Dear Blog,

I've neglected you again for way too long. I'm sorry.

A lot has happened since my last entry but I don't feel like writing much so here's a summary.

Summerholidays have started, I passed Dialectology and failed Vertaalwetenschappen which I will do again next year. Rakoo and I went to Vienna and visited Baer and Sepher which was cool, I took a picture of the Liliputbahn for Demo. On the day we were supposed to fly home we discovered someone hacked my WoW account which made me very sad. By the time we got home Blizzard returned all my stuff which cheered me up quite a bit.

I went to see the new twilight movie Eclipse with Rakoo and have to admit it was kind of boring but it was to be expected cause the third book was also the stupidest. Rakoo was very brave and didn't fall asleep once.

We found out Rakoo has to be at the Uni in Osnabrück at the same time we planned to be in Zoutelande. So now he's not coming. This is very sad, but I'm taking his camera and will return with many pictures.

Upcoming wednesday I'm going back home.
At my parents' house Alex from Canada is visiting and she'll also be going with us to Zoutelande.

Oh and Rakoo will start the legendary quest tomorrow and I get the mount when he finishes!

Super weather. And why not? These days always occur when I have to stay inside. In this very moment I should be writing my thesis in stead of this blog, but in my head I have already made what I have to do very easy and now my head is thinking I could just do it tonight in stead of right now. Bad head. If it's so easy I should do it now and then I'd have the evening to myself. But no way does it work that way. I'm going to be pushing it off awhile longer as I go shower and make some sandwiches... the usual. I'm very much wanting to start the third book in the series I discovered the day before yesterday but I'm not allowing myself. Go me! Apparently there's still some willpower left. It helps that I told Demo yesterday that he should flame me in WoW should he see me online. Now I can't go hopping around Dalaran either. And vt is plain boring. The perfect time, really.
So yeah I'll start right after this blog then for fucks sake. I MUST.

Rakoo is in Berlin this week and it's been boring and kind of empty without him. I got an sms that he's having a good time so that's good I guess, as long as he's not having too good of a time. In WoW not much is going on, we got another batch of trials, and a new girl, again! Still no LK down though, but oh well. Furthermore I have to convince Caspi that he really should come back, at least with cataclysm, and that there's also people here who still want him back. Though I guess in the end that's really up to Lorril. Note to self: convince Lorril.

Rakoo and I will once again be going to Vienna to visit Sepher, Baer and Frenzied and I'm very much looking forward to that :)

In the azshara forum they made this thread about lucid dreams, which reminds me I had one this morning. Obviously I was reluctant to get up considering the whole thesis-thing so I drifted around in half-sleep for awhile, which is where I had the lucid dream. It went like this: I was standing in line at a machine that gave out messages or tickets of some kind, don't remember what for. And it had a chance to randomly spit out a 50E bill. Which it did for the person before me. So we were like wow and I said gz. Then suddenly a whole bunch of tickets fell out and in the pile we both searched for more money until we came upon a HUGE stack of 50E bills. We were deliriously happy and decided to divide the money. Only then two 'bitches' showed up. And I say bitches because in my head they were the definition of the word, no kidding. All mean-faced and slutty dressed, you know the type. So they wanted to ninja our money but since I was just here getting in my lucid dream I was thinking I'd just have superpowers which I DID then. The think about lucid dreams is that it's real hard to make things happen the way you want them because to do that you have to envision everything to happen the way you want it. Anyway, I swiped at the one with my hand and imagined her flying across the street, and she did. Positively awesome. The other however I only managed to hit in the face and though her nose started to bleed she didn't fly away like the other one. Then suddenly I imagined confession power like Kaylin from Legend of the Seeker. Don't know the series? Well confession is when Kaylin put her hand on her victim's throat (which I did with said bitch) then unleashes her power and then for a moment her irises become all black and then those of her victims to do and once she's finished the victim is a total slave and will forever serve her until Kaylin dies. So I confessed this bitch, and her eyes went all black and then back to normal. Only she didn't appear to be my slave afterwards and I decided not to stick around and find out. So then I grabbed this other good person's shoulder and flew (yes flew!) us out of there. To the top of a nearby building. Only it wasn't a good roof so we visited some other buildings till we found one where we could divide the money in peace.

