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Today is world poetry day, and in some cafés in Vienna you could pay for a coffee with a poem. I met with my mom and my cousin at a café after work and wrote three poems featuring coffee in five minutes each. The ability to relatively easily write silly poems and rewrite song lyrics is among my favourite things I inherited from my dad, who occasionally rewrites the lyrics of entire musicals for anniversary birthdays.
I also wanted to post a poem but I'm too lazy to pick one out, but I will post at least one sometime in the next month.

DD and I are rewatching NiF two episodes a week, which we decided on because we needed a fixed number to stop ourselves from speeding through it in time we don't have. On the one hand it's something I now look forward to every week and it's great to rewatch it together, but on the other hand there's fic I want to edit or write for which I need to rewatch later episodes and I don't want to skip ahead. Ah well, better late than never. In the meantime I have so many feelings about all the NiF characters that I seem to be able to only express nonverbally, especially about Jingyan and Liyang who are so good and deserve so much better and just *flails*

Not that I have too much drive to write right now anyway. Hopefully next week? I try to at least keep up with commenting on fic I read during the day in the evenings, because it feels too awkward to visit the Archive at work and typing on my phone is annoying.

My head is full of random stuff. Eh, could be worse, at least most of it is not negative random stuff. Stuff like plans to finally try out the "Lord of the Rings" boardgame I got for cheap over a year ago this weekend, or museums, or calendar confusion, or the surprisingly annoying decision what to wear each morning. Not that the company has a strict dress code but still. I think I want to have more necklaces. It's on my list of things to buy with my paychecks, somewhere after "new headphones" because my current ones only work intermittently, and somewhere before "new laptop" because I know me and it'll take me ages to finally decide on a new model. My current one lasted almost eight years even though I didn't treat it very well, I'm attached (and lazy.)

from leesa_perrie:

If you see this, post a poem in your own LJ today.

I cheated and chose two (because "An Anna Blume" is too much fun.) I added the English translation (in one case by the author himself) but especially the poem by Rilke (my all-time favourite poet, seriously, his poems are beautiful) just doesn´t work as well translated. (My other favourites by Rilke: Der Schwan/The Swan, Der Panther/The Panther, Der Gefangene/The Prisoner, und die Duineser Elegien. The latter are difficult, but soo beautiful.)

On a completely unrelated note, I haven´t yet found English poems that I think are as beautiful as German ones (strictly from the language.) Russian, yes, but not English. My theory is that English is not the ideal language for poems, but easier for prose. Probably nonsense...

( Rainer Maria Rilke: Spanische Tänzerin )

( Spanish Dancer )

( Kurt Schwitters: An Anna Blume )

( Eve Blossom )

I got my genre and prompt for sga_genficathon, and (after I panicked for a short while) I already have over a thousand words of notes for my story. And a very very long list of things to research... (including all the episodes I didn´t see. That means I have to figure out how to download them, something I managed not to do for years.) This will be fun!
The first prompt for sga_lfws is there, too. More fun!
...I´m going to write a lot. This is a very good thing! And I want to write more One Piece, too, starting with In Another Life, and maybe other short things.
And I have an Accounting exam on Thursday. It´s a big exam, but I will pass!
Off to study.