Now This Is What I Call A Blue Sky

...and this is what it looked like almost all of last week! Keep it up, weather - we really get along when you're like this!

Grammar Is Important. All Right?

I recently learned from this rant about English usage, that "alright" is wrong. "All right" is the correct spelling. Who would've thunk?

Oops, I Did It Again

You'd think that after reaching the ripe old age of 24 I would have finally learned, that alcohol leads to hangovers. I'm normally a smart girl, I swear! But I somehow just don't seem able to process this little bit of trivia. Oh well, at least I can now proudly (I'm being sarcastic) say, that I've been to the Indochine in Zurich (for their Ladies' Night) and that it's pretty much frequented by the people I thought it was frequented by, but the music was better than I feared. Oh, and they charge you 4 bucks to check your coat.

Hell Just Froze Over

Roger Köppel, editor in chief and publisher of the Weltwoche, actually criticized SVP-exponent Mörgeli in the latest issue!

Don't get me wrong, I love the Weltwoche, but it is slightly biased when it comes to the SVP, especially Köppel's editorials are. So imagine my surprise, when in today's issue Köppel did not only criticize our current Bundespräsident Couchepin for (accidentally?) comparing Mörgele to Nazi-Doctor Mengele, but also deemed Mörgeli's reaction, a photo-op at the KZ Buchenwald, tasteless. I tend to agree on both counts.

Oscars

Since the writers' strike is now officially over, this means that unlike the Golden Globes ceremony earlier this year, the Academy Awards will be held in all their glory on Sunday, February 24th, hosted by Jon Stewart of The Daily Show. As some of you know, I try to watch the telecast every year, eventhough it airs sometime between 3 and 7 AM CET and is spiked with random coin collection commercials.

As I hope to start working full-time sometime this year, this will probably be the last time I can afford to watch the Oscars live (since I don't have to go anywhere early Monday morning at the moment). So I'm looking for anyone who'd be willing to join me - it will be fun, I swear! Alcohol! Snacks! Making fun of everyone and everything that appears on screen! It will be like christmas but with lots of celebrities and excruciatingly long acceptance speeches interrupted by the Academy Award Orchestra of Doom. Oh, and I'm sure we'll get standing ovations for poor Heath Ledger during the "Geez, all these people died last year?"-montage. And if you're the gambling type, we can bet on the winners?

You will laugh! You will cry! You will occasionally doze off during the boring musical numbers!

'Nough said.

Watch This!

Since I'm boring all my friends with it, I might as well tell my lovely reader(s) (Hi Bettina!): if you ever get the chance, watch The Amazing Race! It's fun! 11 2-person teams race around the world! For a million dollars! If they suck they get eliminated (or illuminated, shoutout to noo and Simi!)! Most of the time, at least! They have to do Detours! And Roadblocks! A Roadblock is a task that only one person may perform (or made before - again, shoutout!)!

It's AMAZING, see?

Good News!

Looks like the writer's strike in the States is pretty much over! If you want to know what that means for your favourite shows, you can find a good overview here.

And sorry that I haven't made good on my promise to blog more - I'm just not feeling very inspired at the moment!

Taa-taa!