Funny about this particular lucid dream was that at one point I was so aware that I was dreaming and I looked around me seeing a world, my dreamworld, but it looked so real. And I looked down at my hands and they were there and I could move them, though my movements appeared to be abit laggy, lol. And I was thinking to myself that it was so weird that I didn't feel my pillow or my bed or anything even though I just knew I was lying in bed. It was seriously magical, I was just standing around in my unconscious somewhere being totally conscious of the fact that I was there. Suddenly made me aware what a powerful thing the mind really is.

The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven. And ain't that the truth.

Dear Rianne,

Thank you for your patience. My congratulations on a very solid final essay that has significantly improved from the midterm. I think your final essay on "Ethnicity in a New Light" seriously looks at the issues discussed by Philip Gleason, Trinhn t. Mihn-ha and gloria Anzaldua. I read it with interest and appreciate the coherent and clear exposition. Grade for the final essay: 8. Grade for the seminar: 7,5. With best regards,

Prof. dr. Paulo de Medeiros

Yay :D

You may or may not know that I live in a student flat on the 8th floor, and share this "house" with 7 housemates. About once a year we have the fire department coming through to ensure the hallways aren't blocked by anything in case a fire breaks out. This is usually the only week in the year the hallway is empty. No different this year, only this year I figured out that if for example Hugo has his junk sitting out in the hallways when they come to do their second check (they usually come on monday and then again on thursday or friday) that the whole house could be put out on the street. As in, I would need to find a new place to live. So that kind of put a new perspective on things. From now on I will be ever vigilant for clutter in the hallway, and no more mr niceguy for Hugo's giant contrabass.

It rained all day and I made way too much macaroni.

My blog is dead. Again.

I was pretty irritated the past week, I was kind of stupid to my parents which I feel bad about now and two days ago around 10 am one of my housemates was trowing a BALL around in our hallway which woke me up pretty good. It also enraged me and I've seriously been walking around with this "screw you all" mentality ever since. They finally realized we didn't need a new oven after all. I could barely restrain myself from writing an "I told you so"-reply to the e-mail that went around to suggest if it wouldn't be better to sell it on ebay.

I haven't seen rakoo in a while which makes me sad :( But I know he has important school stuff to do so I'll be brave!

There are some new people in the guild and one of them if a girl so thats got half of the guys all rattled up but besides from that nothing new. Still no LC heroic down, at least my team spirit is not the problem. It's taking Lorril a lot of effort to get everyone in the raid on time, and I gotta say I admire his input. I wonder what would happen to UndisputeD if there was no Lorril-force to drive it.

I had a really cool queens day last friday with Jorien, we drove through the city in a carriage and walked by the fair and some markets and that was just fun to do, in the evening she had to raid so I leveled my draenei on her laptop, and we ordered in. Since then I've come to lvl 77 but am now at a standstill because it looks like nothing is going to happen anymore when I reach 80 (besides from arena which i suck at) so I lost all motivation to lvl.

The screenshots and streams we saw of Cataclysm are very promising. Looking forward to release :)

Some seriously awkward moments in the kitchen today with this girl who's temporarily living in Lina's room which is across the hallway from me. I was defrosting some bread in the microwave when she walks in. "Hey, do you surf?" (I was wearing Wieske's surf t-shirt) so I say "No my sister does I just got the shirt because I went along" she says something like "ahh okay" and I was just standing there not knowing what to so I said "yeah.. s'nice" she goes "what?" and I say "Nice, getting free clothes" "ah yeah" ... (silence) and the stupid thing was she wasn't DOING anything like seriously did she follow me into the kitchen to have words or something? Thankfully my bread was done then so I said "well have a good meal if you're going to have lunch" while she was inspecting some century old announcement on the bulletin board, and just left. I mean that a reasonable thing to say right? She was in the kitchen after all. Anyway the conversation may seem fine from what I wrote but it wasn't. It was weird, it can't have been pleasant for either of us, I'm sure of it.

For the rest I religiously worked on my essay all day with (in my opinion) good results! Hail Jewish American Literature!

I found a ladybug on my window and wanted to use a glass and a card to put it outside safely, but then I accidentally squished it with the glass so I flushed it down the sink. I felt guilty.

