School is getting harder and harder. We have genetics, microbiology, biochemistry & biology right now. Biochemistry & genetics are going to be a problem, the other subjects shouldn't be. We also have to take care of some of the school's animals the next few weeks. They have goats, chickens, rabbits and guinea pigs, but my class was lucky so we got the rats. :/ I wish we had the goats they are fun. Rats are relatively low maintenance though, but because they're official testing animals there are a lot of laws and regulations concerned with them.

Oh check the genetics internet toolbox thingie:
( Aliens! XD  )

Today I checked the X-men Origins: Wolverine dvd in the shop and discovered they misspelled Hugh's last name as 'Jackmann' on the cover. Seriously, how dumb can you be?

I watched the first three episodes of Dexter. dutchxfan recommended the series to me a long time ago already and I felt like checking it out last week. Not sure if I like it though. I'll have to see more to form an opinion.

Nation X #1 will have a Kurt & Logan story. I have a Kurt & Logan drabble too. It's not finished yet though. I want it done before Marvel publishes theirs :)
Horror Vacuum? Yeah I'll be working on that too. It's just that school is taking up a lot of time right now & inspiration doesn't come easy at my parent's place.

Oh and I really like Necrosha so far :)

Friday I went to the Green Day concert at Ahoy, Rotterdam. To say it was a great show would be an understatement. From all the shows I've seen (3x Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters (@Lowlands), Live (@Lowlands), Krezip, 3x Di-rect (by accident @festivals :P ), Kane(@festival), & Within Temptation (@festival)) this was definitely the best. I love how the band interacted with the crowd. Billy Joe Armstrong pulled a total of four people on stage and even let one of them sing a complete song!
The travel was really stressful though. Probably not so stressful for normal people, but for me it was terrible. I hate the public transport especially to places I don't usually go. Lots of unexpected things can happen and I can't deal with unexpected things.
We survived though. Jeniene was so excited that it was totally worth it.
She had never been to Rotterdam or had traveled such a long distance by train. When we arrived at Rotterdam she said: Wow this is so cool, it's like New York or something! (The huge glass buildings are what gave her that idea I think.) At the concert itself she jumped all over the place, screaming her lungs out for Billy Joe, lol!

( videoclip of the concert )

Saturday I went to the Walibi World Halloween Fright Night with my colleagues from the shelter. We had a lot of fun. They're a crazy bunch of people!

Needless to say I was exhausted and slept in till 2 o'clock on sunday. I'm still not completely recovered, but tomorrow I'm going to visit Loes & Anne (Homunculus) in Nijmegen and stay over for the night. Thursday my sister and I celebrate our birthdays for our families. Friday I celebrate my birthday for friends & saturday we'll be playing Dungeons & Dragons. In between that I have to work on my school projects.

Vacation you say? Really?

I've been neglecting this journal & my flist for which I'm very sorry :(

Truth is; there's not much to say. I'm busy with school and I'm looking for a place to live on my own. I'm not sure yet to look for that place in Kampen or in Leeuwarden, but I've signed up in both cities. Leeuwarden would be nice because it's where I go to school, so less traveling. Kampen would be nice because I can easily keep working at the shelter, go to the Fantast & have family close by.

That's it actually...
I hope to see you soon with something more substantial to say :)


PS. to you non-dutchies: Friesland, the northern province of which Leeuwarden is the capital, is a whole new world. People are completely different from those in Nijmegen (or Kampen) and they also have their own language, which vaguely resembles Dutch with a hint of Danish I guess. I knew this of course, but to actually hear them talk like that in the halls at school is really cool :)

( A quick course in Frisian to show you the difference between Dutch and Frisian: )

I think The Goblet of Fire is definitely the best of the lot. It's the only one I read more than twice. It's exciting and fun to read. The Triwizard Cup finale was grand.

First of all; no grades for data analysis yet.

Sencondly; I'm officially dead right now.
After moving everything from Nijmegen to Kampen on saturday (which was hell due to the heat) I went back today to clean everything and to hand over the keys to my dormroom. I reckon I'm going to miss that place something fierce (especially when things at my parents' are messed up). Besides moving I still had to do a lot to get all my administration right for the new study next september. I think I'm almost finished with that now at least I hope I am. I'm reminded why I hate doing paperwork so much, such a hassle. Only need to go to the city coucil and change citizenship from Nijmegen to Kampen.
New chapter in my life right ahead, but first we're going on holiday to France (Pays de la Loire) leaving next friday :)

Like my subjectline says; I don't have much to say.
I'm still working hard on Data analysis and while it's hard, it finally feels like I'm making a bit of progress. The prof. complimented me (through the studyadvisor) on my hard work, good questions and the way I respond and answer other students on Blackboard. He said he's confident I will make it :)
Besides DA I already did a lot of stuff from my to do list!

A bit more fun though is the Dutch Marveldatabase! It's a wiki so everyone can join. I already made articles for Itsu and Lady Deathstrike* and I'm planning to do some more.

While we're still in the totally-random-department I'd like to mention BJ (and his bro) bought a new car, so we are perfectly prepared for our weektrip to France next month. They're going to pick it up tomorrow :)

*dammit it seems the Deathstrike article was accidentally erased. Hopefully the admin can restore it, but rewriting it won't be a problem either because I enjoy doing it :)

So the evenings without computer aren't as bad as I expected (yet). I miss checking my email before going to bed & not being up to date about things the most. Yesterday I watched War of the Worlds on tv to kill the time, tonight NCIS & reading (Batman:Hush & Artemis Fowl). Tomorrow I have a Homunculus reunion and thursday BJ will visit. All in all I get through my internetless evenings just fine :)
Today I've spent the entire day working on Data Analysis and I'm finally making some progress. This trial & error set-up takes a LOT of time so I hope it wasn't all wasted on wrong answers.
Oh I passed Developmental Neuropsychology with an 8 so that's cool :) PMB marks will probably be up this week, I hope I did just as good on that.

Today my laptop is gone for repairs. It has stripes and other troubles with the screen and since it's still in the warranty period I wanted to take care of it now.
I use my laptop as personal computer, so I definitely need to detox from the internetaddiction. Oh man.
On top of that Data-analysis is very computer based. Yeah, my timing stinks...
I'm currently at my parent's where I have to fight for every second online, but in Nijmegen I can use the uni computers during the daytime.
So sorry for not responding to your posts quickly the next +/- 2,5 weeks (max time in repairs).

I found the following note taped to the door of the corridor below mine;

Dear Joost,

I am really sorry but deaf cat is dead.
We found another cat at the shelter and took it to Doornroosje [Rock/alt. music club] to make it deaf so you can't really tell the difference.
I hope that will not be a problem.

I still love you,

Emma

WTF!!!!
LMAO!!

You know what really annoys me about myself?
The overwhelming need to defend my favorite characters or movies I like (or in this case a combination of both). *sigh*

Note to self:
People differ in taste and opinion, wolvster, deal with it!
You love it, that's ok, don't worry about what other people think.
After writing down the whole Team X/Silver Fox/Psi-borg mess from the comics in Dutch your feelings are only confirmed. They did good!



Today I'm going to visit germelientje & Frank in their new place :)