to wait. Who knows, maybe the damn thing will heal itself by the time of the next appointment - which may lie months away in the future.

Current soundtrack:
Janus: Kadaverstern
(I just found out that Amazon.uk and Amazon.de will accept Visa Electron as a method of payment. I'm gonna buy me a few good CDs and books once the money fairy visits my bank account again. Read: the next life. Janus is most definitely on my shopping list).