This weekend was easter and I have in fact been searching for eggs. I searched for and found a bunch in WoW but that's no surprise. What was weird was that while I was moving the TV so I would be able to watch Animal Planet from my desk I accidentally dropped an egg carton that was sitting on the TV (don't ask my why it was sitting there it was a convenient space at the time) and one egg that was still in it dropped to the floor. Or at least I could hear it fall (didn't sound like it broke) and I assumed it was on the floor. But when I looked for it later I couldn't find it. I've moved the whole fridge which the TV is sitting on around and found nothing and its really bugging me since if it's just gonna vanish I just know when it starts to rot its going to stink. A lot. So the great egg hunt is still on. Though I read on the internet eggs can stay fresh for up to 28 days so I guess I have some time!

Well I guess I'm just generally not that kind of person who updates their blog at regular intervals, so what.

Ok so just to come right out with it, I'm not exactly worlds best WoW player. I know I suck at pvp even though I like BG's (espeically with friends who I can follow around). And even though I used to be (I think) quite ok at pve (you know back when naxx was still for 40er groups and during black temple times and such) I somehow managed to earn a reputation as a, well, there's not really a nice way to put this, a screwup. I was thinking about how this has come to pass and I guess it's not so much that I make a lot of mistakes, it just that when I do, they're memorable.

Like last week when I was 10er ICC for the first time. (First time! so give me a break okay?)
Anyways, I did okay I think, sure I died a few times and I managed to set off some spirits at lady deathwhisper (but I lived!) but overall the run was not that bad. Still all I'm hearing this week is how fun it was when I died at Sindragosa.

So yes I died, but Onishi died as well, and bearmaster too if I remember correctly. It's just that when Sindragosa does this pullthing where we're all supposed to run away, I thought I was being extra skillig by blinking away and that was working just fine, until I accidentally blinked in the wrong direction and found myself at the wrong side of Sindragosa. Since she was doing her blue-dmg-shit under her belly I thought I'd carefully get back to the other side by walking in a WIDE circle around her... head. So off I went, thinking I was being so careful not to receive any cleaves. Yet I forgot (or may just havent even known though it makes sense) that she does this breath. As fate has it she breathes right as I'm strolling across, ciao. They all thought that was just hilarious.

Another stupid thing was in pdk25 with my hunter when anub was (thankfully) almost dead I suddenly noticed I wasn't shooting any arrows anymore and then I see in the top right a red bow icon. So my gun was broken. How the hell does it happen that my gun is kaputt when the rest of my equip was just fine? I should've kept my mouth shut of course, or just pretend to have a disc as I know caspi did once. But I just hat to blab about it the minute it happened. So funny, not :(. Now I'm the hunter who runs around without a weapon!

Kind of abandoned my blog for the last few weeks, too busy lvling and getting equipped I guess! But here's an update. I reached lvl 80 and went crazy on heroics, just doing nothing else all day. I also instantly started doing dailies at the tournament, the oracles and the netherwing drakes. (cause i just had to have one!) I got my first mysterious egg and no doubt I will give birth to some cheese rather than a green protodrake this sunday :( but you never know!

We did a city-run last week, so I also obtained a black war bear. Was a lot of fun and abit too easy considering the battles we had at lvl 60 and 70.


Waiting for the deeprun tram :)

Late night sunwell, after we did tempest keep (just for the phoenix that didnt drop) we bathe in the light of muru!



And last but not least, the big netherwing egg search has finaly come to an end! wee!

Well!

So much for Aion. I actually made it to lvl 49 (!) before we'd had enough and our group kind of drifted apart (read: didn't feel like logging in anymore) and obviously it's no fun to play alone so we just kinda quit playing altogether.

Shamefully I must admit that I am now back to square one: World of Warcraft. The guild with most of my friends in it(Undisputed) had switched servers so now so did I, and I took the opportunity to start over from level 1, mainly because I had no clue of what I was gonna do at lvl 80. Also it turned out to be a lot more fun to lvl compared to Aion. And by "fun" I guess I mean "faster". I started last week I think and I'm already level 71. It's still fun. So far so good, the new random dungeon thing is definitely a plus.

Undisputed is pretty successful and I find it entertaining to listen in to their stressful encounters with various heroic dungeon bosses. At these times I don't miss raiding at all!