Random things
Apr. 27th, 2013 05:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
schneefinkIt's spring! Finally! Our garden already looks very pretty, this year we have tulips in more colours than I remember ever having before and already some blossoms on the plum tree, though not as many as last year. It's almost warm enough for skirts and dresses, finally. I bought a new dress a few days ago (black, because I need one for the choir concerts) and I can't wait to wear it properly.
Today I donated blood because they had a bus near our house. For the first time in a year or so, the last two times they turned me away because of low blood pressure and not enough iron. The nurses/assistants were very funny. Apparently in the beginning my blood didn't flow quickly enough, so they told me to think of my biggest enemy and then kept cheering me on and telling me how fast my blood was flowing. Very motivational.
Unfortunately the last few weeks there wasn't time to watch Doctor Who together with my friends. We watched "The Bells of Saint John" together and M. made snowmen and Dalek cookies because she is the best, but the others I watched alone.
I really like Clara! I enjoyed her being clever in The Bells of St. John and also that she's not chasing after the Doctor.
I liked the Rings of Akhaten, it was a very pretty episode and I love that sense of wonder, even though they could have mentioned something about what happens with the planets after the sun is gone.
I found "Cold War" quite boring, to be honest: it starts too suddenly (is this Clara's second or twentieth trip?), it's creepy but there's no real sense of danger because everybody seems strangely unconcerned until suddenly the Doctor threatens suicide practically out of the blue (or maybe that's just because the TARDIS disappearing so suddenly was such an obvious excuse and the Clara&old man interludes seemed so random), I was disappointed with their depiction of the Russians (British accent, okay, but couldn't you at least have found some actors that actually look Russian? Overall it wasn't a convincing setting), and the resolution was strange and not really satisfying.
I enjoyed "Hide": DW does creepy so well, it had a nice build-up and finish, it had actually scary parts like the Doctor being left behind in a crumbling universe and Emma screaming, it was way less detached from the rest of canon with the Doctor asking Emma about Clara, and I enjoy a bit more focus on the TARDIS and her relationship with Clara.
Monday to Monday I'm in Switzerland on a concert tour with my choir! Our first concert tour, it'll be great. Four concerts, together with a Swiss youth orchestra. We're singing Mendelssohn's 42nd psalm, a beautiful piece. I have two exams the week after, so I have to find some time to study, but I probably won't have a lot of internet access, so that should help a lot. On the other hand, little internet access and it's the first week of NHL playoffs, argh!
What do I do during playoffs? I need to sleep, and so far the only options to watch games later that I've found are not free... maybe I'll find something. I'm so excited, it's a bit ridiculous. I'm almost afraid of how sad I'd be if the Pens would go out early - but they won't, and they'll win the Cup, and I hope the Hawks lose to Lumbus because their stats look scary good. I want to fill out a playoff bracket but the last game is Sunday night and I need to leave Monday morning, I might actually get up early for this, I'm very surprised at myself.
Nobody I know offline cares about hockey, so nobody will understand my excitement ;) I can't very well get them to watch it because it's in the middle of the night, usually around 1:30 - 4am. Maybe I'll find a place that shows the Finals live? That could be fun. And maybe next year I'll watch some games in Vienna (season is over now) and get friends to watch it with me.
Post-donation-lethargy has mostly worn off, back to work! Or first dinner, then work. Actual work, not just "sitting in front of the computer", self. It's not what I thought about, but my biggest enemy is definitely procrastination.
Today I donated blood because they had a bus near our house. For the first time in a year or so, the last two times they turned me away because of low blood pressure and not enough iron. The nurses/assistants were very funny. Apparently in the beginning my blood didn't flow quickly enough, so they told me to think of my biggest enemy and then kept cheering me on and telling me how fast my blood was flowing. Very motivational.
Unfortunately the last few weeks there wasn't time to watch Doctor Who together with my friends. We watched "The Bells of Saint John" together and M. made snowmen and Dalek cookies because she is the best, but the others I watched alone.
I really like Clara! I enjoyed her being clever in The Bells of St. John and also that she's not chasing after the Doctor.
I liked the Rings of Akhaten, it was a very pretty episode and I love that sense of wonder, even though they could have mentioned something about what happens with the planets after the sun is gone.
I found "Cold War" quite boring, to be honest: it starts too suddenly (is this Clara's second or twentieth trip?), it's creepy but there's no real sense of danger because everybody seems strangely unconcerned until suddenly the Doctor threatens suicide practically out of the blue (or maybe that's just because the TARDIS disappearing so suddenly was such an obvious excuse and the Clara&old man interludes seemed so random), I was disappointed with their depiction of the Russians (British accent, okay, but couldn't you at least have found some actors that actually look Russian? Overall it wasn't a convincing setting), and the resolution was strange and not really satisfying.
I enjoyed "Hide": DW does creepy so well, it had a nice build-up and finish, it had actually scary parts like the Doctor being left behind in a crumbling universe and Emma screaming, it was way less detached from the rest of canon with the Doctor asking Emma about Clara, and I enjoy a bit more focus on the TARDIS and her relationship with Clara.
Monday to Monday I'm in Switzerland on a concert tour with my choir! Our first concert tour, it'll be great. Four concerts, together with a Swiss youth orchestra. We're singing Mendelssohn's 42nd psalm, a beautiful piece. I have two exams the week after, so I have to find some time to study, but I probably won't have a lot of internet access, so that should help a lot. On the other hand, little internet access and it's the first week of NHL playoffs, argh!
What do I do during playoffs? I need to sleep, and so far the only options to watch games later that I've found are not free... maybe I'll find something. I'm so excited, it's a bit ridiculous. I'm almost afraid of how sad I'd be if the Pens would go out early - but they won't, and they'll win the Cup, and I hope the Hawks lose to Lumbus because their stats look scary good. I want to fill out a playoff bracket but the last game is Sunday night and I need to leave Monday morning, I might actually get up early for this, I'm very surprised at myself.
Nobody I know offline cares about hockey, so nobody will understand my excitement ;) I can't very well get them to watch it because it's in the middle of the night, usually around 1:30 - 4am. Maybe I'll find a place that shows the Finals live? That could be fun. And maybe next year I'll watch some games in Vienna (season is over now) and get friends to watch it with me.
Post-donation-lethargy has mostly worn off, back to work! Or first dinner, then work. Actual work, not just "sitting in front of the computer", self. It's not what I thought about, but my biggest enemy is definitely procrastination.
