In an attempt to fuel my insanity, nachanca was so kind to put together a table of 120_minuten challenges for me:



Let's see where that takes me.

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Today with actual, real content!
Because, guess what I didn't tell you because I'm a horrible human being: I'm in Japan!
The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science granted me a stipend for spending my summer sweating, melting and researching at Nagoya University!


So, that's where I've been the last two weeks: Nagoya, Aichi prefecture, Japan.
Before that I spend an orientation week in Kanagawa, close to Tokyo where I should have learned Japanese. Should have.
Instead I took some pictures, ate a lot and cursed my fish allergy.
And because I'm lazy and tired (I blame Japanese working hours...) I'll just leave that small collage here and pretend that pictures say more than words. Love you, guys!

Today, another installment of: PhD Comics is - surprisingly - a disturbingly accurate summary of my life:


No seriously, that's me right now. With two deadlines looming around the corner. Nervous breakdown in 3, 2, ...

In other news: I finally started playing LEGO Marvel Super Heroes and it... it is a LEGO video game: It's easy to play, endearingly focussed on small details (seriously, I'm three levels in and in love with the Deadpool cameos and the way LEGO!Black Widow still crushes peoples heads between her tighs) and incredibly playful and silly. - Basically, it's everything I wanted.
And it proves that my laptop is slowly becoming decrepit. *sniff*

But between the deadlines, coming home not before eight in the evening and running around as a toy super hero, I haven't even watched the new Teen Wolf episode yet. And I'm not writing either, my inane AUs are eating me from the inside!
(And I'm still chronically over-tired. Go figure.)

Also, I can't sign up for a 120_minuten team because LJ won't let me.

So... I'll try watching Teen Wolf. And if I fall asleep while doing that... More power to me. =D

So, I had plans. Using Livejournal more, writing more (nyx_chan bribes me, so that really isn't that much of a problem) and all that incredibly grown-up stuff.

Then, life happened.
My own personal "update LJ until" deadline is today, but honestly, all I can say is:

Because everything else I might be tempted to say will either end in an angry rant or incoherent, bubbly exclamations of 'Shiny!' and 'Oh my god!'.

(And on a completely unrelated note: I started jogging again, and apparently, I actually enjoy it? Confuses the shit out of me.)

Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.

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• Still not married to nyx_chan. WHY?!
• Paper is finished and submitted. Farewell-Donauwellen were tasty.
• SICK. Spend the last two days whining on the couch. Think I'll go back to that immediately. My head and my sinuses are trying to kill me, I know it!

And since I'll be moving this week (if my sinuses let me) and haven't even looked for a telephone company by now, I just want to say good-bye! See you later!

Hello everybody! I'm back. ...And kind of didn't tell you I was away in the first place.
Hands up, who noticed? ;)

Yep. I was on direly needed vacation. And there's learnings:
• Mallorca is kinda pretty. Even in proximity of tourist towns like Peguera. I like pines and rocks and the sea.
• I apparently like hiking holidays better than beach holidays. Who would have thought?
• God, I needed that vacation.
• Never ever read Stephen Fry on the beach. The beach is for swimming and regular turning around, not lying on your stomach and being totally engrossed in a book for hours. I learned that the hard way.
• Don't trust Deutsche Bahn timetables. Just don't.

And that's that. Now I'll switch on the TV, find something to watch and blissfully ignore reality just for a little longer before I'll go back to work and papers and estate agents tomorrow.

Soooooo... my (hopefully) last calculations are running, my advisor is (hopefully) reading the first 48 pages of my thesis, the appendix is complete and I still want to submit next week.

To Do
• write convergence analysis
• wait for last results and make pretty diagram out of them
• write material property analysis
• write summary and outlook
• get my head out my arse and actually do something!

Really. I want to have this thing finished in a week and I'm sitting here, sleeping late, reading (bad) fanfic and waiting for the sky to fall or panic to hit.
...And I don't even mind, because... yeah, no panic whatsoever. How's that even possible?

So, dear flist, who wants to talk me into a panic attack? I really could need one right about now. (It makes writing so much easier...)


In unrelated news: The contract for the PhD position exists. But I only get it, when I have proof I graduated. And I can only get a flat with the contract, so I guess.. Yeah, more procrastination, since I can't do anything right now. Yay!

Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with me?

So langsam neigt sich alles dem Ende zu. Die Prüfungsphase (noch 1 Monat), meine Motivation (keine mehr), mein Studium (noch eine Abschlussarbeit). - Der richtige Moment also um anhand einer YouTube-Recherche herauszufinden, warum zur Hölle ich tue, was ich tue.

...Will sagen: Mein Mitbewohner hat "Materialwissenschaft" bei YouTube eingegeben, meine Professoren lassen sich gerne filmen und ich mich leicht amüsieren.
Also, das Werbevideo meines aktuellen Studiengangs mit wunderbaren Gastauftritten meines Chefs (oder des Chefs der Person, die ich für gewöhnlich Chef nenne) und diversen Doktoranden aber in viel jünger. - Zu Deutsch: Hey, ich kenn die alle, für mich ist das lustig. :)

Und sehet die Highlights des Saarlands! Ernsthaft, wer würde nicht hier studieren wollen?!


Weitere Gründe, warum man dringend ganz allgemein Materialwissenschaften studieren sollte: Es ist für Superhelden interessant.
Außerdem haben wir es nicht so mit Kreativität oder Humor. ;)



Und WTF?! Holy Musical B@man!?! ♥