WE'RE GOING TO VIENNA!!!

Now I need to go out and BASK IN THE BERLIN-WIDE PARTY. EEEEEEEEEEEEH!

I am very conveniently sick with angina and have to stay home until Friday. My head is clear *knocks on wood*, it's just that my throat hurts like a bitch.

...Writing time! :D



Tonight is the semi final between Turkey and Germany. I'm really curious as to how that's going to pan out - I don't doubt that we'll win, but how are the fans of both teams going to react?

My bet on the final: Germany-Spain, and I'm actually not sure who could win. (sorry, shiny_crystal!)



I want to reach the 7,000 words on the fic I'm working on today - just another 3,329 words! *headdesk*

3,671 / 7,000 (52.4%)

hp_rarities has had its reveal. I wrote a pinch-hit for opheliet:

Inebriation
Lily/Sirius (main), Regulus/Sirius. NC-17. ~4,300 words.
Lily would hesitate to call Sirius Black her first love. She would call him her first, most magnificent fuck, maybe, or her first experimentation, but if it came down to it she would deny any sort of emotional attachment.
Pay attention to the heavy adultery warning!


Soccer/football. Quarter final yesterday:

Germany : Portugal
 3 : 2

Who would have thought??? I totally didn't!

After the match, all of Berlin was a huge party zone, partying, singing, drunk fans clogging the streets, blocking traffic and public transportation. It was... amazing. Our victory in Monday against Austria, a meagre 1:0, had been very disappointing, so to see us return in this manner and win against Portugal was... god. Just great.

[ETA: Just watched Croatia-Turkey, and holy cow, we're up against Turkey? Fucking hell. I'm scared of what'll happen on Wednesday at the semi final! Berlin has a huge Turkish community, so... Eep.]


Work: is making me unhappy. I don't like our four new people at all. I feel like they're looking down on me because I'm only 19, and sadly they aren't people of intelligence; that I feel kinda superior makes me feel bad, but I can't help it. They say stuff about things that are a) ignorant and b), in response, make me defensive about my own beliefs. I don't think they see me as someone who can actually have a somewhat informed conversation about any topic of importance, and that makes me both furious and self-conscious. Bah.


To-do for the weekend:

• go through the spn_j2_bigbang fic (of 66K!) I've been sent to work on
  
• Snupin fic: write ~1.5K; find beta
  
• Wordlessly (aka the SPN fic o' doom): post-beta edit #1 of part the first; bring up overall word count to 8.5K (+ ~2K)
  
• riding!AU (Snupin): edit; bring up overall word count to 7K
  
• J2 AU Summer Love Challenge: write plot outline

Plans for the weekend include: watching the other three quarter finals and going to the Fête de la Musique, one of the greatest music festivals happening all over Berlin. Which essentially means half of my weekend cannot be spent working on write-y things. :(

Man, re-writing a story from second person POV into third person POV is a bitch. Is it my fault it sounds better in second person - or that it's ghosting around in my head as second person? *sigh* But it needed to be done, and since I haven't written anything in quite some time (read: 10 days or so), I'm thinking editing is the right thing to get back into the groove.

ALSO! hp_wankfest reveals tomorrow! EEEEH! *is excited*

On a Euro 2008 related note: Yes, Germany lost against Croatia. 1:2. Who would have thought? *is deeply dissatisfied*

*goes back to half-silence*

Germany : Poland
     2 : 0

And it was by far the most exciting match of the Euro so far. I watched the match with shiny_crystal - she all in black, with a red and a yellow belt around her hips that I purchased to show my support for Germany at the World Cup 2006 with my full body; I with my Germany t-shirt, a German flag-coloured thing for my neck, and a German flag. I wish I had a camera to take photos with! Anyway, we went to a bar where they showed the match, and it was so much fun - it was full, and everyone was cheering loudly. asdfghj. I was all spazzy and bouncy the whole time!

I have the luck of living in one of the most awesome areas of Berlin - Prenzlauer Berg - and, on top of that, very close to the Kulturbrauerei, where there is a huge public viewing area. I remember 2006; after every single one of Germany's matches there'd be loud, happy people running around, singing, and there'd be cars driving around, flags hanging everywhere, honking. It was awesome.

And now it's starting again :D

*basks in patriotism*

Fandom is the perfect pick-me-up place as of late. I love you guys ♥

Germany's Next Topmodel finished today, and I do not understand the decision like, at all. Jenny? Seriously? I voted Christina would win when only three girls were left, and when Christina had to go, I voted Janina (who had been my favourite, though I saw her failings). Grrr. Sadly, I cannot even find pics and/or video clips of the girls to show off what I mean! Frustrating.

Work is boring. So boring that I don't even know what to do anymore; the "homework kids" aren't coming because it's too hot and school therefore finishes early without giving them homework. And that when I'm someone whose head needs to have something to do. I want to be mentally challenged. Someone give me topics to discuss! Today, just to do something, I talked to this one woman about my social dysfunctionality even though I didn't really want to, but sometimes stopping is kinda difficult. I don't even like that woman - she's freaking naive. I feel a definite vibe of antipathy.

Tomorrow I'm going to visit my friend with anorexia in hospital. She's been there for three weeks now; her body can function again (her heart beat had slowed down!), but she's nowhere close to getting out of this. She takes anti-depression meds so she actually, y'know, eat without totally losing it. I don't know how long it'll take until she's stable; she wants to get better, which is very very good, but it's gonna be one hell of a long way. At least two more months of therapy in hospital, and then long-term therapy when she's home, that's what I've been told so far. However, that plan can change any day. I'm worried, though less worried than I used to be. At least she's in professional hands now.


I should probably do something now, but I can't look at another application right now. I'm too tired to write, too awake to go to sleep, too unmotivated to read. Meh. I think the reason for my being this way is the fact that my friends (the few that I have left, anyway) don't have time for me :( I think I need some time out with them. Can't have everything, I suppose...


At least the European Soccer Championships 2008 UEFA European Football Championship will start in a couple days! GO GERMANY! *waves flag*

Also? Today I walked my feet bloody. What the hell.

And tomorrow is gonna be another day of heat. Temperatures surrounding 30°C for the past what, ten days? It's awesome, though it prevents me from sleeping, er, restfully. Which means my moods aren't exactly... stable. Heh. More cynicism from my side - as if the world needed that!

I should probably really go do something now. Reading it is after all, I suppose. *sigh*