i just stumbled across this headline in an agricultural magazine (for work):

“Josefi Ausstellung in Tuntenhausen”
(st. joseph fair in fag-ville)

another village that will never have a song written about it.
(referring to that “whose line is it anyway”-episode)

noted down yesterday, 2005-03-15 16:45:

isn’t it wonderful – you’re standing at the train station and are listening to “mozarts piano concerto #25″, and just when the final solo is about to begin, an unbelievably loud train goes by and isn’t gone until right before the end of what should have been the solo…

 

minor linguistic challenges: when asked if i knew the ticket-fee for a trainride, i responded “i don’t know, i never take the *bus*.”
later, when i got home, i said “and for *postage*, i paid …” (i was, of course, referring to my trainride again)…

i joined my parents in watching the opening ceremony of the world-famous vienna opera ball for some minutes, because …well, they had all the pistachios.

so anyway: one of the moderators just talked about the flower arrangements, and he said something like “and those who have advanced botany knowledge, like me, will recognize the beautiful anthurium flowers”. he didn’t stress out “like me” right after knowledge, but it clearly was his point.

now, what the self-proclaimed “professor of botany” doesn’t know is: anthurium looks *a little* different from the flowers that were actually shown: strelitzia reginae, a.k.a. bird-of-paradise flower.

and besides, what makes the viennese ball so famous? it’s just a typical ball, isn’t it?
and who the whell would pay 16.000 € (SIXTEEN THOUSAND euros) to be in a loge?

i can’t believe i forgot to publish this post from early january:

do you think my doctor is trying to tell me something?

isn’t prescribing “retard”-capsules a little too manifest?

maybe i should stop asking every doctor i come across stuff that i always wanted to know.
you know, the kind of questions that make doctors go “hmmm, i’m not sure. [long silence here] maybe, it’s because …”

lately, when i told my mom something medical, she asked “did you ask the doctor or did she tell you herself?”. but it was more of a rhetorical question, because the answer was pretty obvious…

in heimatseeker’s “Reason # 47 to move to New Zealand” she states that a google-search for “bush coronation” (“bush krönung”, in german) returned 145.000 results on january 20th.

it’s 175.000 by now – my site adding another search result ;-)

“have i started “excessively” using quote signs?”
“i “think” so!”

yesterday, stefan and lisa came over to play risk (the board game).
we never actually played risk, but instead started with scrabble, and played the settlers of catan later on.

scrabble turns out to be the number one word-creation game!
(i wonder why it took me that long to figure it out :neutral:)
how about “sont” for example? i think it’s the perfect name for …well it’s definitely not a perfect name. but i really like it – it sounds so impressive!
i think my hamster will be named SONT (in capital letters). if i’ll ever have a hamster, anyway…

the name is ideal for use in sentences like “wow, SONT stopped the bank robbers and returned the money all by himself!”
and this is how easy you design a movie: we’ve got a hero (SONT, the hamster) and the main story line (SONT stopping a bankrobbery) – that movie could take on … even the original star wars trilogy!

well, enough creativity/stupidity (the line is thin) for today.

seems like i spend a lot of time on my own blog :sad:

i can feel my energy flowing again.
when i’m outside, i just can’t stop looking up (or into the distance) and smiling. some people are already looking back strangely, like they’re not sure whether i’m laughing at them or not.

speaking of laughing: today, when i was going by bus, i was listening to one of vienna teng’s concert-tapings on my mp3-player. i had to laugh out loudly when i heard her stating that people kept asking her “that song’s about a prostitute, right?” when she was actually singing about her college roommate. what made me laugh, though, was her comment on that story: “i didn’t really mean to run that impression about my roommate!”