Scribbles in the Dark

new word of the day! (i love listening to the radio!)

die Überraschung (n) - surprise, astonishment
as in Kinderüberraschungseier aka "kinder eggs"

surprisingly, leo doesn't have any record of "raschung" as a word, which is what i was most interested in finding out. D:

ETA:

so for the past week or so, the time in germany has only been 6 hours ahead of me instead of 7, and it's been freaking me out, i kept thinking i was hearing the time wrong or forgetting how to count or something. but i just figured out what happened, and i feel so dumb: germany is already off daylight saving time, but we're not yet. (does anyone know why? isn't DST usually earlier in the year?)

just dropped off my friend chari at the airport; she's catching a flight to germany, where she will spend the next six weeks being the envy of all of us. good luck, liebchen!! i do actually want to see you blog about all the bathrooms of europe!!

but seriously. blog. pictures. do it.

german word of the day: anxious

when used to mean...

-afraid, fearful, poor-spirited, timid, half-hearted - ängstlich

-trembling, afraid - bange (zB: "keine Bange" (as noun), "kein Angst")

-alarming, ominous, precarious, risky, concerning - bedenklich

-anxious for, to aim to do, to work towards, to be keen for - bemüht (zB: "bemüht sein, etw. zu tun") AND bestrebt (zB: "um etw. bestrebt sein")

-apprehensive, careful, considerate, worried - besorgt (zB: "um etw./ über jmdn./etw. besorgt sein")

-anxious about - darauf bedacht (also: well-considered - "wohl bedacht / wohlbedacht"; intent on - "bedacht auf"; care, intent, deliberation, thought - "der Bedacht")

-agitated, disturbed, fitful, uneasy, fidgety, disquieting, fretful - unruhig (zB: to be axious about sthg. - "wegen einer Sache unruhig sein")

so, browsing itunes in german, most of it sucks, but i actually found one chick that i like!

name of... koenigwerq, i think it's spelled, although it may be koenigwerg, i don't quite know the text in itunes that well. but she has good music. she's in the schlage genre.

i also found pluesch, who's a guy, and not bad. also in schlage.

...
......and nena, who did 99 luftballoons, has a LOT of really goos stuff, and current too. yay youtube! *lol*

homework. it eats my life. *seppuku* dang it, i lost my to-do list.

spent all yesterday (and i mean ALL of it) doing a take-home physics test that was 137 questions long. ridiculous!!! then i got up at 7:30 this morning to build my model for studio. spent all of arch history lecture correcting the bloody test with sara and sarah before class. in-class free-response test in physics- finished right at the end of the period. anthro was normal, studio was cool- i was one of few people who had a model to show today, and griff actually liked it, which is cool. *proud* of course that means he gave me more work to do- it's a never-ending cycle of give and give and give. -___-

so now i'm on page.... 232 (reading 219-248)of the article we have to read for arch history. ("Lucien Febvre, "Civilisation: Evolution of a Word and a Group of Ideas," in Peter Burke, ed., A New Kind of History and Other Essays, trans. K. Folca (New York: Harper and Row, 1973)") 1000wd essay on that due wednesday. i swear we should get writing-intensive credit for that class, and sabatino doesn't know how to lecture to save his life. we can't analyze buildings if he doesn't teach us about them!!! *fumes* i'm basically teaching myself this class.

to-do:
check tuition, research "be on time" loans, scholarships
studio: model, 2+ plans by wed
anthro: read ch4, study for test
phys: homework? (plz no.)
hist: write paper!
structures: lab 2a???

why are all my architecture classes this semester so annoying? *mopes*


EDIT: on a note of much joy and win, my wonderful roommate found this, ALL FOR ME, bwahaha!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjzYlt6KUHU
"Nur fur dich" by the Wise Guys, performed live (it annoys me that i don't know how to get umlauts in html text.)

today has rocked so hard!!!!! well, technically, yesterday, but whatever- saturday. (???) yes!!!! especially since today was closely preceded by yesterday, which was also fun. i was covered in paint! up to my elbows! architecture rocks, guys. *grins*

today: slept in till eleven (woot!), then went down to the pancake social in the basement. i wore chari's clothes, because i didn't have a clean red shirt, and then i had to wear the matching pants, y'know? but i love these pants- they're wrap-arounds. anyway, the pancake social- my dorm rocks so much!!!! the guys made pancakes from scratch for our whole floor, and they were delicious. mm..... also free, which, hey, cool! then i went and took my algebra quiz- got one question wrong, which, i dunno how, i added wrong? but anyway, then lauren called and wanted some company while she went shopping. so we went down westheimer looking for the cvs or whatever, and it practically didn't exist!!!! but then we found chuy's (in houston!!!! *dies*) and it was right next door. and then we went to old navy, where i sang about cowboys while she shopped, and then i talked to don while lauren cursed at the people on the highway who wouldn't let her merge. ^/___^ we had an adventure trying to find old navy.... ended up doing something like three u-turns and a few illegal parking lot maneuvers. so, anyway, we get back just in time to go tailgating for the rice/tulane football game at 4p. again- free food. plus: band, shirtless guys w/ red paint on their chests, and people throwing other people in the air for fun. and i had football explained to me in a way that i actually understood wtf?! we won 45-7 tho, so that was cool. it's like, our third game; our first was against rice, our arch-rivals. i was totally not there for the game, but jim and his friend isaac managed to keep me there through the end by holding my stuff hostage. *glares* they're lucky they have redeeming qualities (aka sarcasm), or i might have had to hit someone in the kidney. and jim was one of the afore-mentioned guys covered in paint, so that helped. *shameless grin* then we came back and watched 'dress to kill' over a pint of ice cream. so much fun!!!!!! "you say 'erb', we say 'herb'- because it has a f*** h in it!" eddie izzard is hysterical. the best part was after the movie, tho, when me and jim and chari reminisced about germany together. *mopes* i long for my ancestral homeland!!!!! we talked about kinderuberaschung, sausages, language quirks, and the lay of the land, among other things. me and jim both have that 'no one else can understand what i'm missing' feeling, so it works out well.

but all in all, today was the best day EVER. the end. ^/___^