My Poor Neglected Blog

So, being one of the many, many (at least two!) regular readers of my blog must've been a blast so far in 2008. The damn christmas tree is still the top-post and it's way past January 6th. I should be banned from the blogging world!

Now let's see if I can come up with a really random post that covers this past month but in a not boring yet still coherent way.

Go see The Darjeeling Limited if you liked The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou and/or The Royal Tenenbaums. IMHO, just the soundtrack is already worth the movie ticket. Yay, I got tickets for Die Ärzte in June in Dornbirn, Austria, after I missed them in Zurich this past December! The We Will Rock You musical was pretty good but I don't care whether Zurich is German-speaking (or something resembling German, anyway), Queen-songs should never, I repeat never, not even in fragments, be translated into German. It's blasphemy!

When will I ever learn that Tequila just makes you go "I really don't want to know what I did last night" the next morning? I mean, telling everyone and their dog that you love them sooooooooooooooooooooo much can be endearing in some cases, but in others you should make sure that a) the other person wants to hear it and b) that you actually mean it. Anything else may result in a big fat awkward. The same rules apply to randomly kissing people on the mouth (not that I would ever do such a thing) and/or hugging them enthusiastically.

Teaching was a good learning experience, but it's also nice that I'm finally done this week, especially since I'm actually starting to get really motivated about starting my thesis (I know! Who would've thunk?). Unfortunately I also had to dole out a few really bad marks among the first graders which is sad, but maybe some of them do need a wake-up call? You're not in secondary school anymore, my little Dorothies!

This week seems to be "Blast From The Past"-Week as I've been contacted by random people from my past (in one case waaaaaaaaaay back in the past), in one case for a very creepy reason I will not divulge here because I'm already trying to suppress the memory. If I never hear from that creep again it will still be too soon. Seriously, what is wrong with some people?

My inner career-decision-making-pendulum is currently again swinging towards Consulting and away from legal internship / bar exam. Ask me again in April, I guess.

TK and Rachel won The Amazing Race 12. Who else cheered? Just me because none of you care? Ok then.

I really want the writers' strike in the US to be over for the sake of the writers and staff that has been let go because of the shutting down of production on most shows. But personally I wouldn't mind if it were to go on for another couple of months since I haven't had time to catch up with a lot of shows for a while and would get really stressed out if new episodes were to come out soon.

The Wildä Stiär restaurant is now officially in business, complete with new (and excellent!) cook and without obnoxious and completely useless waitress. Anyone in the vicinity (or not!) of Goldach should definitely check it out (weekly lunch menus and the À La Carte menu are now online).

As I said, this is my last week of teaching, so rest assured, from next week on posting here will become much more frequent, since thesis researching/writing is much more likely to make me search for ways to procrastinate than frantic lesson preparing! Is this a threat or a promise? you ask. You shall see, little ones, you shall see *evilsnickering*...

PS: I hereby certify that no part of this post was written under the influence of anything except fatigue. Although writing under the influence of e.g. Tequila could make for an interesting experiment, I guess. Suggestions for substance and/or methodology are welcome!