Month: May 2014

The Wedding Feast

Das Hochzeitsmahl Every year, there are a couple of weddings to which I’m invited. And while I’m usually happy to oblige (as generally, I get to see some friends getting wed), the wedding meal isn’t something that I particularly look forward to. Aside from the fact that food is brought on in such abundance that there’s no way to even get close to finish what’s being placed in front of you, the food isn’t usually the kind I favor. Generally, it’s meat in all kinds of fashion, with maybe a few other side dishes of breads and a few vegetables making a few exceptions. Being more on the veggie side of eating, me and wedding meals, therefore, don’t often make a good combination! Jedes Jahr werde ich zu ein paar Hochzeiten eingeladen. Und während ich gewöhnlicherweise gerne zusage (immerhin sind es in den meisten Fällen Freunde von mir, die den Bund des Lebens eingehen), auf das jeweilige Hochzeitsmahl legen ich normalerweise keinen besonders großen Wert. Einmal abgesehen von der Tatsache, dass das Essen in solchem …

Blame It On the Internet

Schuld ist halt das Internet! After a several month hiatus I’m back in business. And just so you know: Nope, I’ve not been hiding. I’ve just been battling what’s called SPIC-disease, aka Severe-Poor-Internet-Condition disease. Yup. I call it a disease because it certainly needs intensive care and treatment if there’s ever to be a cure for it (though we’ve been informed that the powers that be are trying to work on it; we’ll see about that). Fact is, that right now we share our internet connection with tens of thousands of  students of whom many only have one goal as soon as class is out: crowding our limited internet space and slowing down everything. For me that means that I only have a very tiny window of when I can actually access my wordpress site (the one that allows me to create posts and then upload them to the internet). This window of opportunity begins to phase out by around 10 a.m., and once the afternoon rolls around, things have deteriorated to a state of …

Journaling Café: Work & Jobs

Ideen für Schreiber: Arbeit I’m back in business again! Or at least I hope I’ll be able to manage a bit more blogging again. Been busy finishing up my studies, but I’m nearly done now, so I think I might dare getting back to this little corner in the web again. Bin zurück im Einsatz! Zumindest hoffe ich, dass ich es schaffe mal wieder ein bisschen mehr zu bloggen. In den letzten Monaten hat mein Studium mich zu sehr in Anspruch genommen. Aber damit bin ich nun fast fertig, weswegen ich einen neuen Sprung in meine kleine Welt des Bloggens zu wagen. We’ll start off with the journaling café, and I have prompts and a little layout to inspire you again this week. Wir fangen mal wieder mit der Schreibstube an, und ich habe Anregungen und ein kleines Layout um euch diese Woche damit neu zu inspirieren.   And here is the sample page: Und hier ist meine Beispielseite: But while I had to take a break from this blog for a while (the internet …